Web Development – Jamal J8 Ahmed

Day 100: The End of the Daily Blogs

j8ahmed — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:19:47 +0000

I am still on my Backend Development study track. I was working through the API development section from The Odin Project’s course. Well I have now completed 800 days. I ended it off by starting to read through an article on REST API design best practices. A lot of the material aligns with what I have read so far from the tutorials. I think I need to build some more projects before coming back to...

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Day 99: My Backend Skills Are Improving

j8ahmed — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 23:52:02 +0000

I am still on my Backend Development study track. I was working through the API development section from The Odin Project’s course. I went back and took some notes on the command found in most shells as a default installation. I started writing more notes on how to use it with the flag and different HTTP request methods. I had originally written some vary basic notes on the CLI program last year...

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Day 98: CURL, Postman, and Insomnia

j8ahmed — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 05:10:26 +0000

I am still on my Backend Development study track. I was working through the API development section from The Odin Project’s course. I continued to read through some of the support material for the API tutorial. The tutorial uses the CLI command called . I have used it a few times in the past but I am not very comfortable working with it. Now, this tutorial has used it outside of the basic method.

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Day 97: APIs with Other Languages?

j8ahmed — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 01:29:06 +0000

I am still on my Backend Development study track. I was working through the API development section from The Odin Project’s course. I continued to go through the API tutorial and read through some of the supporting documents mentioned in the article. The article mentioned the use of modularizing routes. This is something that I have done before with and . At this point I am starting to become...

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Day 96: RESTful and RESTish APIs

j8ahmed — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 17:02:46 +0000

I am still on my Backend Development study track. I was working through the API development section from The Odin Project’s course. I continued going through the API tutorial with and . I am pretty much done but I reviewed the material on authentication and permissions. It was interesting to see the topic come up again. I had a moment of panic when I started to think about applying authentication...

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Day 95: API Design & System Architecture

j8ahmed — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 04:25:29 +0000

I am still on my Backend Development study track. I was working through the API development section from The Odin Project’s course. Moved on to reading the articles provided on API design best practices. I don’t know how much I will take away since I need to practice building more than perfecting designs. I am just giving it a decent read through and starting some notes but eventually I will come...

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Day 94: CORS – Finally Figured It Out

j8ahmed — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 01:00:17 +0000

I am still on my Backend Development study track. I was working through the API development section from The Odin Project’s course. I had to go back and re-watch some of the videos on CORS to better understand preflight requests and how that effects . From what I understood, preflight requests are additional HTTP requests that are required before certain other HTTP requests can be made.

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Day 93: Videos are Better Than Articles???

j8ahmed — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 04:35:14 +0000

I am still on my Backend Development study track. I was working through the API development section from The Odin Project’s course. Decided to try watching some videos to better understand how works. So far I had really only read articles seriously. Since that was not really clicking, I thought hearing someone explain things might help connect some missing dots. The challenge with self study is...

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Day 92: Multi-Drafting Notes Is Normal

j8ahmed — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 02:11:17 +0000

I am still on my Backend Development study track. I was working through the API development section from The Odin Project’s course. I was trying to organize my rough notes on and API development. I don’t know everything yet but I have at least learned a few things about both topics. I was trying to make sense of it all and so I thought organizing my notes would help. Fortunately and unfortunately...

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Day 91: CORS Package and Express

j8ahmed — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 15:27:21 +0000

I switched back to my Backend Development study track for the weekend. I got back to the API development section from The Odin Project’s course. I started reading the documentation for the package that is used in tandem with the framework and . It was not too difficult to understand the actual code however, the underlying concepts still kept me doubtful. Learning about feels similar to when I was...

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