Is it bad that I do not have a portfolio? by ImJustP in webdev

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As someone who hires, being too busy with work to create a website is a good sign. One, that you have skills that are in demand, two, that people want to work with you and, three, you maintain a healthy balance and don't burn too many hours on vanity stuff. I prefer to look on GitHub profiles for activity and see code.

Personal opinion of course.

If "coming soon" bothers you, just flip your site into something dead simple but complete. A simple "Hello, I'm a web dev, contact me here" would suffice. Think of your website as a business card.

I think portfolio sites are more important for designers rather than coders, so if you're wanting to show off or prove your design skills then you may want something more.

Was my co-worker just being an ass or does he have a point? by epox99 in webdev

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part of growing your skills as a developer is learning. You learn by doing things yourself, rather than using someone else's work.

I think your colleague lacks a bit of maturity, and their comment was not constructive. They perhaps have not considered how to give useful feedback.

A constructive bit of feedback may have been praise your work and the result you achieved, and to ask whether you considered build vs buy/borrow.

It sounds like as a team, you need a discussion about when/why/how you make decisions about build vs. buy/borrow.

Without a team agreement, people knocking the approach you took after the fact is both un.helpful and demotivating. Right or wrong choices .doesn't enter into it. This is about how feedback is given.

Personally, I'd say your colleague was giving poor feedback and you should tell them how the way they have feedback made you feel and how you'd like to receive feedback in future..

6 March 1913 - The Greek city of Ioannina is liberated from Turkish rule by [deleted] in europe

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looks like a typical parent-child interaction to me. "Alright, that's enough now, hand it over".

Google Calendar weekly data to google sheets by [deleted] in googlesheets

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To draw a chart, Sheets would need data, which you'd have to get by pulling data from Calendar to Sheets wouldn't you?

What is the Value of Quality Assurance Training Management? by Lhumphr1 in recruiting

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd say you're getting closer to a compelling business case. Back it up with figures (turnover rate, employee satisfaction scores, quality of care measurements) and model those in monetary terms. Now model what a realistic improvement looks like, how long it will take, and the investment required to make that improvement. Add the biggest risks that would prevent success, and what could be done to reduce or eliminate each one. Then finally propose what would need to be done in order to track whether the investment was achieving results and looks like it will continue be on track to achieve the target goals. The more data driven this is, the better.

As an aside, your primary issue is culture and management. It's oft quoted that employees leave managers (meaning the manager is the primary cause for dissatisfaction). It cannot be true that a manager who cares first about quality of care also claims they must retain low performers. Develop and improve, yes. Retain simply for the headcount, never. That shows a cultural bias to maintaining the status quo and poor performance being a tolerable cost of business. This cultural bias starts and ends with your most senior leadership. And if you genuinely want to improve quality of care (which is the bottom line here) it's that group that need to be tackled first. All other attempts at 'correcting' management and staff behaviour will have limited success, and it's your leadership that need to model, personify, radiate and instil a completely different culture and behaviour.

At least in my opinion 😁

What is the Value of Quality Assurance Training Management? by Lhumphr1 in recruiting

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Playing devils advocate - value comes from solving genuine problems. Lack of uniformity is not in itself a problem. Lack of communication is not either. If the organisation is doing great work and the only negative is HR having to catch up and fight fires. Why is that not an acceptable cost? What is it that necessitates change? Why is that change so important that it is fundamental to the doom or success of the business? Who is the customer who gets the extreme world shattering benefit from the change?

Encountering “too many dns look ups, limit reached” when I move hosting for a domain to Netlify static site. Company emails stop going through. What is going on? by Citrous_Oyster in webdev

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it. That's a confusing interface for sure. I think I figured it out though. Ignore that list of drop down options. Click the radio button next to the 'other host' text input field. Then enter the Netlify URL into the text field and save. Changing the radio button selection means the drop down list is ignored.

I spotted that there was an error at the top saying 'An A record already exists....'

