REST-Rant
“Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn’t have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends. – Jeremy Stoppelman” REST-Rant is a small create, read, update, delete (CRUD) web application using Node.js and Express.js connected to a JSON […]
Milestone Project 1
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston S. Churchill This is the first of the significant milestone projects for my software development Bootcamp. This project aims to combine and progress frontend development skills by making a PC-supported browser game. For this project, I chose to […]
Enjoying the Journey
It has been nearly three months since my last post, which is far too long! I have accomplished a lot and needed to prioritize my time over the previous few weeks. Since May, I have attended the Software Development Bootcamp offered by the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I completed the introductory portion and passed the assessment […]
Fundamentals of Computer Science
I’ve been on the move traveling for work in some dynamic environments. While this will likely be my last trip as an Active-Duty Marine, it won’t be my last business trip. Continuing to learn and code on the move comes with its challenges. The biggest one for me is the time commitments involved with my […]
THF Graduation
The Honor Foundationhttps://www.honor.org Having completed “project one”, it was time to focus on finishing The Honor Foundation (THF) transition program. Although it doesn’t have anything to do with coding directly, it does have everything to do with coding personally. If you don’t know about THF, they provide free military transition assistance to U.S. Special […]
Project One
“Be brave enough to suck at something new” -Linda Horton It has been a fun and busy week as I worked in as much time on the development of this site as possible. I now have the site in what I would consider Initial Operating Capacity (IOC), so I am going to claim it as […]
Step One – Return to an old Passion
“Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well” -Philip Stanhope It has been just one week since I decided to dive back into software development. I have rediscovered an old passion! As a retiring Marine, husband, and father I was looking at leveraging my deep leadership and project management experience as my first […]
Hello world!
“All it takes is all you got.” -Marc Davis Please excuse the mess, someone needs to hire a professional… I am Dan, a retiring Marine looking to pivot back to software development after 21 years of service to the U.S. Marine Corps specializing in counter terrorism. I was a student, junior software developer, and aspiring […]
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Project showcases coming soon!