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Selfie Pro 7:27 am on June 2, 2025
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Time for change!

Change

Change is imminent – switching lines

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Selfie Pro 1:30 am on May 18, 2025
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Progress no. 1747555359

My Fitbit Surge straps failed. First thing that broke was the strap holder, so I used a Velcro, that I use for cables, to hold the strap. Although the battery is failing, the battery is still holding enough charge to get me one to two days of exercise before requiring a recharge. But today I noticed that the inner area of the strap was protruding and noticed that the straps were breaking from the main unit. So I removed the straps and will replace.

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I looked up the cost on Amazon for the straps and battery, the cost is about $25. I checked eBay and noticed there was a seller selling a Fitbit Surge new in box (NIB) for $39.95. So I purchased.

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I hope that the battery on the new unit still holds a charge. These are ten year old units and I do not know the real life of a shelved lithium battery. But from what I read, lithium batteries do not go bad when stored, rather, the majority of the damage to the battery comes from when the battery is charged and discharged. Also, how the battery is stored. So hopefully I get a good battery. 🤞

I will provide an update once I have received the new unit. I might also replace the strap. I found a set on Amazon for $8.

Update: May 22, 2025 – The unit I received was not new, and the seller provided me a refund. I discarded the item due to the item was filthy.

I ordered another and should be arriving any day:

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I will provide an update once received.

What I received:
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The loop to hang was broken and the box was dinged up. I do not know if the cause of the box’s damage was due to shipping or was already like that, as the ad image is not what I received.

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This is the bag the item was shipped in. 👎

The seal seems to be intact, so I presume that the device is New In Box (NIB).

#fitbit

Selfie Pro 5:05 pm on May 11, 2025
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PHP 8 Objects, Patterns, and…

PHP 8 Objects, Patterns, and Practice
Part I: Objects
Chapter Title Start Date Target End Date
Chapter 1 PHP: Design and Management 05/11/2025 05/13/2025
Chapter 2 PHP and Objects
Chapter 3 Object Basics
Chapter 4 Advanced Features
Chapter 5 Object Tools
Part II: Objects
Chapter Title Start Date End Date
Chapter 6 Objects and Design
Chapter 7 What Are Design Patterns? Why Use Them?
Chapter 8 Some Pattern Principles
Chapter 9 Generating Objects
Chapter 10 Patterns for Flexible Object Programming
Chapter 11 Performing and Representing Tasks
Chapter 12 Enterprise Patterns
Chapter 13 Database Patterns
Part III: Objects
Chapter Title Start Date End Date
Chapter 14 Good (and Bad) Practice
Chapter 15 PHP Standards
Chapter 16 PHP Using and Creating Components with Composer
Chapter 17 Version Control with Git
Chapter 18 Testing with PHPUnit
Chapter 19 Automated Build with Phing
Chapter 20 Vagrant
Chapter 21 Continuous Integration
Chapter 22 Objects, Patterns, Practice

#programming

Selfie Pro 1:47 pm on June 22, 2024
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Learning React 2nd Edition – Kirupa Chinnathambi

Amazon (Addison-Wesley Professional)

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Meet the Spread Operator

1. Introducing React
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06/22/2024 @ 18:51 Old-School Multipage Design
New-School Single-Page Apps
Meet React
Conclusion 06/22/2024 @ 21:51
2. Building Your First React App
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06/24/2024 @ 08:58 Dealing with JSX
Getting Your React On
Displaying Your Name
It’s All Still familiar
Conclusion 06/24/2024 @ 12:02
3. Components in React
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06/24/2024 @ 12:14 Quick Review of Functions
Changing How We Deal with UI
Meet the React Component
Dealing with Children
Conclusion 06/26/2024 @ 14:27
4. Styling in React
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Displaying Some Vowels
Styling React Content Using CSS
Styling Content the React Way
Conclusion
5. Creating Complex Components
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From Visuals to components
Creating the Component
The Square Component
The Label Component
Why Component Composability Rocks
Conclusion
6. Transferring Properties
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Problem Overview
Detailed Look at the Problem
A Better Way to transfer Properties
Conclusion
7. Meet JSX…Again!
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What Happens with JSX?
JSX Quirks to Remember
Capitalization, HTML Elements, and Components
Your JSX Can Be Anywhere
Conclusion
8. Dealing with State in React
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Using state
Getting Our Counter On
Optional: The Full code
Conclusion
9. Going from Data to UI in React
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The Example
Your JSX Can Be Anywhere, Part II
Dealing with Arrays
Conclusion
10. Events in React
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Listening and Reacting to Events
Making the Button Click Do something
Event Properties
More Eventing Shenanigans
React…Why?Why?
Conclusion
11. The Component Lifecycle
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Conclusion
12. Accessing DOM Elements in React
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The Colorizer Example
Meet Refs
Using Portals
Conclusion
13. Setting Up Your React Dev Environment Easily
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Meet Create React
Creating Our HellowWorld App
Creating a Production Build
Conclusion
14. Working with External Data in React
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web Request 101
It’s React Time
Getting the IP Address
Conclusion
15. Building an Awesome Todo List App in React
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Getting Started
Creating the Initial UI
Building the Rest of the App
Displaying the Items
Animation! Animation! Animation!
Conclusion
16. Creating a Sliding Menu in React
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How the Sliding Menu Works
setting Up the Sliding Menu
Getting Started
Showing and Hiding the Menu
Conclusion
17. Avoiding Unnecessary Renders in React
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About the render Method
Optimizing render Calls
Seeing the render Calls
Conclusion
18. Creating a Single-Page App in React Using React Router
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The Example
Getting Started
Building Our Single-Page App
It’s the Little Things
Conclusion
19. Introduction to Redux
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What is Redux
Building a Simple App Using Redux
Conclusion
20. Using Redux with React
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managing React State with Redux
Conclusion

#Book, #React

*Notes – Chapter 2 took longer than expected, as the in the example was not rendering, to find out ReactDom and ReactDOM is not equivalent. I knew the case sensitive part, but just missed the two letters (om/OM) not being the same. I am using Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and I did an autocompleted, and VS Code used ReactDom. 🙁 Took about forty-five minutes to see the difference after troubleshooting and reading articles why my ReactDom.render was not working.

