Category: thoughts

Integrating JS, specifically JQuery via AJAX, was not as much as a challenge as I expected. I had plenty of trouble with the JS coursework. It didn’t click like ruby. There was too much abstraction everywhere. I was passing functions into functions from other functions that had a value in them, at least I thought…

You can find this app here: https://github.com/srolandmarshall/party_planner_app/ While last time I did somewhat of a live code of my project, this time I spent a majority of the time coding rather than blogging. While this makes this recap blog a little more difficult, my ability to work within Git and keeping to small changes was much…

While this has probably been the longest time I’ve spent on a segment of the program, this is when things finally started to ‘click’ inside my head about how websites work. I’ve set up local environments to work on HTML and CSS before, but working with a local database was something I never knew how…

Writer’s Note: This was a live blog of my experience writing my first piece of software completely independently. If it looks like I trailed off in the middle of a thought… I probably did. I’ve tried to sew it all together to make it seamless but this project took place over the course of a…

This is a really fun thought to have, because the first reaction is: “Uh, it’s not?” But that’s not true at all. In fact, OO in general is a mirror of life itself, especially once you learn of the meta-programming aspect.

Frankly, working with HTML is something I’ve been doing on and off the last 15 years. When I was a bored young teenager, I had my own Geocities domain which allowed me to create my own webpage full of stupid video game facts. Mind you, I had no idea what a stylesheet was (though neither…

The truth is, I’ve been here before. I was a senior in High School in AP Computer Science. It was my favorite class by far, simply because I got to play on a computer for a majority of the class. At the end of the year, the top two students in the computer science class…

Readers’ Note: This, like much of my writing, was first posted on The UConn Blog. Listen: I know this a website called “TheUConnBlog” and nothing I am about say ostensibly has anything to do with UConn in the slightest. But we’re all here because we’re sports fans. And for the most part, everyone reading this…

Sports fans like comparisons. It’s a way of making sense and applying literary fortitude to an activity that essentially is 10 men playing with a rubber ball. It’s easy to compare this team to our 2011 victors. An experienced, Cousy-winning point guard carried his team on his back as a lanky swingman found his rhythm…

A man’s wallet will tell you a lot about him. There are the almost Spartan-esque money clip owners, whose wallets are a vessel of efficacy and efficiency. I would be the opposite of that. For those of you who have seen Seinfeld, I have what you would call a “Costanza Wallet.”  It’s full of mementos…