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The Debut
July 1, 2019 |Well, it's finally here. My website has officially joined the internet! And while I'm incredibly happy and proud for having reached this milestone, I'm also feeling a mix of frustration and resignation at the amount of work that remains to be done here. One of the first things to jump out at me when I loaded my site for the first time on a different computer was how clunky and distorted the par...
Some Last Minute Changes
June 29, 2019 |Gahhh, I'm so close to publishing this website but there are still just a few things I want to care of before sending it out for the world to see. The most important of which is probably cleaning up all of my code. Don't get me wrong, it's not in a bad state by any means. But I just need to go through all of my files (especially my HTML templates!) and make sure that everything is concise, pret...
Nearing the Finish Line
June 28, 2019 |What a tremendously exciting day it's been! And it's not even 3 o clock yet! Much to my delight, I was able to find a quick and relatively straightforward solution to the image pathway issue I was experiencing with my Project model. Yesterday, I'd been trying to use the FilePathField model to assign images to my projects on the admin site. But as I described in my last post, I wasn't able to ma...
You Win Some, You Lose Some
June 28, 2019 |Today has been both fruitful and frustrating in equal measure. I feel like this project is so close to the finish line (by which I mean deployable!) that any minor roadblock has bothered me more than it probably should. First let's start with the good news. I had a lot of fun reformatting my contact info page. By replacing all of the external links with icon badges for each site, I removed a...
Working with Linked-List Data Structures
June 26, 2019 |I though I'd take a break from development news to share a little bit of what I've been learning in my work with data structures in Python. While working on this website, I've also been working my way through the second edition of *Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python* by Bradley Miller and David Ranum. Since I have little in the way of academic background in compute...
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I'm Joe Pickert, and welcome to my blog.Here, you can find a collection of my thoughts both tech-related and otherwise.
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