I’ve seen jQuery requested a lot in job descriptions. I’ve also seen it when I add the scripts to use bootstrap in a project. And, I’ve also seen a bit of the syntax of jQuery. jQuery syntax: $ (document).ready(function( ){ $(“#div2”).find(“*”).css({“color”:”red”, “border”:“5px solid red”}); }); Why does it keep popping…

Decided to revisit an old SPA project. Everything works alright. Click an item and it pulls up the images and data associated with it. Click another item and it’s all replaced with new images and data associated with that link and so forth. …

A while ago I did a technical assessment/coding challenge and thought this would be pretty easy except I didn’t have a clear understanding of what ‘set’ and ‘list’ meant. Is ‘set’ just the concept of turning it into 1 singular object by putting everything in curly braces? If everything is…

In a previous blog, I explored scripting languages and shell/bash scripting. This exploration was spurred by “scripting” being thrown around in job descriptions which made me ponder what little I knew of “scripts” and “scripting” in the programming universe. …

A couple of weeks ago, I was working on something and had one of those ‘Aha!’ moments where something made such profound sense that I told myself I should explore it and write about it. Unfortunately, I don’t remember what I was working on or what that ‘Aha!’ moment was…

Some software engineer/developer job descriptions list knowledge of ‘scripting’ as a requirement. What exactly does that mean? I can deduce that scripting means to write something, in this context, code. But what kind of code? The only time I’ve seen ‘script’ come up in my coding projects is in the…

I’ve never had a CORS-related issue until just recently when I was working with JavaScript. Then again, I haven’t dealt much with CORS in general. My only recollection of even bumping into the subject was by exploring the Gemfile in past Ruby projects. I think it comes with the initial…

In previous blogs, I’ve tried to clarify what an API (Application Programming Interface) is and define the components of a RESTful (Representation State Transfer) program. Now, I want to combine those to talk about a major concept that I’ve seen repeatedly in my job search: RESTful APIs. My main takeaway…

REST is for the weak. Just have to code, code, code long into the night, right? No, REST (Representation State Transfer) is a programming standard used in many languages for organizing ‘routes’ and making them reusable. A ‘RESTful’ system is “stateless and separate(s) the concerns of client and server” —…