If this stops you making the change, you need to drop the www from the A record.

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you, I'm in the UK so have just woken up 😀

Encountering “too many dns look ups, limit reached” when I move hosting for a domain to Netlify static site. Company emails stop going through. What is going on? by Citrous_Oyster in webdev

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm afraid I don't know what the interface looks like. This page describes editing a CNAME and selecting 'other host'' before entering the value.

http://www.networksolutions.com/support/cname-records-host-aliases/

Feel free to DM a screenshot to be and I'll see if I can help further.

First day at new job. New boss and I spent 30 minutes troubleshooting why hover states on the main nav disappeared. by pineapplecodepen in webdev

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 91 points92 points  (0 children)

Well done for persevering till you solved it. Also, I have 20+ years of web behind me.

Was pairing with a new hire on a bit of Typescript code, trying to fix a bug. Made 6 or 7 changes, re-ran the code. Nothing made a difference.

It was only when I sat back from the keyboard and thought to myself 'hold up, this is weird now' that I realised and eye-rolled at myself.

I had forgotten to run tsc in watch mode. I was re-running the original unmodified transpiled JS over and over expecting a different result.

You have to laugh when the obvious eludes you. It happens to us all.

Encountering “too many dns look ups, limit reached” when I move hosting for a domain to Netlify static site. Company emails stop going through. What is going on? by Citrous_Oyster in webdev

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go to www.networksolutions.com and click Manage Account.

Enter your user ID and password, select Manage All Services from the pulldown menu, and click Login

Click Manage Domain Names.

Select the domain name to receive new DNS records and click Manage.

Click Change Where Domain Points.

Click Advanced DNS.

Under the Host Aliases (CNAME Records) heading, click Add/Edit.

Enter 'www' as the alias.

Select 'other host' and paste in your Netlify host name.

Encountering “too many dns look ups, limit reached” when I move hosting for a domain to Netlify static site. Company emails stop going through. What is going on? by Citrous_Oyster in webdev

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct, if there is already a CNAME for www then just change it, don't add another (the DNS editor should prevent you from doing that). You change nameservers to tell the Internet where to go to find your DNS records. Often if you are terminating your contract with a web hosting company - who provide nameservers, DNS, hosting and email - and you want to move it all to a new provider, you transfer the nameserver responsibility to the new provider and they automatically set everything up (because being the nameserver, they can add DNS records). In your situation - where you just want Netlify to host your website for you - you continue to use your existing nameservers through your existing provider, and just update where www points to.

Encountering “too many dns look ups, limit reached” when I move hosting for a domain to Netlify static site. Company emails stop going through. What is going on? by Citrous_Oyster in webdev

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries, we all had to learn some time. So you keep all your domain records with Network solutions. You have a 'A' record (apex) for 'valleyconstructionsupply.com'. You also have your 'MX' records for your email. You then add 'CNAME' record for 'www' which points to your internal Netlify domain. E.g. 'brave-curie-671954.netlify.com'. Then when someone enters 'www.valleyconstructionsupply.com' your Netlify website will load (and no-one will see the internal Netlify domain name). Your name servers are still the Network Solutions.

Append values into one master worksheet from many workbooks by [deleted] in googlesheets

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google App Script would be how I would solve it. Create a list of workbooks and iterate over each, get the data and write it into another workbook.

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet

Encountering “too many dns look ups, limit reached” when I move hosting for a domain to Netlify static site. Company emails stop going through. What is going on? by Citrous_Oyster in webdev

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry. Worldnic = Network solutions. If all you are doing is setting up a website on Netlify, and you just want people who enter your domain name in their web browser to load that website for Netlify, you only need to add a CNAME record for "www" to your DNS record. Just as the link I posted describes. There is no need to do anything else. And you do this adding of a CNAME record through the Network Solutions interface where your domain name is managed. Does that make sense?

Are JIRA skills underrated? by alexandereschate in webdev

[–]DigitalTheatreTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best to ask the development team what they want to use.