A few weeks ago, the other Web Dev Fellow and I were tasked with migrating a couple of WordPress sites. The challenge: doing it without a plugin. The Task As a Web Dev Fellow at Center Centre - UIE, we maintain, update, and edit the WordPress sites that our customers visit, We have the legacy... Continue Reading →
This week at my Web Dev Fellowship at Center Centre - UIE, I was given a task that tested my skills as a PHP developer. The Goal The ad banner at the bottom of a specific article needs to be different than the ad banner on all other articles. Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman's "Yes. And..." article... Continue Reading →
Week 2 of the CenterCentre fellowship was a rollercoaster of information. The speed at which I am learning new systems and processes is blowing my mind. I quickly got a handle on the marketing emails that are supposed to be the majority of my job in the first three months of this fellowship. I'm to... Continue Reading →
My first week at CenterCentre ended with a bang! I learned an incredible amount in five days and I'm still reeling from being given this opportunity. CenterCentre is a unique company which is part school for UX (user experience) designer sand part UX training for companies and individuals. There are several products to keep track... Continue Reading →
I'm trying to find as much time to practice PHP as I can in between holiday festivities. I had a chance to write a short word-based game in PHP for one of my Codecademy assignments. I liked it so much, I decided to create a repository to remember it! What Is This? For this Codecademy... Continue Reading →
During my job search, I had the opportunity to interview for a backend engineering position that uses PHP. Most of my experience with backend languages is in Python and NodeJS, so I decided to sign up for the Codecademy PHP course to learn the basics of PHP. I have been learning this language for the... Continue Reading →
As a teacher, I often had to track student behavior for a variety of reasons. Most of the tracking was logged on paper and, occasionally, an Excel spreadsheet. I hated these antiquated methods because they usually involved carrying a clipboard or laptop from lesson to lesson or room to room. I wished there was an... Continue Reading →
It has been a busy few weeks at my house with Thanksgiving and traveling to Virginia to be with family. I haven't posted in a while and a lot has been happening in my coding journey. Before Thanksgiving Break, I did a quick TypeScript course on Codecademy, which helped me better understand how TypeScript complies... Continue Reading →
After many months and many long days, my capstone for the MITxPro Coding Bootcamp is finally finished! I used my frontend Bad Bank website and added a backend and database to it. Specifically, I created the backend using ExpressJS and NodeJS, and incorporated a MongoDB database. I deployed my frontend and backend on Heroku and... Continue Reading →
This week, MITxPro introduced us to serverless services with Firebase. This platform was developed by Google and provides developers the ability to create mobile and web applications with services. It gives developers tools that they often would have to build themselves like fire storage, databases, authentication, and many more. For example, in today's challenge, I... Continue Reading →
Tina Collier Blog 