There’s not much you can do when rain is in the forecast. Going out is just a hit or miss, it’s either raining or it looks like it’s about to rain. I didn’t get much time at home, but ran several errands and helped with a favor. It would be nice to spend quality time at home, without distractions or excessive napping.

I don’t know what to do, and where to head. Javascript isn’t necessarily a specialty skill that I necessarily need. I guess I do enjoy building custom UI. I’ve always had a knack for front end design, starting with HTML, then onto CSS, then to PHP to build custom WordPress themes and plugins. I miss experimenting with webpages and building content to drive traffic to it. Javascript was always one of those languages that I’ve avoided, and I think I need to continue to push myself towards getting deeply involved with it.

It’s been a very long time since I started dabbling with Javascript. I had a major project come up and caused me to severally derail off the path of .js

I’m not tinkering around with it and attempting to hold myself accountable with studying Javascript. The sandbox repository is just a place where I can experiment. This blog is also helping.

Short blog test, trying to figure out what’s wrong with my origin master.

I am trying to come up with reasons to blog more. Part of the reason I want to use Hexo and Github hosting is because it gets me in CLI and working with git. I am also really trying to push myself to play with jQuery more and learn API’s. Javascript has always been a language that I’ve put off, but I’d like to start dabbling with it day to day. Once step at a time!

Recently, I noticed the discover page on my Instagram is featuring programmer’s photos. Most of the photos are examples of minimalist work stations, anything ranging from a Macbook with a few accessories upwards to 3 screens blanketed with code. Since this is a thing, I guess I can attempt to take unique photos of my own setup. The one thing I don’t have is a knack for art latte’s and a Macbook… I have an extremely outdated 2010 Intel i3 laptop and no good coffee shops around me.

Check out the IG @programmerrepublic for examples.

Well, it’s been far to long since I’ve played with Hexo. I’ve been through a few different formats on my OS drive and struggled to recover the source code. Apparently I completely forgot how to restore my source from Git repository. From what I was looking at, it looked like the source on git was out of date. Thankfully I had the repo cloned on my laptop. I was able to restore it on my desktop without a hitch.

Since it’s been so long, I’ll have to figure out how to redeploy this after generating.

Since I’ve been very busy with work the past month, I’ve fallen behind on studying up on Javascript. It’s been a while since I’ve worked with Javascript and I’ve been working on brushing up on the language. Right now I’m just playing with Codecademy, watching Coursera courses, and reading through “Javascript & Jquery” by Jon Duckett. Going from start to finish as a brush up kind of sucks, but Javascript was never my favorite language to play with. This adventure should be a fun one.

Right now, I’m working through the Javascript course on Coursera by Colleen van Lent. I’m only on the week 2 course, but so far I really like her way of explaining things and her terminology she uses to educate. It’s almost like she’s trying to apply programming terminology while educating the user what it means.

XPath - What is it?

• Primary query language
• OQL is secondary query language
• Query on hierarchical structures

What is a query?

• A query is a command to obtain a specific set of data

XPath Locations

Pages

• Contrain on context
• Contrain on selectable data

Microflows

• Constrain on data retrieve

Security

• Constrain on access rights

XPath Tokens

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// context
[] grouping of XPath
. separate module or element
/ seperate domain model elements
() grouping of functions
  [not(Title ='Introduction Course')]

Traveling is always an exciting and scary experience, personally I hate having to spend 8 hours traveling to the east coast. I have a 2 hour lay over in Minneapolis. I’ve been awake since 2am because I went to sleep fairly early last night after Easter dinner with the fam. 2 more hours until take off at Sea-Tac, just killing time by tweeting and blogging.

I think I should buy a neck pillow for napping on the plane. That will
probably rekt my sleep pattern, as if it wasn’t already rekt.