Learning A Bit

Category: Education

  • Finally, a post about wordpress…

    This post is work related, and as you can tell by the title, relates to wordpress. On the work blog, we had social media sharing buttons. One of the bosses used an SEO program to scan the site, and the social media buttons returned less than favorable data. (I am purposefully not mentioning the site,…

  • Back at it…

    It has been a while since I’ve posted, and there is no good excuse. In the interim, I have completed a couple more courses on Udemy, but did not find them to be very compelling. The topics were interesting, but the takeaway was only mildly beneficial. (Was it the teacher, or the student?…) Either way, I want…

  • No Replacement for the Real Thing

    If you have read this blog before, then you know I have done plenty of tutorials. With this practice, comes plenty of repetition. And while in the middle of the tutorial, I understand what I am doing. But once it is completed, I am left with an overall understanding (which is not a bad thing…

  • Moving Forward

    In an attempt to move forward with my aspirations in life, I have set up an Indeed profile, and set my LinkedIn profile to “looking for positions.” I have come to the conclusion that one of things I have always had issues with is selling myself. By nature, I am one that does not want to…

  • Talking about git. Again

    Sometimes it takes a few times to do something, or screw something up, for it to sink in… Today we are are going to re-hash the importance of git, or of any version control system. And more specifically, using it properly. I may have mentioned my app, AlertYoSelf, that I have on the Apple App…

  • More with Udemy and Python

    Another tutorial has fallen before me!!! This time, I have taken down REST APIs with Flask and Python. This one was more enjoyable than the previous course. I felt it was more on point for the description, but we also went down a possibly “unneeded” rabbit hole. (These opinions may be coming from my inexperience as…

  • Udemy and a MySQL course…

    Last night I “completed” The Complete MySQL Developers Course on Udemy. It should have been called “The Complete MySQL and PHP Developers Course”. It involved a LOT of PHP, that is a path I am not ready to travel. Quotes were used around completed because I didn’t attempt to fully comprehend the PHP portion. I get the concepts…

  • Manual Labors

    Yesterday I added an aspect of learning that has gone unused for far too long… I tried something new away from the computer! Crazy, right?!?!? I installed a garbage disposal. And part of me actually enjoyed it. I am not a homeowner so I would not have to deal with these kinds of issues. But…

  • La Petit Errors

    Let me say, there is probably no such thing as a tiny error. The devil is in the details. And apparently the bane of my existence… Recently, two tiny, major errors caused me to waste time on items I should not have. The first error involves modifying a tutorial. For project details, you can see it here.…

  • Completion! (Mostly…)

    Looking back over some the items I have been trying to learn, I have decided to narrow my focus. It has been getting waaaaay too broad. Primarily, I am cutting out data analytics and Docker for now. I need to figure out how to use the current tools well before jumping in to specialty items…