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Little Furnace
is mostly projects
made while self-teaching
via books and
MOOC's,
between
2017
and
2021

LAMP Site

pikl.us

URL shortener

Bootstrap CSS

Apache, Ubuntu, PHP, MySQL

Instead of using PHP for the redirect, I configured Apache to store the redirect as a line in plain text and then read the redirect from that flat file

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Code Snippets

		Javascript things for the DOM and some Frameworkless CSS
		Javascript animation to create a flipping card effect.
		Built in 2018 for a course at Coursera
		React.js to remove troublesome words from a list.
		Haskell language coding helps you think 'functionally' during normal coding!
		Elm language snippet. Elm is strongly typed. It creates compiled Javascript for zero errors in production.
		FAQs and Camtasia edited videos to help customers with common problems when using the Beyond Compare visual diff app
		Documentation and learning journal for Matomo web analytics

Javascript animation

Image Flipper

Adapted in 2020 from Codepen.io

It was a bit of work because I had to rewrite the SCSS animations into Javascript, not knowing what SCSS is.

So I "saved time" by finding someone else's animation but it took hours and hours to make it look right.

LeFoy's code My code

Hi, I'm a Midvale Church member organizing sign ups for the photo directory. The photographer cancelled for Friday Oct 25 (your session day). Please reschedule by signing up for a new session. Any other day is fine but we are especially looking to fill slots on Oct 23 & 24. You do not need to cancel your existing session, we will log in and cancel it for you. Any questions, voice call me back (best) or voice call Pam in the church office. -Evan Genest

Example of Matomo monitoring a video player, in an iFrame

E Commerce

Discount Office Items (www.officesupply.com) is an Ecommerce site where I was a back end developer.

I updated code and wrote unit tests in the PHP/Symfony ecommerce backend but I also wrote a Node.js webserver during my first summer there. Most of what I did was write configuration, documentation, and unit tests. Two days a week I paired with a senior developer to work on a 3 point storyfor a bug or a new feature.

Chores included configuring the Bazaarvoice feed API settings and similar feeds for our ecommerce store. The Agile sprints and ceremonies were great. We were an 8 person dev team and everyone was very by-the-book about agile. I got good with the organizational tools: Git reset and revert, Pivotal for the backlog tool, remote chat, working in teams, planning and leading sprint retrospectives.