You may notice that this blog has been lying fallow for a while. That’s because I took the opportunity to go back to university, and finish my B.A. in English! It was a great experience, and now that’s done I’m…
Continue ReadingAdventures with React and Redux: Making a User Management template
Over the past two weeks, my coding efforts have been spent trying to better understand React.js and React-Redux. This is what I have to show for it so far: Doesn’t exactly look like much, but that’s because I’m building this…
Continue ReadingWhat I’ve Been Up To: December 2020 Edition
The job hunt continues… In the meantime, I’ve been continuing work on my CMS project, and making good strides. I’ve expanded the modal functionality to include modals for authors, moderators, and admins. Coming up is functionality to add books, after…
Continue ReadingBack to Basics: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love PHP
My current personal project, a simple Content Management System (CMS) designed for hosting serialized novels, has been through several iterations and technologies at this point. I started out with this project early in 2020 with a PHP-based solution, let the…
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As with any personal blog, regular updates have been lacking, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been coding! Over the past few weeks, in addition to my ongoing job hunt, I’ve been working on a nifty little Content Management System…
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Well, I’m finally back from bootcamp! …the full-stack web development bootcamp, that is. A twelve-week intensive course that gave me a solid grounding in most of the important web technologies and practices. It was tough, but fun, and I would…
Continue ReadingAdding a Dark/Light Mode Switch to Your Site (using CSS Variables and JavaScript)
My last three posts have been rather focused on functionality, so now let’s switch gears a little and discuss how to implement a quality-of-life CSS feature… offering an easy choice of a light or dark mode for your site. This…
Continue ReadingUsing JavaScript to Preview an Image Upload
If you’ve read my last two posts (most recent one here), you now know a way to upload and retrieve an image to/from a mySQL database. The examples provided, however, are pretty barebones. There are a lot of quality-of-life features…
Continue ReadingHow to Display an Image Blob from a mySQL Database (using PHP)
In our last post, we discussed how to save an image – as a binary large object, or blob – into a mySQL database using PHP. In this followup, we’ll be putting that image to actual use as we retrieve…
Continue ReadingUsing PHP, How to Save an Image to mySQL as a Blob
Recently, I was working on a personal project that, due to its nature, was best served by saving a handful of images in a mySQL database along with my other data. I spent quite a while researching how to do…
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