So after last week’s challenge, I decided to continue on and try something new this week. This time, my focus was on something I didn’t have a whole lot of experience in, which was hooking into the ASP.NET error handling system and writing my own custom exception error page to replace any pre-existing one.
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Lately I’ve been wanting to spend more of my free time building small projects to challenge myself. One challenge I set up for myself this weekend was to build a JavaScript project using zero external plugins — something that could run on its own. The other challenge was to build something that would also be useful. The result is sl.js.
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This took me two days to figure out and I’m not entirely sure why it happened, but throwing it out there in case someone else runs into the same problem…
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This past month I started work on a new web application. Of course, with any new project, I like to throw some chaos into the mix and try learning either a new framework or language. This time, I decided to write the entire backend of it in F#. I know nothing about F#, so this should be interesting.
Back on January 9th, while working on what was likely a very important project, I received an email inviting me to purchase an Amazon Echo device. As I had been waiting months on the invitation list, I jumped for joy (well, I got really excited at least) and spent the next few minutes ordering the device, followed by another month and a half of waiting.
On February 21st, my Echo device arrived and the journey of testing yet another voice command system began.
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