Funemployed.

Seriously, let me try to get a blog running again.

It's always good to have some music to boost your morale on a Wednesday.

I had my last Web Development Immersive (WDI) class last Friday, so I am officially a WDI grad but I am by no means (not yet) a qualified Web Developer. This is also the main reason why I want to reboot the blog so I can keep track of my own progress without overwhelming myself with the Trello Board. It's ironic cause when it comes to To-Do lists I'm not very tech-savvy and I definitely prefer writing tasks out by hand. For some reason, I feel more connected to those tasks and because I actually allocated a good 5 minutes brainstorming a list of things I need to be doing, I feel more obligated to actually get those things done.

Here's a recap of what happened in the last 3 months. I completed 4 projects. I started out working with baby technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to develop a stable friendship with JS yet. JS is almost like that cool-ish group of kids you see at school. You occasionally have to work with them but at the same time you aren't exactly included in their clique. And yup, JS feels that way. No worries, as time goes on I shall be able to comfortably write lines and lines of JavaScript.

My last project encompassed 4 different technologies and AngularJS was actually my favorite framework to work with. I admit I still get confused with the point of building apps with the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node). Nonetheless, as a web dev that wants to focus on Front-End Web Development, I really need to be able to tackle one of these frameworks. It's embarrassing if I can't even tackle Angular. It's not easy but because it's so powerful, there is a lot of different areas to cover.

This last project, which I will be uploading a page about it shortly after I get done with this blog has been a fun yet frustrating one. I think one of the reasons why it's so frustrating is because I am still unfamiliar with the ability of AngularJS and of course, it was almost impossible for me to write my code DRY. Oh, I also wish I checked out Angular Material instead or just ditch a Front-End Framework in its entirety because Angular and jQuery shares no love and I ended up writing a bunch of CSS just to style the page I want it to look (should've used Sass and gulp.js as a compiler, there's always next time!). But here is is a snippet of some Angular code because I just discovered how to post a code block.

var app = angular.module('BookstoreApp', ['ngRoute', 'BookCtrls', 'BookServices', 'mm.foundation', 'angularPayments']);