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I am a huge fan of blogging as it’s a great way to give to the community, or in my case, give back to my community. I push my teammates to blog, some have done so hesitantly, some more willingly. It’s always been a great discussion just sharing my experience with blogging. The joys. The... Continue Reading →
Debugging web apps on different browsers & devices can be tricky, but with these methods for Chrome & Safari on iOS, you'll be a pro in no time! Learn how to check console messages, use dev tools & troubleshoot granular issues with ease.
Time for my second year into Advent of Code! The first year was fun, you can see all of my challenges, answers, and thoughts here: https://davidlozzi.com/tag/advent-of-code/. If you're new to this, let me share what I shared last year: I found this neat little site, big thank you to Eric Wastl, called the Advent of Code. It... Continue Reading →
I'm going to be honest upfront, Challenge 4 of our coding challenge feels, well, less than challenge 3. I thoroughly enjoyed the 3rd challenge, so this was a little bit of a letdown. We went from making a search tool against Star Wars movie scripts to a URL shortener. Right? Not as much fun, but... Continue Reading →
I'm impatient I've done this too many times: // api call to get the contact Luke Skywalker // process a little data return ( <Card> <Card.Title>{person.name}</Card.Title> </Card> ) just to get a lovely Can't read property 'name' of undefined error. Yuck. I fire up the dev console... Network tab, is the API returning data? ✅.... Continue Reading →
I'm pretty excited about challenge 3 of our coding challenge. It let me geek out in two ways: Star Wars! We are creating a basic search tool to search the movie scripts. #ThisIsTheWay I've been on a project for the last few years creating an intelligent enterprise search tool for a client. Much of what... Continue Reading →
Here we go with challenge 2 of our little coding challenge! What's with the tomato? Well, this challenge was to make a pomodoro timer, check this out: Our second challenge gets more tangy! We'll be building a Pomodoro timer. To provide some background, the Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in... Continue Reading →
Ha, that's all I got. As I mentioned earlier, I'm going through a fun little coding challenge with my team at Slalom. Our first challenge is to create a calculator. Since I'm learning Spring Boot and specifically creating REST APIs, I get to create this calculator as an API... But first, the requirements, here's what... Continue Reading →
I enjoyed the Advent of Code this past December, a lot, especially since I was doing it with some of my teammates. There were some great lessons learned, and who doesn't love to learn? We were discussing the benefits of a coding challenge like this and decided to think up our own! Our coding challenge... Continue Reading →
This is nothing new, but something I only recently started doing. Ya know those console.logs you're using in your JavaScript code? Did you know you can style them in the dev toolbar? YA! In both your browser console and nodejs! Styling the browser console It's really that simple! Throw a %c in your console.log message,... Continue Reading →
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