During my work with clients over the past 14 years (14 years!), I’ve installed and configured a lot of different consumer (home) and SOHO (small office/home office) routers. I’ve finally just recently found one that I now happily use and can wholeheartedly recommend. Before we get to that, let me briefly explain what a router […]
Email: ISP, Free, or Paid?
If you’re reading this, there is an almost 100% chance that you have an email address, and that you use email at least occasionally. It’s more likely that you use email every day, and you might even have more than one email address. But have you thought about the ramifications of where you got your […]
Backups: Why, What, and How
“You should backup your PC” is an old refrain from many years ago. It was good advice. Of course, back then that meant buying a box of floppy disks and using a backup program – MS-DOS had a backup.com (later versions had backup.exe) that could be used to make sure that if your PC crashed […]
Week 10 Project, Part 2a: Back on Track
Last week, I wrote about two problems I had moving my project from PhpStorm to IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate (both from JetBrains.com). To recap (or you can read the entire post here), I could not get the deployment configuration to work (I set it up to sync the local sources with the web server on any […]
Week 10 Project, Part 2: Rabbit Trail Detour
This week was supposed to find the code complete and the web app up (at dev.kobayashicoding.net) and running. As these things go, however, I found myself doing some DevOps instead of coding. I use JetBrains tools for development. I’ve been using PhpStorm for quite some time, and recently also licensed IntelliJ IDEA because I want […]
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Week 10 Project, Part 1: More JavaScript…
No New News Here – I’m Behind! I’m way behind on my “52 Weekly Websites.” Sigh. I hope to do better going into the new year (2019). I started this venture in October… of 2016! I’ve actually been working on this project – on and off – for a couple of months now. A non-trivial […]
Week 9 Project: JavaScript something-or-other…
This “week’s” project started with a desire to write some JavaScript. I added the sub-directory (or folder, in more common parlance) and copied the index.html and style.css files used for the site’s main page (found at http://dev.kobayashicoding.net) into it. I then removed the text variables used to populate the various panel components, and also removed […]
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Week 8 Project: Spans and Divs
Well, it’s been so long since I started/published this “week’s” project that I don’t rightly remember exactly what I was planning to do or even what I did. The code is a “refinement” of Week 7’s project, but not much has been changed. Because I don’t remember what I was planning to do, and because […]
Week 7 Project: CSS Grids
Well, after a lapse of 8 months, I finally have a new project up and running at Kobayashi Coding – an example of using CSS Grid layout. (Click on the “Projects” dropdown and choose “Week 7.”) The result is similar to what Bootstrap and other grid frameworks provide, but without the additional Javascript and CSS […]
Week 6 Project: Update a page with a “push” from the server – Part 1, WordPress
This week’s project will be broken down into multiple parts – it seems too big to do all in one week. The end goal is to have a process that runs on the server and outputs updates to a <div> on a web page in real time without user intervention, and without reloading the browser […]
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