JuniorLearnsToCode

This is another blog post inspired by  Bloggers Club June 2021 - if you are a tester (or interested in testing) be sure to check out the Ministry of Testing, it's wonderful community of smart and helpful people and their forum (called the Club) is great place to get help, get inspired and to discus stuff to stimulate those little grey cells. This month's topic idea appealed to me straight away. I try not to have regrets, per say, but there I decisions from the past that, from today's perspective, I would have made differently. If I could, pretty much only thing I would have done differently is that I would have left support sooner (I worked in tech support for about two and a half years) and gotten into testing sooner. I spent a lot of time trying to find myself, I was learning WordPress and doing freelance consulting, learning Angular, React, PHP, Java, .NET/C# and other development technologies, mostly (but not exclusively) front-end oriented. I recently  blogged about ...

Falling in love with jQuery! No big discovery here, but as I was starting the jQuery section of  Colt Steel's Udemy Bootcamp course I immediately fell in love with the simplicity and the intuitive implementation of jQuery! All the bashing jQuery gets is completely unnecessary in my (rather noobish) opinion, John Resig made one of the best JavaScript libraries ever made, and the fact that it has been widely adopted by so many websites and still is widely used speaks enough of it's quality. Many libraries and frameworks coming and going, jQuery has been around since January 2006 - 10 plus years is a LOT in IT terms. One last thing, as I was going trough the course lessons I took a small break to check what's up on YouTube, and Beau from Free Code Camp just published his tutorial on jQuery!  Maybe Fate wants me to learn jQuery...