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Today I have mostly been using ${insert development technology here}

I have been going through Free Code Camp which is a tutorial site for learning HTML, Javascript, Jquery etc although most of the courses appear to be on codeacademy at the moment, they are pretty good, I did know a lot of the content already but definitely feel that I learnt something. They have some pretty good and friendly chatrooms that you can go on for support or just to show off your latest creation. They have about 800 hours of tutorials and when you have completed them they have real tasks you can complete on the behalf of non-profits. Afterwards you should have skills, and a portfolio of real apps you have made, presumably making you much more employable.
 
Recommend it? I need to learn some front-end stuff pretty sharpish.

Today I've mostly been using python-social-auth, which ended up being such a piece of piss I'm irritated I didn't do it ages ago. :(
 
I'm working on a C++ application today. It's been a while since I've used C++ and I had completely forgotten how slow builds are, linking this app takes over 20 minutes. I blame boost.
 
Today I have been mostly playing with Powershell. Never really used it before, I quite like it. I needed something to check for the location and details of any .pst files on 300 odd remote machines.

I wrote a small .ps1 file that when the user logs into the vpn it checks if it has been run on their machine before, if not checks the entire users hard drive for psts and outputs the results into a SQL database. It's taken me about 3 hours from planning to deployment and it is working suspiciously well.

I was given three weeks to have this completed, looks like I can put my feet up for a bit.
 
Looking at the db server I manage I just noticed a UserPSTCheck database.

Apparently the manager forgot that he'd already asked for this information from Josh, one of my colleagues, so all that clever work was completely pointless as there is a (really complicated) database with all the info already in it.

My solution is much neater though. He's managed to make it spread across about 15 tables, I have no idea how he makes it give you the correct data without a lot of SQL-fu.

What was quite amusing is that at first no-one knew what the database was for, so I changed the name and just waited for someone to start complaining that something was broken. Discovered all the details I needed about the db within 5 minutes of doing that, Josh was not happy.
 
dervish said:
What was quite amusing is that at first no-one knew what the database was for, so I changed the name and just waited for someone to start complaining that something was broken. Discovered all the details I needed about the db within 5 minutes of doing that, Josh was not happy.
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:D
 
Been doing a few bits with Python tonight. I've picked up a few bits over the last couple of years from maintaining a Django system, but I've decided to try and learn it from scratch over Christmas while my freelance work is quiet.

I should have probably done this a few years ago really :D
 
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de_dog said:
UserSpice (fork of UserCake with Bootstrap). I've gone a bit mad for it.

As a bonus, I needed PHP 5.5.9 so I upgraded and did some housekeeping to the t1's. Tidy.
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Having a look at it now. It appears very useful, think I might divert from a site I was going to make and see if I can use this instead.
 
dervish said:
Having a look at it now. It appears very useful, think I might divert from a site I was going to make and see if I can use this instead.
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It's old-style procedural in the main, which suits me.

I had to go through and fix a lot of the markup in the frontend, can show a test site if you want - I'm going to do a little instagram clone this week as well.

There are some alternatives - UserFrosting is the most 'grown up' whilst UserApplePie is going in another direction as well.
 
Today it's been JSDoc, JavaScript Service Workers & HTML5 AppCache. Why AppCache has been made obsolete by Service Workers I do not get. Something simple, replaced by something that does loads more. I can see uses for both but why the overlap and why is AppCache deprecated. Probably missing something.
 
Yeah I read that. Seemed like the guy didn't read the spec and expected a load of stuff it wasn't designed to do. Comes across like a twat imo.
 
Mostly been using NLTK the last couple of days, and getting into using sklearn to analyse the outputs of that; my brain is kind of melting.
 
fractionMan said:
I've been using readme.io recently. very nice.
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Looks good, we're now assessing it for a community info resource/collaboration space. The free open source hosting? do you just have to say that it's an open source project? Most, but not all, of our stuff will be.
 
Mapped said:
Looks good, we're now assessing it for a community info resource/collaboration space. The free open source hosting? do you just have to say that it's an open source project? Most, but not all, of our stuff will be.
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You have to associate it with a github or bitbucket repo. I created on that contains nothing but the output of the readme.io export! That said, I mentioned that it was docs for two open source projects when I applied. They seem pretty flexible.
 
neonwilderness said:
Been doing a few bits with Python tonight. I've picked up a few bits over the last couple of years from maintaining a Django system, but I've decided to try and learn it from scratch over Christmas while my freelance work is quiet.

I should have probably done this a few years ago really :D
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I need to do the same. I need to learn Scapy, although being proficient in Python isn't necessary to do what I need to it would be handy. Plus next year I do need to be proficient.

Have you found any decent resources for learning?
 
magneze said:
Yeah I read that. Seemed like the guy didn't read the spec and expected a load of stuff it wasn't designed to do. Comes across like a twat imo.
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There must be something more to the article than that, because Mozilla linked to it as explanation for the deprecation.
 
elbows said:
There must be something more to the article than that, because Mozilla linked to it as explanation for the deprecation.
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Probably. Anyway AppCache support is wide whereas Service Worker is patchy so that decision made for a bit anyway. [emoji1]
 
DrRingDing said:
I need to do the same. I need to learn Scapy, although being proficient in Python isn't necessary to do what I need to it would be handy. Plus next year I do need to be proficient.

Have you found any decent resources for learning?
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I used this which covers the basics - Learn Python - Free Interactive Python Tutorial

Now I need to try and find some time to build on that and try to do something interesting with my Raspberry Pi.
 
Not today as such (today was all PHP and hacky MySQL) but some Swift training recently.

I really like Swift now. I'd dismissed it initially as "nicer than ObjectiveC yuk but not a general purpose language", but now it's open source it's become a much more attractive prospect, and it's one of the nicest and most practical of the modern languages I've looked at. I probably like Ruby more in aesthetic terms, for instance, but I can see myself using Swift practically and I can't so much Ruby. The idea of one language that I can use for everything from small scripts to desktop and mobile app development is kind of nice.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
Not today as such (today was all PHP and hacky MySQL) but some Swift training recently.

I really like Swift now. I'd dismissed it initially as "nicer than ObjectiveC yuk but not a general purpose language", but now it's open source it's become a much more attractive prospect, and it's one of the nicest and most practical of the modern languages I've looked at. I probably like Ruby more in aesthetic terms, for instance, but I can see myself using Swift practically and I can't so much Ruby. The idea of one language that I can use for everything from small scripts to desktop and mobile app development is kind of nice.
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I didn't think Swift could do all that. I knew it was OS now, but thought it was limited to OSX/iOS shit?

Also, it allows emojis??

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:cool:
 
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