Open Source Development Diary

I am still trying to decide on my target audience. .. please forgive me if I talk about the most obvious concepts in my blog posts. This week I was working with AWS, for those of you who are not familiar with AWS here is the definition from Wikipedia. "Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis." This was not my first time using AWS. I actually have 3 EC2's running at all times. Although it wasn't my first experience using AWS you have to understand that EC2's are just a subset of what AWS provides. This week I was challenged to upload user profiles into a Simple Storage Service, aka S3. Writing this in NodeJS / Express.js was an interesting challenge.  The first obstacle I encountered was sending the file to the backend server. This task came with many challenges, such as, handling the file uploading and saving in a local var

Sorry my blog hasn't been updating recently, Im so busy getting ready to get in the groove back at home. Im not going to lie the vacation life is great! Waking up at 3pm, taking baths, and the food is ready when I sit down at the table. It's a privilege I take for granted.  Since writing a blog post helps me take a minute to reflect on the experiences I have been going through, I will keep making these blog posts. In addition, I noticed these blog posts encourage me to acknowledge the accomplishments of today, keep me focused on the progress I am making, and finally.. I must work on articulating sentences. Here is a visualization of myself:  An update on what I have been doing. I moved back home for Christmas, I started working on my pool hall app, and Ive been applying to positions. With Christmas break upon us I would like to get some personal projects going. This will give me the opportunity to solidify my knowledge of what I have learned so far. I started working on this po

     If you haven't read the previous blog you can read up about it here .    It was a long 2 days where I had nearly convinced myself I wasn't getting anything done, except for searching for a new repository to work on for my final project. However, after p ushing this pull request I got a burst of confidence in my abilities to work on front end development using React. Finishing this project gave me the confidence to create my own Website using React! You can check it out here, its called the  PoolHallApp . I decided to create this project, since I realized the Pool halls in Toronto use pen and paper to keep track of their customers play time. So I thought they would benefit from a web application to keep track of their customers tabs. I plan to make this a free application for all pool halls to implement into their daily schedule. I will litter it with ads soon. .. Check back in a month.      After completing the task at hand, I believe that I have successfully achieved the

This week I decided on a repository to work on, the telescope repository. I was excited since this was a front end development issue. I had never created my own component before, however, I have some prior experience using React. I started by creating a bottomBar component and locating where I should add this component. I located the PageBase.js, the mobile application interface, and added the component to the bottom of the page. I started by creating a div with a red background to make sure I was on the right track. since it has been a couple months that I have not worked with React, I started with the most basic tasks, such as, creating a react component, a  div element, and rendering the component I made.     After confirming that I did not break anything, I started designing the layout of the desired BottomBar. The idea was created by  agarcia-caicedo,   proposed a bottom app bar t o improve mobile usability. If you're curious on the original idea you can check out his