I will only be around for the very first part of chat tonight. Just a heads up xD
I'll be getting on around 6 - got some grocery shopping I need to do. Empty fridge problems :P
Oh fun. You can pick up where I leave off. Passing ships and all that.
I did that yesterday… That was…. fun...
classes are kickin' my butt already and it just started. "read two chapters by next class" rinse lather repeat for four classes.
How much longer til you're done"?
like done done forever? two semesters at MCCC and two years at Bucknell if I go that route.
2020?
I'm nearly at the 1/2 way mark. 5 semesters done, 6 semesters to go.
lol that sucks I couldn't deal with being in school that long after high school
gonna get mah edjamacation. Growing up I was always told I couldn't do it. Screw 'em. Doin' it! Exceeding at it! And most likely going to a well ranked university with full tuition scholarship. In yo' face.
The twenty year gap year helped xD
Honestly it's mostly five years of thumbing my nose at my late mother. If I'm honest....
I guess you were at least respectful enough to wait until she was dead. I'd rather Johanna's mom was my mom and l'm pretty open about it.
I dunno if I could have done it with her hanging over head.
cuz I gotta go when class starts (6)
I had a class with Yao. xD
are you the guy who's almost as tall as Dave Castner in a couple of the pictures?
woot!
I hadnt said boo in a bit so I thought i'd log on and say it!
o ok not you then, Dave is taller than I am and I'm 6'4
@lantech19446 what are you working on?
artificial sanity at the moment. I'm refining group policy objects and watching a video on active directory
Fake it til you bake it?
I'm outta rhymes for make but I know there are a ton more.
Fake it til you shake it?
I ought to work on Javascript on fcc but im currently working on cinnamon rolls and then I am doing an application development certificate with vb later this week along with social media stuff for a lady
the tube kind that is
sounds like a worthy endeavor. When autocorrected to en devour... which works too.
lol, for sure. I reallly need to get better at js but i just dont love it
the only people I know who love js are really just masochists xD
well, that is true.
Working on some java h.w on my programming lab. hbu ? @Lilyheart
just power through it @li3097 . If anything, you'll just get a level of appreciation for what JS can do even if you don't love it.
I got class starting soon. waiting for that while reading some textbooks for another class. What are you on? CIS112?
Actually, I think I might pack up now and head over to Jason's office to see if he is there.
What's up?
Who do you have 111B with?
hollar here if you have any Java questions Yao xD Someone might know the answer. lol
Looks like a lot of students here - are there many working/career focused devs?
We are just the chattiest right now.
I'm mid-career, and trying to add some skills to expand my options.
Well, Lisa is learning as well. Chat room does tend more towards those who are learning because of the description of this particular meetup.
Meetups are a bit more mixed.
good plan @NotTheDBA - i got outsourced and should have kept up with new skills better
Hopefully I can get out to one soon, if I can find a non-schedule conflicting one.
hey @shruthi2005
I just saw your email Yao. Moz said earlier today that he and Victor are just doing hackathons.
I am learning (i had to fetch my tasty cinnamon rolls out of the oven)
Im near the beginning of the javascript spot
Was going to go to the store, but with the weather...nope lol. It's storming pretty bad here atm.
@shruthi2005 good to know as I'll be doing a java college class starting in October or January
from this to that
select this from that
There are a few java of people here. Odds are if you don't like javascript do you want like java. Another fake it til you make it.
someone said php is similar to either c or c# - is this true?
There are some similarities between the two, but you can't just create objects like you do in pho. They have to be explicitly defined.
*pho
Stupid phone...you get the idea lol
@shruthi2005 - we meet here online as we're working on our individual projects
Now on my laptop...shouldn't have those autocorrect issues anymore, lol.
For me, I'm a little bit of everything...however, I'm primarily php, .net/c#, xslt, sql (both mysql and oracle sql), jquery, and java. I also know c and c++, but I haven't used them in a while.
well, its been nice chatting with yall but ive got to get some other stuff done.
@G7470 code master!
I'm nowhere near. Always plenty to learn
What are you all up to in terms of projects? Anything cool you're working on?
I'm working through a Udemy course on MVC in ASP.net right now.
svg, nice! That might be right up my alley since I'm quite familiar with working with xml (through xslt). What does SVG give you?
SVG - a lot less resource intensive than using png or jpg, easy to make responsive and not lose clarity, and you can style inline SVG with CSS
and animation - but I haven't worked with that much yet
@NotTheDBA nice, MVC! I went through a MVC course recently for work. I forget the company that ran it though. There's certainly a lot you can do with it if you have medium-sized applications. I like that you are able to keep the core logic and specific page logic separate from each other.
@G7470 - Yeah - it's a big ask for the jobs I'm looking for, and a serious gap for me b/c I did a lot off middle-teir/back end database before.
@ccziriak That's pretty neat. inline SVG with CSS must be a nice feature to have. I'll have to check that out soon since I'll be working on a new website re-implementation soon for work.
@G7470 I got tired of using other ppl's icons and font icons so I'm making my own icons and icon-like graphics now
@NotTheDBA Ahhh. It is a different mindset than doing back end database, but I think that once you start connecting the front-end knowledge, you'll see how well they can blend. Knowing both is a huge plus.
I like the username by the way haha
o ok, my wife used to work with a girl named shruti and we're so close to montco it was a possibility
@ccziriak If you dig around on https://css-tricks.com, I know they've got a couple of posts on SVG... I have that as a mental bookmark to check out.
@ccziriak I wish I could tell the designers at work sometimes to stop trying to be fancy with their font choices. It's frustrating!
@G7470 - yeah - hard to convince a lot of designers that less is more
@G7470 hah - thanks... I sometimes felt like I needed to remind people I was actually a developer at my last company. .. and it kind led to some social media ideas I'm starting to build up.
@ccziriak, maybe you could stop by my work and tell them that? Call yourself a consultant. :P
@NotTheDBA yeah css-tricks is a great source for all kinds of things
@G7470 :)
css-tricks is Chris Coyier. Smart man runs CodePen. Follow on Twitter.
Sorry I was away. Chatting with a former professor. Off to class
i gotta put this chat in the background and get back to work - will check back in periodically
Appears that freecodecamp is down right now. Bummer :( I was going to work on that tonight.
It's disabled atm
something on their twitter an hour ago.
they are working on it.
Well - since that's down...I'll be back in a little bit. Going to get some dinner together.
So, when working with branches... I have the a master, and two conception branches, branch 1 and branch 2... Some new code added to branch 1, then switching to branch 2... branch 2 now needs to reference code from branch 1. Is best practice to merge branch 1 changes back to master, then pull down to branch 2, or pull changes directly from branch 1 to 2?
grr typos - two conceptual branches
From my experience, if branch 1 has been tested successfully, it should be merged with the master and pull those changes down to branch 2. Now, this is assuming that the master isn't the production branch. If it is, and branch 1 is not supposed to go into production yet, I would suggest cloning the master branch into a "test" or "UAT" branch, and do the merges/pull downs from there.
That way, the integrity of the branches are fully kept, and you're not questioning if branch 1 or branch 2 are "accurate".
@G7470 thanks, that makes sense. Since it's basically a practice project for me, I ended up merging 1 in to master first, but creating a "test" branch from master sounds like a good approach in general. (I spent the last few years using TFS in a single-developer environment, so branching is not my strong suit).
Gonna call it a night. Gonna try to make it back next time.
And you're welcome. I've used both git and tfs