Eric’s Works

PHP Fatal Error: Call to Member Function on Array

Description & Purpose In this post I discuss how I troubleshot a simple object-oriented (OOP) PHP program that had array and class issues. Yesterday I began taking a course on LinkedIn Learning callled PHP: Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) because I want to refresh my OOP knowledge and fill in any blanks in my understanding. I got […]

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Code Sample: JavaScript ES6 – Scrape OneTab Links (2018)

Here is a program I wrote in 2018. It usues vanilla JavaScript ES6 to scrape and parse links on a OneTab bookmarks page and outputs the results as HTML. While the resulting JavaScript document isn’t a web page, per se, it can be copied into an HTML document and saved. (also on GitHub) /* Program

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Why I Write: Reasons for Writing and Notes on Audience

Greetings, Dear Reader, Or “Bretheren”, or friend, or self … Whatever “catchy” intro phrase I’m choosing to use today. I like “Dear Reader” because it was something my idol/influence Stan Lee, creator and writer of what eventually became Marvel Comics. My thoughts are somewhat fragmented and somewhat cohesive. I am naturally analytical — prone to

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Newspaper Clipping: ASOM at Trinity, Geneva, AL 2018-02-07 (article and photos by Eric Hepperle)

ASOM Brings Music Ministry to Trinity (Geneva Reaper)

Article Background & Summary I attended Trinity church in Geneva, AL early February of 2018. Their guests were a troupe of expressive dancers, singers, and musicians from the Atlanta School of Ministry. ASOM has locations across the US that seek to draw runaways and other disadvantaged youth and to rehabilitate them through art, music and

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Design Journal: Designing a new logo for St. Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church (SEMBC)

Last night I began teaching myself InkScape (again). This is the best and most well-known free and open-source alternative to Adobe Illustrator. I’ve tried to learn InkScape before, but the tutorials never seem to work, or are incomplete — not step by step for an absolute newbie — and often don’t include the very fundamental

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Eric's Dothan Eagle first ad: Matthews Dale Florist (2019-08-25)

First Advert Design as Graphic Artist for the Dothan Eagle

It’s official: I’m a professional GRAPHIC DESIGNER! My first newspaper advertisement I designed as the news Graphic Artist at the Dothan Eagle, in Dothan, Alabama was published on Friday, August 23, 2019. Here is a screenshot I took from the E-Edition: Date Published: 2019-08-25 Date Updated: 2022-09-06

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Project: Exporting your Google Plus page followers to CSV with JavaScript ES6

This is a side project I did based on a a question I was asked to answer on Quora. In this project, we look at possible ways to export, extract, or grab information about users from our Google+ followers page. We ultimately use JavaScript in a browser console to scape user information using ECMAScript 6

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