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Sara Ounissi To develop a feature in JavaScript, I started by looking into the events related to the keyboard. I found three events : keypress, keydown, keyup. keypress was only happening when the user pressed a char key, and I also needed to get the event when the user uses the supr button. So I thought I …
One simple feature I had to code for work was adding a remove cross button at the end of an input to be able to clear the input faster. I thought it would be very easy to code, but as always I encountered a lot of surprises before being able to implement the feature successfully. …
Here is my situation: I had to code a dev that I cut into two different commits. I asked for a review from my team and got feedback on the first commit. I realized I didn’t know how to amend a commit that wasn’t the last one in the git history. I really didn’t want …
Let’s talk about our moments of shame. The “bugs” You spend hours on, to finally realize it is actually not a bug, the problem comes from you. No worries, it happens to all of us, just turn these moments of shame into moments of humor and self-derision. Believe me, it is better to laugh about …
I thought leaving coding would make me happy and change my life. I was wrong, but let me tell you more about that. Remember when I shared with you the feeling that I didn’t belong when starting studying computer science (link to the article). You might think the feeling had gone. It did for a …
It is never easy for me to use z-index especially when you are adding code to an existing project, and you don’t know the whole structure. I was stuck with that for a while, adding z-index on every level of div, but nothing was working. Thanks to StackOverflow, I was able to understand the problem …
When I started to study computer science, my first feeling was clear: I don’t belong here! You might wonder what could make me feel that. I will develop. This feeling is not new for me, growing up in France being from an Arab ascendance and Muslim makes you often feel like you don’t belong in …
Read moreFeeling I don’t belong during my first weeks studying computer science
Funny story! When I started to study computer science in college, I knew nothing about coding. I had never seen one single line of code in my life, except a little algorithm we did in high school using our calculator. My computer use was limited to the basics. Watching YouTube, sending emails, chatting with my …
One of the hardest things I had to deal with in 2020 was to find a new job while I was pregnant. First, let me explain more about my situation at that time. Everything started in New-York I moved from France to the USA for a job in a French company. I signed for an …
It is quite easy to add a placeholder on a select in HTML, you just need to add an option with the text you need as a placeholder. The only thing to look for is to empty the value, add the two properties selected and disabled. <select> <option value="" disabled selected>Select your option</option> <option value="test">Test</option> …
Customizing checkboxes is a little tricky, it requires a lot of additional CSS to make it look nice. I had to work on a custom checkbook, but it ended up not working. Here is the issue I encountered. The mistake I made on the custom checkbox When you create a checkbox, you need an input …
I was trying to apply the CSS property vertical-align: middle on an element but no luck, it was not working as expected. Here is an example of non-functioning code : .container { background-color: red; height: 50px; width: 100px; } .text { vertical-align: middle; } The first option would be to set a line-height on the …
I am very new to Mac, so I am struggling a lot using basic tools. I was following a documented process to install PHP, and it was asked to run the command : However, I got the error message “xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use “Software Update” to install updates”. After some …
When you are working on a project, it is very useful to know the history of the modifications using git. If you are coding on Visual Studio Code like me, you should activate git blame by following these steps : Open Visual Studio Code Press Ctrl+Shift+X (Windows) or ⇧+⌘+X (Mac) Type blame Click install on Git Blame How to …
While working on a project on the framework Symphony, I faced this error : “The class xxxx has a coupling between objects value of 13. Consider to reduce the number of dependencies under 13.” I looked at the phpmd property CouplingBetweenObjects online to see how to overwrite it, you can have a look at the …
I am very new to node but I had to use it in a project to send a request to register my Bot. I read a lot of tutorials and I was lost at first, there were so many ways to make a post request but I couldn’t’ figure out which one to use. However, …
I had to use node for a project, I read some tutorial online and in almost all the sources I found that’s how they imported a dependency : However my mentor was here to explain that this was an old way of importing in javascript, but it doesn’t work properly with typscript. Instead you better …
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Hello world! This is my first post on my website, I can’t wait to share all the things I learn with you guys. As a web developer, I learned a lot at school and also at work, but there are still so many things I learn every day and I will be glad to share …