Selfie Pro 12:00 pm on June 21, 2024
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Python – Skills for All

Python

Skills for All

PE1: Module 1: Introduction to Python and Computer Programming
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1.0 Welcome to Python Essentials 1 (4)
1.1 Section 1 – Introduction to Programming (7)
1.2 Section 2 – Introduction to Python (9)
1.3 Section 3 – Downloading and Installing Python (5)
1.4 Module 1 Completion – Module Test
PE1: Module 2: Python Data Types, Variables, Operators, and Basic I/o Operations
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2.1 Section 1 – The “Hello, World!” Program (15)
2.2 Section 2 – Python literals (8)
2.3 Section 3 – Operators – data manipulation tools (5)
2.4 Section 4 – Variables (12)
2.5 Section 5 – Comments (5)
2.6 Section 6 – Interaction with the user (13)
2.7 Module 2 – Completion – MODULE TEST
PE1: Module 3: Boolean Values, Conditional Execution, Loops, Lists and List Processing, Logical and Bitwise Operations
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3.1 Section 1 – Making decisions in Python (14)
3.2 Section 2 – Loops in Python (17)
3.3 Section 3 – Logic and bit operations in Python (8)
3.4 Section 4 – Lists (13)
3.5 Section 5 – Sorting simple lists: the bubble sort algorithm (5)
3.6 Section 6 – Operations on lists (8)
3.7 Section 7 – Lists in advanced applications (4)
3.8 Module 3 Completion -Module Test
PE1: Module 4: Functions, Tuples, Dictionaries, Exceptions, and Data Processing
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4.1 Section 1 – Functions (7)
4.2 Section 2 – How functions communicate with their environment (7)
4.3 Section 3 – Returning a result from a function (10)
4.4 Section 4 – Scopes in Python 57)
4.5 Section 5 – Creating multi-parameter functions (7)
4.6 Section 6 – Tuples and dictionaries (7)
4.7 Section 7 – Exceptions (15)
4.8 Module 4 Completion – Module Test
Python Essentials 1 (PE1): Course Final Exam
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Final Project
Final Test
End of Course Survey
PCEP – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer Certification Exam
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PCEP – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer Certification Exam (5)

#Certification

Selfie Pro 10:25 am on June 21, 2024
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JavaScript – Skills for All

Skills for All

6.2 Section 3 – Code Debugging and Troubleshooting (13)

JSE: Module 1: Introduction to JavaScript and Computer Programming
Date Started Description Date Completed
1.0 Welcome to JavaScript Essentials 1 (6)
1.1 Section 1 – About JavaScript (8)
1.2 Section 2 – Setting up programming environment (6)
1.3 Section 3 – Hello, World! (10)
1.4 Module 1 Completion – Module Test
JSE: Module 2: Variables, Data Types, Type Casting, and Comments
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2.0 Section 1 – Variables (15)
2.1 Section 2 – Data types and type casting – Part 1 (11)
2.2 Section 3 – Data types and type casting – Part 2 (5)
2.3 Section 4 – Comments (4)
2.4 Module 2 Completion – Module Test
JSE: Module 3: Operator and User Interaction
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3.0 Section 1 – Assignment, arithmetic, and logical operators (10)
3.1 Section 2 – String, comparison, and other JS operators (5)
3.2 Section 3 – Interacting with the user (5)
3.3 Module 3 Completion – Module Test
JSE: Module 4: Control Flow – Conditional Execution and Loops
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4.0 Section 1 – Conditional execution (9)
4.1 Section 2 – Loops (12)
4.2 Module 4 Completion – Module Test
JSE: Module 5: Functions
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5.0 Section 1 – Functions – Part 1 (7)
5.1 Section 2 – Function – Part 2 (12)
5.2 Module 5 Completion – Mudule Test
JSE: Module 6: Errors, exceptions, debugging, and troubleshooting
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6.0 Section 1 – Errors and Exceptions – Part 1 (5)
6.1 Section 2 – Errors and Exceptions – Part 2 (8)
6.3 Module d6 Completion – Module Test
JSE: Final Test
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Course Completion – Final Test
Earn JSE Certification (3)
End of Course Survey
JSE: Certified Entry-Level JavaScript Programmer Exam
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JSE – Certified Entry-Level javaScript Programmer Exam

#Certification

Selfie Pro 12:36 pm on June 20, 2024
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PHP Zend

Zend

PHP Introduction 1: Installing PHP
Development Evironments
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03/4/2024 PHP Development Environments 03/4/2024
Installing PHP
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03/4/2024 Two Ways to Install PHP 03/4/2024
03/4/2024 Installing an AMPP Package 03/4/2024
03/4/2024 Installing ZendPHP 03/4/2024
PHP Virtualization
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03/4/2024 PHP Virtualization 03/4/2024
PHP Introduction 2: PHP Basics
PHP Basics
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PHP Scripts
Comments
Operator Types
Variables and Constants
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Variables and Constants
Strings
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Strings
Arrays
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Arrays

#Certification, #PHP, #Programming

Selfie Pro 8:49 pm on March 31, 2024  

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Selfie Pro 9:27 pm on March 25, 2024  

Daily walk

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Selfie Pro 9:03 pm on March 25, 2024  

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