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Nov 5, 2022

What To Expect From Your Coding Bootcamp

Originally published on www.builtin.com If you’re considering a career transition through a coding bootcamp, you may be overwhelmed with information and unsure of what to expect. As someone who made my own career transition 7 years ago through one of the first bootcamps in the industry, I understand how challenging…

Bootcamp

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What To Expect From Your Coding Bootcamp
What To Expect From Your Coding Bootcamp
Bootcamp

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Oct 17, 2022

WTF is an HTMLCollection?

Have you ever written the following code? const paragraphsToHide = document.getElementsByClassName("p.hide"); paragraphsToHide.forEach(para => para.hidden = true); // error = paragraphsToHide.forEach is not a function!!! The reason for your bug is that you have received a HTMLCollection iteratable object and not an array from your DOM Selection method!! What is an HTMLCollection? An HTMLCollection is…

JavaScript

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WTF is an HTMLCollection?
WTF is an HTMLCollection?
JavaScript

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·Updated Oct 11, 2022

The Software Industry is Shrinking

It’s Time to Specialize or Be Cut — The software industry is shrinking. The last 30 years from the dot com boom to today produced a huge wave of innovation across so many sectors, leaving healthcare, shopping, food, communications along with countless others completely transformed — but the massive momentum is beginning to slow. Data shows that the…

Software Development

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The Software Industry is Shrinking
The Software Industry is Shrinking
Software Development

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·Oct 9, 2022

Copy Text to a User’s Clipboard Using the navigator.clipboard API

The simplest way to copy something to your user’s clipboard is with the clipboard API on the navigator object. You can access this API as follows. const clipBoard = navigator.clipboard; You’ll get access to a handful of useful methods using this API. Write Text To the Clipboard The most commonly used is the clipboard.writeText() method…

Software Development

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Copy Text to a User’s Clipboard Using the navigator.clipboard API
Copy Text to a User’s Clipboard Using the navigator.clipboard API
Software Development

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JavaScript in Plain English

·Oct 5, 2022

Javascript Bloat is Slowing Down The Internet

Originally published on www.builtin.com JavaScript is everywhere on the internet. It’s involved in nearly every aspect of what we do online. When we use Facebook, YouTube or Google, we’re relying on JavaScript code to give us the interactive feel that we expect from the internet today. …

JavaScript

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Javascript Bloat is Slowing Down The Internet
Javascript Bloat is Slowing Down The Internet
JavaScript

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Oct 3, 2022

Use Javascript Web Workers for Multithreaded JS execution in the browser

Vanilla JS Advanced Topics — The Web Worker API allows you to run a JavaScript program on a background thread in the browser. …

Software Development

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Use Javascript Web Workers for Multithreaded JS execution in the browser
Use Javascript Web Workers for Multithreaded JS execution in the browser
Software Development

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·Sep 30, 2022

Create a Spinner in one Line of Code With the <progress> Element

Semantic HTML Basics — The progress element is used to markup a value that is either progressing from one value to another, or indicating an unknown amount of progress. The tag is rendered as a scalar bar, similar to the meter element. For example, the following HTML: <progress id="file" max="100" value="25"> 70% </progress> Produces…

HTML

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Create a Spinner in one Line of Code With the <progress> Element
Create a Spinner in one Line of Code With the <progress> Element
HTML

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·Sep 25, 2022

Send Data Across the Network with the <form> Element

Semantic HTML Basics — The HTML Form is a very important element to your job as a web developer. It is the most fundamental method of sending data from a web page to a server. A very simple form might look like this: When the form element is submitted, it sends information to…

Software Development

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Send Data Across the Network with the <form> Element
Send Data Across the Network with the <form> Element
Software Development

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·Sep 18, 2022

Three Semantic HTML Lists Every Web Developer Should Know by Heart

Semantic HTML Basics — This post is based on a cheatsheet I recently published on my blog. Check it out for a more concise version of this content. There are 3 primary ways to define “list-type” content in HTML. Ordered lists, unordered lists, and description lists. If you weren’t aware of all three you…

HTML

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Three Semantic HTML Lists Every Web Developer Should Know by Heart
Three Semantic HTML Lists Every Web Developer Should Know by Heart
HTML

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Sep 14, 2022

Describe Scores, Comparisons + Ranges Using The <meter> Element

Semantic HTML Basics — The <meter> element is used to markup a value that falls within a range, and has an optimum value. The tag is rendered as a scalar bar, similar to the progress element. For example, the following HTML: <p>He got a 20% score <meter min=”0" low=”30" high=”70" max=”100" value=”20" optimum=”100">20%</meter> on…

HTML

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Describe Scores, Comparisons + Ranges Using The <meter> Element
Describe Scores, Comparisons + Ranges Using The <meter> Element
HTML

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Alex Zito

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Software Developer + Product Manager. Interested in Travel, Culture, Economics and the Internet. Join Medium: https://tinycode.medium.com/membership

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