A seasoned programmer

I recently upgraded my working computer so had to reinstall all of my software. I ran into problems with my SQL Server installation. When I am installing any major piece of software I must remember to install it with Administrator privileges. In the installation process I give the SQL Server Instance ID a name. If you don’t do this your SQL Server instance will be named mssqlserver. You will use this for all database connection strings in your applications. ...

Yesterday morning I opened my computer and noticed that I had a Window 10 feature update waiting to be installed. I completed the process and started working on the Rest API that I am creating. I am using Node.js and running my server with Express.js. I booted up the server and immediately got a server error. I had worked on the application the day before and knew that it was running without any problems. ...

For a number of years I have been using Dillinger.io to compile my Markdown files into HTML. The process was relatively easy and I could quickly take the body content out of the exported web page and insert it into a Bootstrap HTML template to produce a styled web page. The HTML that was created wasn’t valid HTML but I wasn’t concerned with that. Recently I found that Dillinger started changing the formatting of the HTML content it was producing. ...

I was working on my computer today when I needed to search for a topic on Google. To my surprise the internet had stopped working. I quickly checked on another device and found that the internet was working there. It was just my computer with the problem. I have had this problem in the past and use ipconfig to fix it. The commands are: ipconfig /registerdns ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew The part that I always forget to do is reboot my computer after I do the renew. ...

I was struggling to get some code working in JavaScript and realised that I’d made a small variable type error. This is one of the problems in working with a loosely typed language like JavaScript. When I work in C# it is strongly typed meaning that I have to declare a variable and its type at the same time. This saves a multitude of errors in my code. Unfortunately I don’t have this luxury with JavaScript and I have to be more careful with my variables. ...

I have recently completed the Udemy Modern JavaScript Bootcamp 2019 course run by Andrew Mead. It has been one of the most professional courses I have taken in video training. The quality and depth of training would be enough to give a learner a solid understanding of javascript. There is enough content to keep a user going for a couple of months. I did all of the training exercises and have built up a wealth of knowledge and some best practices in JavaScript. ...