I’ve been playing with a massive Kendo UI Grid for the past few months. I really enjoy Kendo UI – I can build functionality quickly, and the forums are very active and helpful. But there is so much grid I can take!!

I decided to take a break from my grid for a few days and familiarize myself with the Kendo UI Datepicker

Thanks to Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States for picking me to be the “Student Spotlight” for March 2017. In my interview, I got to talk about #propifyyourlife, a hashtag I started on Instagram to demonstrate prop use in yoga poses.

Lately I’ve been working with Apostrophe CMS, a NodeJS base content management system. The Apostrophe website lists for features “in-context-editing, schema-driven content types, flexible widgets, and more.” Coming from Wordpress, I encountered some familiar concepts like themes and plugins approached from a new perspective. I was excited to take on Apostrophe to say the least.

A client was concerned about keeping users on the site, and wanted a way to “shout” a call-to-action be if the user was about to leave the site. The call-to-action could be some text, or a video, or a form, the client wasn’t sure what would work.

I see this kind of thing on blogs all the time, and wondered to do it. Particularly, how do I anticipate the user leaving the site?

Last year, a client asked me to create a countdown to show the time left until the start of Black Friday. At the time, I had just started using AngularJS, so naturally, I decided to challenge myself to use AngularJS to make the countdown

I feel old when I think of the last time I did any heavy SEO work. 10 years ago, I found success with SEO efforts by just sticking to basics – create clean, structured markup, make use of TITLE attributes, have a healthy and sensible link hierarchy, and don’t be sketchy by creating hidden text or other dubious acts. Today, those fundamentals still apply, but now one can do so much more with optimization efforts. In fact, as I re-acquaint myself with SEO best practices, I am finding more and more articles like this one discussing how time consuming SEO initiatives can be.

Summary

The purpose of the #propifyyourlife app is to present resources and images of yoga poses that promote knowledge and awareness of poses, as well as the promotion of the yoga community as a whole. More specifically, I wish to present alternative forms of practicing yoga to express my deep conviction that yoga is for every body, regardless of ability. Additionally, by building and maintaining this application, I am furthering my own knowledge of yoga and website development.

This demo shows how to convert links to youtube videos into buttons that launch the youtube video in a modal window. This demo utilizes the Youtube Developer API, AngularJS, jQuery, and Bootstrap.

I finally got thecolintrio.com to a place where I feel comfortable in detailing the work I’ve done so far. For the record, I am still looking to enhance the site visually, but I’m not a designer, and thats a challenge for another day.

Below is the process and code that I used to create this map showing Instagram pictures from a road trip I took starting in Nashville, TN and ending in Portland, OR. This exercise demonstrates:

• API Development
• Consumption of JSON Data
• Object-Oriented Principles

Live Demo Page