Earlier this month I spent quite a bit of time researching, redesigining, and tweaking my MailChimp email autoresponder campaign. This campaign updates users automatically in their email whenever I post something on my blog. I wanted to learn how to design a better MailChimp campaign email. I went from something that looked like the Before
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Developer Journal: Researching Web Design Portfolios & Case Studies (Collage by: Eric Hepperle Designs, 2018 | Credit: “Notebook Flat Icon Vector.svg” by Videoplasty.com; “pexels-photo-943096” by Danny Meneses)I’ve recently discovered the need for a decent web developer portfolio. Now, I’ve been aware of web developer portfolios for a while and I’ve seen some good ones. But,
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This is part of a new series I’m starting called Developer Journal. Posts in this series discuss my challenges — various programming and design topics I’m trying to figure out. I take you on my journey of learning and discovery. You get to experience my process for problem-solving and troubleshooting technical issues. While these are
ORIGINAL PROBLEM I spent hours tonight struggling with this Google Apps script I wrote to serve as custom functions or advanced macros. I adapted it from this StackOverflow post. The main issue I ran into was comparing dates. Here is my research path, and hopefully, some indicator as to why it took so long: STEPS
I don’t remember who it was for certain, but some person of authority in my life, during my adolescence told me that 2-spaces was the correct spacing to put at the end of a sentence, right after the period. I felt that was wrong, but they must be right because they had credibility in the
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I wrote this jQuery fiddle in about 5 minutes. It is really simple, but amazingly powerful at the same time. The purpose of this is to instantly style paragraph tags. Here are the style parameters: Background color: Manila (light beige-ish/yellow) Border color: Orange Drop-shadow: Yes Rounded-rectangle: Yes I want to make the code easily available
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Comcast Arris TG862 Gateway modem+router Won’t connect to ASUS X401A Mini-Laptop Problems with brand-new Best Buy ASUS laptop connnecting to Xfinity cable modem: Mom’s New Laptop My mom recently bought an ASUS X401A 14″ Laptop which was equipped without an optical (CD/DVD) drive, and for wireless network connection only. When I’m at her house, I
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07/07/12 It has been a primary goal of mine for several years to write a Windows program, in either DOS or Perl, to automate changing the folder icon in a batch of subdirectories. It is quite tedious to do this process manually, and when I am trying to customize folder icons this process can eat
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This was a company that I was in talks with and did a few interviews about building a PHP based mobile app for grocery store shoppers. I didn’t get the job so I can’t tell you much more than that. As of this 2022 update, it appears they are defunct as of 2017. via News
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Greetings folks. Tonight I’m studying on how to create a PHP Object-Oriented MySQL database connection class. This will be reusable and able to be implemented in any database driven web application built with PHP & MySQL. It uses the ActiveRecord and Singleton design patterns. I’m currently following this YouTube tutorial: Using OOP PHP to select,
