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...
Hahaha yeah, guess so :P
classes are kickin' my butt already and it just started. "read two chapters by next class" rinse lather repeat for four classes.
that sucks
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?
ouch
I'm nearly at the 1/2 way mark. 5 semesters done, 6 semesters to go.
to much
Haha that's not too bad though
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
Haha that's awesome!
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.
lord knows a degree is not necessary in this industry.
I dunno if I could have done it with her hanging over head.
hi all
yea
Hey caryn. How is your day?
Wuz good pimpette
good @Lilyheart how are you doin?
Caryn, imma send you a facebook message
cuz I gotta go when class starts (6)
oh geez - now I gotta open FB :)
Hey :) I am Yao
YAO!!!!!!!! <3
I had a class with Yao. xD
Yes we did ! Good times
Hey Yao
are you the guy who's almost as tall as Dave Castner in a couple of the pictures?
yao hasn't come to a meetup before. It's his first time!
woot!
Sorry I don't know who Dave Castner is, but I am 5 7
hi Yao
I hadnt said boo in a bit so I thought i'd log on and say it!
Hello :) !
o ok not you then, Dave is taller than I am and I'm 6'4
hey @Yensedzro
Hey @li3097 \
hey
@lantech19446 what are you working on?
David was my partner for the final project.
hi @li3097
Hey @ccziriak
Hey lisa. What are you up to?
artificial sanity at the moment. I'm refining group policy objects and watching a video on active directory
Fake it til you make it?
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?
if you shake it to much you're playing with 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
cinnamon rolls?
yep!
the tube kind that is
like the edible kind?
lol, ya
hehe - much more fun than JS
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
ya never know with food related javascript libraries xD
lol, oh I know
the only people I know who love js are really just masochists xD
I'm having more fun lately with SVG and using inline SVG on the web
oh ok, good to know!
what are you up to @Yensedzro ?
gotta run and pick up my car bbs
I'll prob be gone with you get back. Have a good night Jon
wow @lantech19446 youre quite strong!
lulz
well, that is true.
you too @Lilyheart
seriously i might be gone by the time you get back too
ttyl @lantech19446
aww ok well I'll ttys
Hello, everyone.
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.
hey @NotTheDBA
I got class starting soon. waiting for that while reading some textbooks for another class. What are you on? CIS112?
First time with MontCode - wanted to check it out.
Actually, I think I might pack up now and head over to Jason's office to see if he is there.
CIS 111b I'll take 112 next semester.
Hey Randy.
What's up?
Who do you have 111B with?
Welcome Randy
tell me it's K Martin xD She's the best.
Yes !
ty
AWESOMESAUCE
It's been fun week 1 and I enjoy it a lot
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?
Thanks Lily :)
I think it's just us two who are students.
We are just the chattiest right now.
I'm done school and launching new business if that counts
Yeah, that counts. :-)
Adam (G7470) is working.
hehe
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 to know, thanks @Lilyheart.
good plan @NotTheDBA - i got outsourced and should have kept up with new skills better
Hi everyone, Im Shruthi new to this group
Hopefully I can get out to one soon, if I can find a non-schedule conflicting one.
hence the going back to school thing
hey @shruthi2005
hi
Hi, @shruthi2005 - I'm also new.
Hello
I just saw your email Yao. Moz said earlier today that he and Victor are just doing hackathons.
Hey all!
I am learning (i had to fetch my tasty cinnamon rolls out of the oven)
Im near the beginning of the javascript spot
HI Shruthi
hey @G7470
yes, I definitely need to plow through js
Was going to go to the store, but with the weather...nope lol. It's storming pretty bad here atm.
hi @Lilyheart @NotTheDBA Im from java background
@shruthi2005 good to know as I'll be doing a java college class starting in October or January
I'm .NET and SQL; building toward adding some MEAN stack.
i know a bit of sql
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.
lol, ok. good to know. I kinda was afraid of that
PHP/MySQL here - and lots of front end/design, and some JS
i seem to love php
I say it's better knowing going in. Lol
true!
someone said php is similar to either c or c# - is this true?
Ehhh...
how does this group work ?
I don't remember C :)
ok
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
oh ok.
**pho
Stupid phone...you get the idea lol
lol, yes i do
@Lilyheart Gotcha ya
@shruthi2005 - we meet here online as we're working on our individual projects
@ccziriak - ohh okay.
and there are a 2 local in-person meetups at different times/places
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!
Alrighty, ttyl @li3097
ttyl @li3097
Haha I wouldn't call myself that, but thanks!
I'm nowhere near. Always plenty to learn
What are you all up to in terms of projects? Anything cool you're working on?
working on website for my new business, flex, SVG
I'm working through a Udemy course on MVC in ASP.net right now.
and PHP of course
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.
@shruthi2005 did you used to work at cvs?
@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.
@lantech19446 no i never worked with cvs
@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
I should have that at work!
@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.
@NotTheDBA that's cool!
Sorry I was away. Chatting with a former professor. Off to class
Nice to "meet" you @Lilyheart .
ttyl @Lilyheart
Alrighty, ttyl @Lilyheart
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.
I can see it.. but I'm not logged in. What's the issue?
Can't sign in at all
It's disabled atm
whoa
something on their twitter an hour ago.
they are working on it.
Alrighty - that's just odd though haha
Well - since that's down...I'll be back in a little bit. Going to get some dinner together.
^^/
I have a git question, if anyone is free to answer...
feel free to ask, someone will pop an answer eventually xD
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
bbl
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.
Ttyl @NotTheDBA!
And you're welcome. I've used both git and tfs
g'nite all
Night @ccziriak