Providing insights into a career of apps and utilities that I've conceptualized, designed, and developed; complemented with developmental journeys, findings, observations, and challenges encountered along the way.
Browser Extension: Too-Much-Time This blog entry is to simply document the creation and publishing of my third browser extension now available in the Chrome Web Store. The extension was relatively light and more of a personal project to accomplish something during—and break the monotony of—my mobile app development learning curve (which is coming along nicely).
Learning: Mobile App Development – via Flutter What is … Flutter? Flutter is a mobile—and web—app development framework powered by the Dart programming language. It is akin to React Native or Ionic, and is built by Google. Dart is akin to JavaScript—but not. Since coming out of beta in December 2018, trends from Stack Overflow
Less than two years later, Chrome browser extension requests opportunity to see other code. Ever wondered how to wrap a Chrome browser extension inside a React component to allow the extension to run as a SPA? The Expired To Be: SPA version does just that. It is a React alarm component I wrote that wraps and
Where does your story fit? Novel, Novella, Novellette, Modern Short Story, Short Story, Short-Short Prose, Flash Fiction? Introducing: The Book Length Classification and Word Count Tool — Providing aggregated insights distinguishing the differences between a Short Story, Novella, Novel, etc. Comments and suggestions always welcome. Disqus comments are provided at the bottom of the article
Best of the Basics: JavaScript Informational JavaScript Informational: Best of the Basics: A full run through for entry- and mid-level developers looking for some solid fundamentals. Comments and suggestions always welcome. For those new to the language, this is my own personal introduction to the topic garnered from over 17 years of experience: I’m throwing
Popular Development Tags: Stack Overflow Starting off the year 2020 Below are the results for the most popular tags on Stack Overflow beginning the year 2020. javascript 1,931,524 845 asked today, 4835 this week java 1,626,006 585 asked today, 3235 this week c# 1,373,811 453 asked today, 2427 this week php 1,327,017 324 asked today,
After writing about 500 initial lines of code in designing a database schema for a web app, I realized I’d gone and added 150 lines of JavaScript code—for handling 30 lines of JSON data I’d written above that—all directly in my `.sql` file. I often create new ‘untitled’ documents for temporary storage, but was curious
The results of teaching my first tutoring course: Background: I took on teaching this class less than two weeks prior to the class starting. I had never taken the course before. I had never formerly taught a class before. The only thing that caught me up was the second week in my correcting some misleading
In an attempt to spice up a navigation system I’m working on, I took to CodePen to experiment with some CSS-based 3D books on a shelf. Although I believe the books turned out pretty good, I dashed the effort in lieu of a more simplistic approach. That aside, figured I would share the books I
Triple Web App Revival: Keep Track; Pick-a-Meal; Guess Right I develop web apps for continual daily training and as a way to stay productive—and because they can sometimes produce fun and useful tools to use in life. Sadly, two of those utilities, and one of my games took to the sidelines last year. Fortunately, however,
Tweet Tweet !!: The “Equation Calculator” is the best “solve for x” calculator I’ve come across: https://www.symbolab.com/solver/equation-calculator … and it takes full URL calculations https://www.symbolab.com/solver/equation-calculator/%5Cleft(x-25000%5Cright)%5Ccdot0.05%3D0.25x complete with step-by-step solutions. (#Symbolab; #Eqsquest) — Keith D Commiskey (@kdcinfo) October 17, 2019 Although learning the Solver on a TI-83 or -84 is just as helpful (especially being that’s allowed
Recently I’ve been experiencing intermittent issues in trying to use certain keystrokes in a few of my more common Windows-based applications. The two primary shortcuts I found that I cannot use are Ctrl-Shift-Home and Ctrl-Shift-End. These two shortcuts should highlight from the current cursor position to either the top or bottom of the available selection
Introducing the “Pet Ref App“: A customizable reference tool. The Pet Ref App is an all-in-one location for pet-related notes and meds. Easy to use, the web app can be used in vet offices, by students in pet-related fields, or as personal notes or school references. Now Open! As of Thursday, August 22, 2019, the
At least a few hundred JavaScript algorithm challenges after taking Harvard’s CS50 course, I realized that I use (my brain uses) a “trie” type of knowledge retrieval approach, as compared to someone who can do more of a “dictionary” type of memory lookup. That is, my recall works better when I’m creating and analyzing code
Two more freeCodeCamp certifications completed, with one more at 70%. Responsive Web Design JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures And although I’m only at 37% with Harvard’s CS50W: Web Programming with Python and JavaScript, and 23% with Google’s ‘Master web development’ courses (via Udemy), I’m considering running through another Vue series (via Laracasts), being the
Pros and Cons of Visual Studio Code vs. Sublime Text 3 Below are personal observations with the VS Code editor as compared to the Sublime Text editor. VS Code: A lightweight IDE Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Sublime Text: A customizable code editor Sublime Text 3.0 (ST3) VS Code: Pro and Cons Pro: TypeScript insights
Expired To Be is a quick and convenient way to set and be reminded of expiration dates (free and open source). New Features available in version 2: Sort your list by expiration item name, expiration date, or ‘days left’ (until expiration notification). Set a ‘backup item date‘.Easily swap out expired items with a replacement date using the convenient blue
Redux 4 > createStore > compose The Error TypeError: Cannot read property ‘apply’ of undefined [node_modules/redux/es/redux.js:523] The Problem and Solution If you’ve gone through a tutorial in which they suggest adding the Redux Dev Tools in your store.js like this: window.__REDUX_DEVTOOLS_EXTENSION__ && window.__REDUX_DEVTOOLS_EXTENSION__() But they’re using it inside of a compose(), you could receive a
Would anyone know of any good 6-12 month tech schools in the US that offer job placement? Looking to specialize in Full-Stack JavaScript. — Keith D Commiskey https://keithdc.com
As a gift to the month of April, Expired To Be is now accessible from any browser! 🙂 What is… ‘Expired To Be’ is an app where you can set reminders for ‘things that expire’. Initially only available from the Chrome web store as a Chrome browser extension, it can now be accessed from any