An Introductive Summary
Hi, I'm Kerrigan, the newest apprentice at Antelle.
Hi, I'm Kerrigan, the newest apprentice at Antelle.
Lessons from learning to use Web API as part of a website
Get it?
Anyway, I took part in my first demonstration to a client of a product, the product in this case being the close to finished version of the Umbraco website I mentioned in my last blog post.
Bugs, bugs everywhere.
As fun as 14 hours in the Hospital was, the recovery is always so much more entertaining. Three weeks after some well-qualified men and women poked and prodded around my knee, I was back to 100%. Which means I was in a good state to take my Database Fundamentals Exam.
Moving forward as a single person instead of as a pair is going to change a few things, good and bad. Maybe I won’t have someone on the same track to bounce my crazier ideas off but, if I’m honest, I think the other workers will come to love such a charming personality spouting ridiculous ideas.
So a lot has happened since my last post. It's been an interesting and at times tempestuous period... certainly more so than usual.
Firstly, there was the not insignificant issue of several feet of water cascading into the office on the 3rd of December. Whilst we were not alone in being affected and I believe we coped well given the hand we were dealt it was certainly an experience I would not want to repeat any time soon.
Hello again, readers of the Antelle blog
There has been a lot going on since our last blog posts. Ben and I were tasked with creating a map overlay that programmatically integrated with an online API. We have also been preparing for our first Microsoft exam, “Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3”, which is our first step to becoming a MCSD.
We had stumbled into the trap of browser compatibility. There was a problem with our main body of the website, we wanted a specific effect, as we were replicating the exact layout of the website that we were updating. The desired effect was one of a purple rectangle, inside that, a white rectangle, slightly smaller, and inside that, another purple rectangle to be the main body content, once again, slightly smaller. To achieve this look we created the first purple rectangle, then another purple rectangle, smaller than the first with a white border. To do this, we used this kind of layout: