Samuel DeSantis

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JavaScript Element.closest()

Summary: I will try to provide a brief overview of closest() and provide an example that I think helps show when it can be useful. According to MDN Web Docs: The closest() method traverses the Element and its parents (heading toward the document root) until it finds a node that…

Programming

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Feb 28

JavaScript Fetch API Example

Summary: Brief overview of Fetch API. Fetch is a great tool for retrieving and sending data. Granted, it gets much more technical then this, but on a basic level what you want it to do is retrieve or send data with some action. See RESTful routes for more information on…

Programming

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Feb 22

Flatiron School: Phase 5 message-board-throwback

Summary: The message-board-throwback project was inspired by some of the message boards from the late 90’s/early 20’s where people could message back and forth online. The chats are sent and read essentially real time and recorded. The project uses a React + Redux frontend and Rails API backend. React is…

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Flatiron School: Phase 5 message-board-throwback

Jan 13

js-portfolio-project

Project Summary The inspiration for this project comes from my favorite hobby, rock climbing. I thought it’d would be a cool idea to design a website where I could log my climbs to keep track of my progress and achievements. …

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Nov 30, 2021

Flatiron School: project-management

GitHub - Samuel-DeSantis/project-management I am currently working as an electrical engineering at an engineering consulting firm. The electrical team that I am on…github.com For the Sinatra Project I decided to build a Project Management application. Currently at work our small team has been using an in-house resource management tool built by one of my coworkers with MS Office. The program is buggy at best and often times crashes. …

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Nov 20, 2021

Flatiron School: Trip Planner

Summary: Trip planning website with OmniAuth and User sign in GitHub - Samuel-DeSantis/trip-planner: Flatiron School RoR Project - Trip Planner You can't perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or window. You signed out in another tab or…github.com When the user goes to the Trip Planner website they first encounter the home page. The home page gives the user the option to: Sign up, Sign in locally, or Sign in with GitHub. When working on the sign in…

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Jan 28, 2021

Flatiron School: cli-stock-information

Summary: Provides information for the specified stock symbol(s). Github: https://github.com/Samuel-DeSantis/cli-stock-information Google Finance Google Finance offers great key statistics that are easily accessible for web scraping programs. Using its simple URL formatting it’s possible to search for essentially any stock supported on Google Finance. …

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