Terra Incognita

Unknown territories

Jest and Angular 6.*

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Open Source: ProtractorJS + Docker = Headless E2E for CI/CD

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An Introduction to ReactJS

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This article was originally part of my “edu” series originally publicized via a GitHub repository and live presented to a group of peers. Therefore much of it is organized in a manner meant to direct said presentation and is not optimized as an article.

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ES6 the Good Parts

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This article was originally part of my “edu” series originally publicized via a GitHub repository and live presented to a group of peers. Therefore much of it is organized in a manner meant to direct said presentation and is not optimized as an article.

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An Introduction to Graphql in Drupal 8.5.*

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This article was originally part of my “edu” series originally publicized via a GitHub repository and live presented to the Drupal NOVA Meetup Group. Therefore much of it is organized in a manner meant to direct said presentation and is not optimized as an article.

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An Introduction to Serverless Applications

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This article was originally part of my “edu” series originally publicized via a GitHub repository and live presented to a group of peers. Therefore much of it is organized in a manner meant to direct said presentation and is not optimized as an article.

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Angular 5.* Lighthouse Primer

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This article was originally part of my “edu” series originally publicized via a GitHub repository and live presented to a group of peers. Therefore much of it is organized in a manner meant to direct said presentation and is not optimized as an article.

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ReactJS 16.* Lighthouse Primer

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This article was originally part of my “edu” series originally publicized via a GitHub repository and live presented to a group of peers. Therefore much of it is organized in a manner meant to direct said presentation and is not optimized as an article.

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Polymer 2.0 in Drupal 8.4.*

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The web has come long since my joining of the space. Once HTML5, jQuery and AngularJS were magical. However, when scale was introduced my codebases leveraging such became racked with technical debt when optimizations were absent. Technology and ‘best practices’ are ephemeral in this space as we know. Are we stuck on a hedonic treadmill? Perhaps it is Sisyphean. The answer likely doesn’t exist below; but it merits further consideration: Web Component’s1 proximity to the browser platform makes it a candidate for truly interoperable components between a matrix of orchestration technologies (Angular, React, ASP, Drupal, etc).

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About Terra Incognita

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Call me Quesada. I am a Software Engineer at ICF specializing in Web Applications. Though I preference taxonomizing this laborious species of labor under distributed applications development. This blog is new (as of 23102017). A bit on it’s author: I entertain varying interests; new content will arrive with increasing momentum throughout time dependent on the burdens of such time. Terra Incognita is Latin for ‘unknown territory’ and that is really where this is going.

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James Madison University CIS 484 Competition Winning Website

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James Madison University CIS 484 Competition Winning Website Article link: http://www.jmu.edu/news/cob/2016/05/04-cis-484-final-presentations.shtml. Vimeo:

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CIS in Europe: A UX Case Study

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Getting Started The month program concludes on a final project that integrates a website and a SQL Server Database hosted on a WIMP stack. The object of my focus came in re-designing the project so it most naturally integrated all of the course content that preceded it, therein creating purpose for the aforementioned knowledge. User Interviews My initial research found me exchanging dialogue with former program students. The qualitative interviews brought to light many common pain-points, more specifically pertaining to role clarity and PHP complexities (as a month is a short time to learn several languages).

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Greek Life: A UX Case Study

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This piece was originally found in my college UX portfolio. It is up as a memento of earlier days

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Fat Cloudy: A UX Case Study

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This piece was originally found in my college UX portfolio. It is up as a memento of earlier days

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