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Blog Posts (42 posts since January 2020)

Review: ChatGPT for Web Developers (LinkedIn Learning)

ChatGPT for Web Developers by Sandy Ludosky on LinkedIn Learning Hadn’t realized it’s been 2 whole years since a review here – and thought I should...

June 27, 2026
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Announcing my new tech blog @ Hashnode

Today I started a secondary blog over at Hashnode that will be more intended to provide hands-on coding tutorials and other types of posts focused exclusively...

July 10, 2024
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Review: WordPress: The Missing Manual (Third Edition)

Other than my exposure to WordPress site administration via this blog (since it is powered by WordPress, if you couldn’t tell), I haven’t used WordPress in...

July 8, 2024
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(+) Best Online Courses #18

PHP with MySQL Essential Training: 1 The Basics and 2: Build a CMS by Kevin Skoglund on LinkedIn Learning This pair of courses was one of...

September 11, 2023
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A preview of things to come…

Although I may not have posted anything here in several months, I’ve been hard at work recently on a new idea. To be more specific, I’ve...

May 30, 2022
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Master JavaScript Closures, Data Structures and Map/Reduce on SitePoint by M. David Green This course on SitePoint Premium is M. David Green’s follow-up to his excellent...

January 30, 2022
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The Future of Coding-Unboxed

Right now, Coding-Unboxed exists primarily as a repository of online course reviews (positive, neutral, and negative), and if you’ve read my About page, I’d imagine it’s...

December 26, 2021
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Angular Course Reviews

Angular: The Big Picture on Pluralsight by Joe Eames I started working professionally with Angular earlier this year and wanted to find a good first course...

November 28, 2021
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Review: Learn ES2015 Programming Principles (SitePoint)

Learn ES2015 Programming Principles by Darin Haener on SitePoint This course was extremely helpful for me back when I completed it in July 2017 and happened...

October 26, 2021
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(+) Best Online Courses #16

Introduction to Databases and SQL Querying and Advanced Databases and SQL Querying on Udemy by Rakesh Gopalakrishnan Courses on Udemy are a dime a dozen, but...

September 30, 2021
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