Small Brain Connected to Big Brain

As of right now, my desk top is connected to my laptop. This may be hard to believe, but for the past nine months I have been working on my laptop and transferring files from laptop to desktop with a thumb drive. For reference I refer to my laptop as 'Small Brain' and my desktop as 'Big Brain' and I had tried in the past to link small brain with big brain using a 'work-group' in windows 7 but for reasons I never resolved, the connection never worked. Then I bought a new wireless router. After setting up the router I was able to connect big to small brain and now I can even save files from one system to the other like using an external hard drive.

This is big for me. Small brain is my main interface, a lenovo think-pad T420, and is not able to handle things like After Effects, heavy Photoshop files, and Maya is simply out of the question. When I'm developing things with Sublime and testing them in Chrome the ram use does not allow for smooth screen capture with Camtasia.

With most of my web development being done on small brain I need to backup to the toshiba terabyte external drive connected to big brain and now I can do that without cables and thumb drive transfers. This is making things smoother in my workflow so that I have less to worry about and that's always good. It's funny sometimes how small things can make such a big difference.

Cheers.

Jon

Learning Web Development Update July 26 2015

There is a lot that has happened in the past couple of weeks. I have purposely kept family and work related matters out of this blog but I do have a family life and a regular 9 to 5 job, so on top of my web development studies there can be a lot to get in the way. I have been very busy lately.

Javascript by Example chapter-1 Final.

In the book Javascript by Example Second Edition by Ellie Quigly at the end of the first chapter there is a short series of questions. This is my answer to those questions.

1. Describe the life cycle of a Web page. - The life cycle of a Web page involves the items that make the page exist. Those things would include the user (not stated in the text), the browser that communicates with the network via HTTP, the network that holds the url or address for the page being called, the server where the page or documents information files are stored, the server module that is a software framework responsible for retrieving the information about the page from the server to provide an answer to the call from the browser, and finally the external files that may or may not reside on the same server such as a database or images. 

First coding from Javascript by Example

This is more or less just a test to build a workflow of capturing code from my text editor Sublime text 2 and posting it into pages. The code is from page twenty of Javascript by Example. Here the code uses the document.write method to add an h2 html tag to the document.

Thanks for viewing.

Cheers,

Jon

Learning Web Development Update

July 11, 2015  

Learning front end development is not something that happens instantly.For me this process has been enjoyable and also frustrating. Currently I am learning javascript by reading a couple of books and doing the examples from the text.

Javascript is challenging but not impossible. More recently I'm able to find the answers to my problems with js on the mozilla developers network at this web address: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

Sacrifice

The world is full of things to want, but a person can not have it all. There is not enough time in the day to chase all that the world has to offer. Some times a person may even have to let go of things that they deeply love in order to move forward, and that can be painful.

As time passes people become an accumulation of the choices that they have made in their lives. The things we choose today, become the threads of our memories that weave the fabric of our lives. When one sacrifices a thing in their life, or lets go of  something in order to have something else, there is something lost for something gained. This is the very nature of existence, because one lives, they are not dead, up is not down, black is not white. Sacrifice is not a bad thing, it is consciousness happening.

The consciousness in all of us wants to choose, it wants to make decisions that propel us forward through our lives, choice is life, the absence of choice is confinement, punishment, even death. Sacrifice is simply a part of choice, and a person will choose, therefore, a person will sacrifice. Do not fear sacrifice, but evaluate what is being given up and what is being gained. Always move towards that which is greater, that which builds upon the other, and steer clear of that which destroys, or removes choice.

In the world, all parts must be played, there must be the winner, and the looser, the tyrant and the liberator, the wolf and the sheep. This is the world we are making with our choices, sacrificing what could have been, for what is. Know your place in it all, and you will know sacrifice.

Cheers,

Jon

July 4th update.

Happy 4th of July. On this holiday weekend its time to write down where I'm at in my quest to become a Front End Developer. There is some great news here:

1. I have successfully completed the entire Front End Development course track on teamtreehouse.com.
2. At this point I am beginning to grasp Javascript and being able to write my own programs.
3. I have a solid outline of actions that I will take in the coming months to achieve full competence with Javascript.

What inspires you?

 All people  have things that drive them, things that keep them moving forward. Sometimes when  a person is  out there chasing  dreams or attempting to achieve a goal, that person can lose sight of why they are making the attempt.

This is why it is good for a person to be able to define what it is that motivates them in the first place. By understanding the reason that the individual started the effort, that person can revisit the reason in times when the effort of achieving  the goal has obscured the inspiration for why they started.