What a week. I've learned a lot. So lets at least get to some of it:
Coming from computer hardware and software maintenance,
servers and networking, information security and administration, web
development and software engineering has introduced a completely new world of
technologies to immerse yourself in. It’s endless and presents tons of new
concepts to learn and master. Being in the field
of technology, period, requires an individual to constantly learn and be open
to change. Nothing stays the same, there is everything to learn, and everything
is a new idea. So of course that’s why it takes a while to get the hang of a
new technology. It takes a while to learn how something works and then do it
yourself. Which is really the majority of the motivation for myself to document
this journey. That and of course I love making web pages and software. Even
though this may be easier if I combine a VLOG with my pages. Because I can talk
pretty well. Thankfully, I can write well too (IMO) So perhaps in the future.
Well I hope everyone had a great Easter. Seeing my family truly makes me happy.
I only live an hour away but still I feel like I see them only sparingly. Being
in school and working is a 20 hour a day job (I include sleeping) so when I get
a few hours I’ll see my friends and family. So anyway I have a new web page up.
You can see that here. It is called My Web Tech and it is a .NET web
page built with WebMatrix 3 and is hosted on the Windows Azure platform. WebMatrix is a very interesting tool that can be
useful for beginners as well as seasoned developers. Even though I don’t see
too many seasoned developers really being immersed with WebMatrix since the
projects they would most likely be working on would already be implemented
through Visual Studio or something with higher scale capability. But it is a
Microsoft tool that does integrate with the .NET framework. The web page has
jQuery, Bootstrap, and CSHTML components. It is ASP.NET. It is a fast and
friendly way to get a page up quickly. It has the ability to implement hundreds
of blogs and CMS like Wordpress and Umbraco. And you can have a quick site up
and running within minutes or you can create an empty project and build
something from scratch with PHP, ASP.NET, NODE.JS,SQL CE and more. It’s pretty
awesome and free and you get a free trial with Microsoft Azure (I’m pretty sure
that’s available) and you get up to 10 sites for free. Now the site I made has
a xxx.azurewebsites.net extension.
Like I said I just used it to whip up and deploy a site that can be used in
conjunction with this blog post to keep track of more specific things I've
learned. So this past week has been inspiring. I’m on a good track I think. I
will every so often turn around and say “Why do I like this” or “Why am I doing
this again?” "Why the rush to do this so quickly and obsessively?" and “I’m going to learn more about this in school later on … I’m
sure I’ll learn this stuff eventually.”, “This is a hobby for the most part”. This line of thinking is really dangerous. I am driven to understand things
that I didn't before and know how to take advantage of a chance to be able to
solve a problem or contribute to a solution for someone. I want to work in this
field. And if I'm serious about it then I will make it one of the most important things I do. It is fun. There is so much I don’t know. I want to go beyond what I
thought I was capable of. I love internet technology. I love software. We are dependent.
I was born the year that Hyper Text Markup Language was invented … and my head
starts spinning to see where we've come in twenty three years. So this is the part of
society I want to be involved with. To see how these things change our lives and
improve our lives. Because I also care to understand how people work along with the devices they use and rely on everyday. I mean that makes sense right? I can't think of anything, in our age, more important than understanding both people and technology. I want to spend the rest of my life behind a computer screen
hopefully making a difference. It started as picking a major in college but
this is what it has grown into. My comfort, my hobby, my career, my meaning. It
feels good to have purpose. This is what I do. So that’s the reason for my education, my blog, my
code, and hopefully my future employment as a web developer. So yes please go
check out http://mywebtech.azurewebsites.net
as there will be more sites and pages to come. Hopefully by next year I have a
functioning portfolio. I know that I have projects coming my way not only from
on my own but also in school. It’s going to be crazy being this immersed in C#
and JavaScript and being used to doing things a certain way with a certain
platform and framework for so long and then have to learn Java and PHP. I mean
I somewhat have some control over that but I have to have another programming
language in school for a sixteen week course. With what they’re offering I might as
well learn some Java. I may not agree with it being used for several different
reasons but the fact is that it’s a popular language and a popular tool in the
development toolkit for many projects and companies. So I should learn how to
read it at least. Because in 2014, the idea that I might encounter some Java in
the wild … is quite high. Same with PHP. So yes….it’s Monday. Going back to
work to help customers with their technical problems. Still learning and
building and … I’m not sure how many people are going to read this huge book
that I’ve posted, as this blog is a lot for me as well, but if you did thanks.
I suck at blogging. I suck at programming. I suck at many things. But that’s where
the drive to better yourself comes from so I’m fine with that. So here’s to a
million blog posts and a million lines of code!
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