Month: July 2024

Am I actually programming?!?!?

Posted on by Gregnstuff

So I pushed really hard and was able to finish the React/Next.JS course and I am actually producing code.  

It is still a bit slow but I am able to make pages, connect my database.

As a next step I am working on role based authorization.  The Next.JS course went over authentication but the authorization was not very detailed.  I found this YouTube video (Next.js Authentication – AuthJS / NextAuth for Role-Based Security) that did a really good breakdown and now I just need to combine the React course that creates a record for users when they authenticate with the Youtube video that show how to authorize pages.

Here is the notes that I have currently from the YouTube video as well as the GitHub repository:
NextJS deployment.docx
https://github.com/gregnstuff/AuthJS-Walkthough

Blogging Is Hard But Progress Is Just One Day At A Time… 

Posted on by Gregnstuff

It has been over 6 months since my last post and I can say blogging is hard but progress is just a day at a time… 

I can say that I enjoyed the Node.js, Express, MongoDB & More: The Complete Bootcamp 2024 and learned a lot and felt that I could make a site with the knowledge.  That is were the challenges start coming up.  

The biggest issue that I found was using the pug view engine and when the checkboxes that I had in a form were not being passed to the website as expected.  I found there were some answers but finding the community is not huge.  So I talked to my kids (have three that are in software development, with my daughter just finishing her degree) and decided that with the knowledge that I have that my next step is to learn a skill that is more mainstream and has a larger community.

Right or wrong that is the direction that I am taking now which has lead me to stay on the  Jonas Schmedtmann learning path and move to the React course that I mentioned back in November. Excluding the optional section I am currently just shy of 44% done.

I feel this course is going much faster as it is building on the other courses that I have used in the past and while I have some that say my 4th of July weekend sounds sad, spending 30-50 over the weekend continuing my growth is my idea of a good time 😁.

I am finishing up one of the projects in the course that is used to track cities/countries that you have visited and it provides that to a display map.  This is perfect for the emergency response app that I have been thinking about.  As a high over view:

  • Have a list of people (this will be for my Church congregation)
  • Each time we have a bad storm (such as tornados, which we have had two in the last two years) generate a new check in task
    • Each family needs to be check-up on to complete the list.
    • List be updated with peoples status and needs if any.
  • Group the people
    • Region Leaders
    • Individuals assigned to people to check in on.

This is just one of my ideas that I want to work on as I have to many ideas going through my head that I will love to share here in the future, these are the ones that I can think of currently. Some are side hustles some are just to make my life a little easier, but all are to expand my knowledge of what I am learning:

  • Property Management/Home Maintenance
  • Application, Bug, Customer Sync software
  • Group Emergency Response
  • Group Event reminder (text/email)