I created a BMI calculator to watch my weight. This is simple Javascript skinned with BootstrapJS

Bootstrap is an open-source front-end framework for building responsive and visually appealing web applications. It provides a collection of pre-designed HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components, as well as a responsive grid system, that streamline the process of designing and developing consistent and modern user interfaces.

The primary goals of Bootstrap are to:

Ease of Use: Bootstrap simplifies web development by offering a set of ready-to-use components and styles. Developers can quickly build and prototype web interfaces without having to start from scratch.

Responsive Design: Bootstrap's responsive grid system allows developers to create layouts that adapt to different screen sizes and devices, ensuring a consistent user experience across desktops, tablets, and mobile devices.

Consistency: By using Bootstrap's design and components, developers can achieve a consistent and cohesive look and feel throughout their web application, regardless of the team's design skills.

Customizability: While Bootstrap provides a default theme, it's highly customizable. Developers can easily modify colors, typography, and other design elements to match their branding.

Cross-Browser Compatibility: Bootstrap is designed to work across different web browsers, helping ensure that your application looks and functions consistently for users.

Key features and components of Bootstrap include:

Responsive Grid System: Bootstrap's grid system allows developers to create flexible and responsive layouts by organizing content into rows and columns.

Typography: Bootstrap provides a set of typography styles for headings, paragraphs, lists, and other text elements.

CSS and Components: Bootstrap offers a wide range of CSS classes and components for buttons, forms, navigation bars, modals, alerts, cards, and more.

Well it was a long cold winter and I have been in deep with the JavaScript. Now that spring is here, I am booting up with some good old Java Rest because I would like to do some more backend development now. I've done backend work here and there through out my career, but really need to to do more Java. 

So I put together a simple REST API in Spring Boot with authentication that could be used to start any project. I like JWT personally over other methods I have used in the past. This simple api lets you register, login and create and edit post articles. I set it up with the database with Docker for easy installation.

In case you don't know, Spring Boot is an open-source Java-based framework that simplifies the process of building production-ready, stand-alone, and highly scalable web applications and microservices. It is a part of the broader Spring Framework ecosystem and aims to provide developers with a rapid development and deployment experience by offering a set of pre-configured defaults and conventions.

Key features and concepts of Spring Boot include:

Opinionated Defaults: Spring Boot comes with a collection of sensible defaults and pre-configured settings for common tasks, reducing the need for manual configuration. This allows developers to get started quickly without the need for extensive boilerplate code.

Auto-Configuration: Spring Boot employs auto-configuration to automatically configure application components based on the classpath and the dependencies present in the project. It simplifies the configuration process and reduces the need for explicit configuration.

Embedded Web Server: Spring Boot includes a choice of embedded web servers like Apache Tomcat, Jetty, and Undertow. This means that you can package your application as a standalone executable JAR or WAR file without needing to deploy it to a separate web server.

Measurabl is a software platform designed to help organizations manage and report on their sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. It provides tools for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data related to sustainability initiatives, energy usage, water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and other key metrics.

For the past 6 years I spent with Measurabl, I led the upgrade of a web application to a modern framework with a custom build with new dependencies for theming, internationalization and deployment chosen and implemented by me. Over the years, I directly engineered a library of reusable presentational components such as tables, forms, maps and charts which I used in multiple premium subscription features of the application. Additionally, I integrated many 3rd party services into the app with internationalization, reporting and deployment/debugging technologies. 

In collaboration with the development team, we developed a web application and optimized the quality and efficiency of the CI/CD process. With a passion for building rich UI frontend applications and efficient APIs and proficiency in software technologies has allowed me to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences. Resolving client demands and simplifying technical issues.

One of the premium subscription features I engineered was the Physical Climate Risk Report. This report required a client side component base UI to communicate with a REST API to render climate risk data as a report for the customer's portfolio. The UI report consists of filters to refine the results to specific climate risks and locations with the results produced on a page with charts, tables and a maps. There is also a PDF export rendered on the backend server with additional charting libraries.

Parse.com is or was an online Mongo database service and API for web applications. Parse provided a nice GUI complete for managing the data complete with Class Level Permissions which made it very easy to get user role permission based application up and running. Not to mention that they provided their own API libraries for Javascript, PHP, Android and IOS. It provided a REST API or you could just use one of ther API libraries to connect and transfer data. I used it developing a real estate search application for web and mobile. 

Founded in 2011, Facebook purchased Parse.com in 2013 for $85 million and recently announced that it will be shut down in January 28 2017. Thanks Facebook. I guess they just wanted to keep it all to them selves. Well not necessarily. Parse has been porting the server and other components to git hub and now it os open source so all the existing customers can continue running the Parse framework on their own servers. I personally love the GUI for managing the database. It very useful. 

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This true evidence makes a lot of sense if you consider the water theory mentioned in my previous blog post.

I bought this Veho 360bt speaker on Ebay for $30. It connects to your a2dp compatible Bluetooth device such as a phone, tablet, or pc just as any wireless headset but it produces nice loud audio perfect for playing music at remote locations such as the beach or picnic. It also features a standard 3.5 audio jack for non-Bluetooth devices. It is powered by a lithium battery that lasts 4 hours and charges through usb. I recommend picking one of these up at your first most convenience.

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Its pretty awsome overall. Everything you want in a touch pc not limited by IOS or Android markets, It runs windows 7 and can handle Adobe CS. Even pressure sensitive in photoshop. The only downside is even though the tablet never gets hot, for some reason the fan is always on. I read that this is a bug not yet solved. Still, I find it to be the best computer for all general purposes.

UPDate: After sending the tablet into Asus, the tablet was returned With a quiet fan making this the Best Tablet on the market.