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A Not Real Place
The other night, I made another step in the journey to learning python, virtualenv has been achieved! Virtualenv is a python version of VMWare or VirtualBox. It allows you to create a virtual environment on your local machine or server and not have to worry about interfering with your base configuration. For reference, I installed…
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Bitten by Python
Yesterday, I completed edx’s Introduction to Python for Data Science course. If I may pat myself on the back, I received a perfect score! I audited this course, I did not sign up for the certificate. I will admit, this was a bit easier than I expected, it was completed over the course of about 3…
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From the Beginning
I started a new tutorial, The Complete iOS 10 Developer Course by Rob Percival on Udemy.com. It is essentially a recap of his previous course, with the updates for Swift 3 and iOS 10. I made a commit of the infamous To Do List on Github. There is nothing particularly spectacular about this commit, except…
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An Admission of Guilt
I have only recently looked up what it means to hash a file. I know, I know… I should be banned from ever being able to download or create anything, ever again! Not to sound like a total noob, I knew it was a file verification system, I just didn’t realize how EASY it was!…
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Parse Server Defeated
I have hit another stage of feeling like I have accomplished something. I now have my own Parse Server running. It also has a dashboard and cloud code. Plus, (wait for it…), it is also has background jobs!!! The jobs turned out to be considerably less complicated than I thought. It may not be a “proper”…
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Why Documentation is So Important
Or why a lack of it could be deadly. A few months ago, I was helping a friend with a project. We were looking for a proof of concept, and didn’t want to build EVERYTHING just to see if it was a good idea. We found out about Company X, and their new product might…
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Time Flies…
Wow, it has been just over 2 months since my last post… A lot has happened since then. I have actually started looking for a new job! Instead of complaining about my current situation, I am doing something about it. I have not gone dove into the deep end yet, but I am getting wet,…
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Hard Lesson Learned
Sometimes we take things for granted… Often times, it is things we have already completed. Especially in coding. I may have mentioned this before, but version history can be your friend. Only if you invite that friend over, give them some pizza and offer them a drink. If not, version control is just as effective…
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Cells aren’t just cells
I was making a table view controller with custom cells. The cells needed to have an image and a new title. There are tutorials of how to subclass the UITableViewCell, but for some reason I didn’t want to go that direction. Then I remember a little app I was playing with where this was accomplished…
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Polishing the Wheel
I am “making” an app with a log in screen, and using Parse as the back end, though this works for any login situation. I wanted a simple way to dismiss multiple view controllers using only code. The key word is “simple”. For some reason I was being stubborn and didn’t want to use a navigation…