March had been a good month for me. I had a new job, a new husband, a new puppy, spring was coming. Life was pretty good, up until the last week of the month when I got *the cold* that will now live in infamy. It was the full monty: sneezing, clogged sinuses, chest…

And self-reliance. And self-sufficiency.

The portfolio.

Coding comes easily for me. Coding, I can do. When it comes to building the perfect portfolio site to convince total strangers of this, however, things get tough. What is the balance between personality and professionalism? What are…

My love/hate relationship with the Google Maps Embed API.

The Idea

Group projects were last week. Group programming is an entirely different and foreign experience from what we had been doing, and the…

Some tips for the design-challenged beginner developer

CSS is my Everest. I can handle the basics of it: colors, fonts, sizing….that I can do. When it comes to positioning however, I find myself wanting to throw my laptop across the room. Keep…