... particularly when it comes to Google Chart API's.
I'm always checking in on the live versions of my example portfolio sites and I recently came across a page with a chart that was failing to load. Ultimately, I traced it back to an error in the fetched data set that had ultimately been corrected.
js file updated and uploaded to GitHub.
Back in business!
Saturday, August 11, 2018
Friday, August 10, 2018
UPDATE: LinkedIn, Portfolio site and...writing samples!
Long hot summer so far, but I've been working on a few small side projects while gearing up for the Fall.
During some of this down time I've been making some tweaks to my LinkedIn profile, including links back to my portfolio site (25HD) as well as a new collection of writing samples hosted on journoportfolio.com.
The new site gathers together a series of technical and creative writing pieces I've composed over the last few years, including several that were researched during my Certificate program at UW.
On the technical side, it was an interesting bit of a challenge to hack my portfolio site so that I could control the image displayed when shared to LinkedIn. Being a WordPress template, I had no direct access to the site meta tags, but I discovered that a third-party plug-in (Head Meta Data) would allow me to implement my own in addition to the ones that were already present. LinkedIn is pretty up front about what meta tags are necessary for proper social media sharing to their site, so it was just a matter of finding the direct URL for the graphic I wanted to use. After allowing some time for propagation, I was able to attach a link for 25HD to my LinkedIn profile using the intended image.
Fortunately, journoportfolio had this all covered, and actually provides a section in their configuration section for what image and/or text to display for social media sharing.
Again, I wanted to make mention of a great royalty-free image site unsplash.com that I utilized for the writing samples portfolio. Great selection of high-quality images, free to use with attribution. I would like to take the opportunity here to acknowledge the photographers who provided the images for my site: Nathaniel Shuman, Dimitri Popov, Alexander Andrews, Joanna Kosinska, and Jess Waters.
During some of this down time I've been making some tweaks to my LinkedIn profile, including links back to my portfolio site (25HD) as well as a new collection of writing samples hosted on journoportfolio.com.
The new site gathers together a series of technical and creative writing pieces I've composed over the last few years, including several that were researched during my Certificate program at UW.
On the technical side, it was an interesting bit of a challenge to hack my portfolio site so that I could control the image displayed when shared to LinkedIn. Being a WordPress template, I had no direct access to the site meta tags, but I discovered that a third-party plug-in (Head Meta Data) would allow me to implement my own in addition to the ones that were already present. LinkedIn is pretty up front about what meta tags are necessary for proper social media sharing to their site, so it was just a matter of finding the direct URL for the graphic I wanted to use. After allowing some time for propagation, I was able to attach a link for 25HD to my LinkedIn profile using the intended image.
Fortunately, journoportfolio had this all covered, and actually provides a section in their configuration section for what image and/or text to display for social media sharing.
Again, I wanted to make mention of a great royalty-free image site unsplash.com that I utilized for the writing samples portfolio. Great selection of high-quality images, free to use with attribution. I would like to take the opportunity here to acknowledge the photographers who provided the images for my site: Nathaniel Shuman, Dimitri Popov, Alexander Andrews, Joanna Kosinska, and Jess Waters.
Thursday, June 21, 2018
TechFair Seattle / UW Reception
Great time at TechFair earlier today!
Had the opportunity to speak to a lot of great companies from Seattle.
Looking forward to following up with everyone I met in the next few days.
Now, time to start getting ready for the reception at UW tonight!
After 9 months of hard work, I'll be receiving my certificate in Front-End Development.
Still can't believe the day is finally here.
Excited for what the future holds!
Had the opportunity to speak to a lot of great companies from Seattle.
Looking forward to following up with everyone I met in the next few days.
Now, time to start getting ready for the reception at UW tonight!
After 9 months of hard work, I'll be receiving my certificate in Front-End Development.
Still can't believe the day is finally here.
Excited for what the future holds!
Friday, June 15, 2018
TechFair Seattle
TechFair Seattle is coming up this week as well.
So much to get done!
Finally finished updating my resume this morning.
So much to get done!
Finally finished updating my resume this morning.
Monday, June 11, 2018
UPDATE: Graduating in 2 weeks!
Can't believe it's been 9 months already!
Just finished my last class and assignment last week and I'll be receiving my certificate in front-end development on the 21st!
The course was a lot of fun and I have some really great projects to include in my portfolio.
My GitHub account has all of my source code with links to the projects in the pinned repositories section.
Just finished my last class and assignment last week and I'll be receiving my certificate in front-end development on the 21st!
The course was a lot of fun and I have some really great projects to include in my portfolio.
My GitHub account has all of my source code with links to the projects in the pinned repositories section.
Friday, May 25, 2018
UPDATE: new business card design
NorthSouth encapsulates all of my front-end development and design work.
All future game and graphic design projects will still be reported here and available on my main portfolio site.
Both the NorthSouth logo and card layout were designed and created by myself.
Friday, September 08, 2017
UPDATE: Starting a certificate program at the University of Washington
I've always loved new challenges and I'm really looking forward to this one!
I'll be starting a certificate program in front-end development at the University of Washington in October.
This will be another avenue to explore UI/UX design and combine my technical and artistic background.
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