LetUmGrow Release Notes
15 Feb 2017
M6 LetUmGrow Release Notes (02-15-17) Tasks Completed Added pre-database wipe backup data .json files to LetUmGrow /backups directory Made progress creating pages for the Admin functionality Tasks To Do (see M7 Project Page) Finish implementing Admin functionality Notes Working on...
Project Management
Software Engineering
Web Apps
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Project Germination
16 Dec 2016
The seed of the idea behind LetUmGrow began years ago on hikes that I would take with my dad. He usually brought photocopies of pages of the trail guidebook he owned. Occasionally, he would also bring his Hawaiian plant guide...
App Ideas
Project Management
Software Engineering
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This Is Your Brain on Facebook (The Consequences of Addictive App Design)
16 Dec 2016
Games. Social media. Video streaming apps. ‘Clickbait’ news sites. I don’t know about everyone else, but I have spent way too many hours on these kinds of services. In moderation, they can be informative, deeply social, and really fun! Games...
Software Engineering
Technology
Ethics
Addiction
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Botaniary App Proposal
22 Oct 2016
Authors: Bill Mullen, Nathan Nahina, Matthew Schultz Overview The problem There are a lot of plants out there on the University of Hawaii campus. However these plants are not always conveniently labeled. There is a significant lack of local plant...
Meteor
Botany
Hiking
App Development
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Crashing into Meteor
20 Oct 2016
Meteor is a blazing hot flamework. Literally. It has crashed my poor aging Windows laptop several times, and I have a suspicion that the stress of building and rebuilding my apps on my overworked processor is to blame. I’m hoping...
Frameworks
Web App Development
Meteor
Web Tutorials & Documentation
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You and I and Semantics
06 Oct 2016
Semantic UI was the bane of my existence for the past week. Okay, honestly it was not quite completing the multi hour block of video lessons that really made it tough. I thought I would have more time during the...
Semantic UI
Web Design
CSS
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I Have Standards
22 Sep 2016
For a while, I’ve been curious about coding standards in different organizations. How do successful tech companies like google organize their code? I’ve used their standards in previous website projects, but it seems like many times good standards are unclear...
Standards and Practices
Coding Standards
CSS
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Out of (Version) Control!
15 Sep 2016
My first experience with Github was during a hackathon. I was intimidated, because I wasn’t too confident in my application development skills. However, one of the speakers demonstrated the value of hackathons as a growing experience for practicing skills not...
Github
Git
Configuration Management
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Smart Questions
08 Sep 2016
Intro I found the essay on asking smart questions to be quite helpful. I tend to hesitate before asking questions, because I do not want to appear stupid and I enjoy finding out answers on my own. However if finding...
Stack Overflow
Communication
Problem Solving
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When Will My Javascript Show Who I am Inside?
01 Sep 2016
Javascript: a language that I closely associated with Java years ago while first learning programming; I soon learned they were quite different and not that closely related at all. My main experience with Javascript before this semester has been occasional...
Web Development
Javascript
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Dreams from my Laptop
28 Aug 2016
Introduction I’ve come a long way from using html to embed animated gifs on my Neopets account. These days I embed animated gifs while developing company websites. While progressing through that path, I have learned so much about hardware and...
Web Development
Futurism
Autonomous Driving
Open Source
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