👋Hello! I'm James

I'm a software engineer with 11 years of experience across diverse areas of print and web design. I love blending the art of design with the technicality of programming to create captivating user experiences. As a natural problem solver, I enjoy learning new ways to bring ideas to life while maintaining accessible and clean code. I want to continue working with diverse, passionate teams to improve the world we live in.

🔭 My most recent project: Shower Thoughts
📚 I’m currently learning the T3 Stack
🖌️ You can view some of my projects below or at https://jamesneff.com
💬 Ask me about HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, React, or even Graphic Design
📫 How to reach me [email protected]
🐝 Fun fact: I find bees fascinating

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Glimpse into the Universe

A responsive web app that allows the user to infinitely scroll through NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day archive. Supports both videos and photos.

HTML5 | CSS3 | Javascript

Shower Thoughts

A full-stack web app where users can log in to their profile, find their list of thoughts, add new thoughts, and edit/delete thoughts with a simple user interface.

MongoDB | Express | Handlebars | Node.js | Google OAuth

jamesneff.com

Personal portfolio site including links to my projects as well as my technical skills and ways to get in contact with me.

Figma | Next.js | Framer Motion

Andriana's Pizza Toppings

A simple full-stack CRUD app to see what toppings truly belong on a pizza. Users are able to vote on, change their vote, and add what toppings they like.

Homework Bound

Worked with a team of developers on full-stack application with MVC architecture to allow students to keep track of their classroom assignments and upcoming tests. Users can create, save, edit, and delete their assignments while setting an upcoming due date. Additional dependencies used: bcrypt, dotenv, express-session, mongoose, morgan, nodemon, passport, and validator.

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Getting Started with GitHub

👋 Welcome to GitHub Learning Lab's "Introduction to GitHub"

To get started, I’ll guide you through some important first steps in coding and collaborating on GitHub.

👇 This arrow means you can expand the window! Click on them throughout the course to find more information.

What is GitHub?

I'm glad you asked! Many people come to GitHub because they want to contribute to open source ^📖 projects, or they're invited by teammates or classmates who use it for their projects. Why do people use GitHub for these projects?

At its heart, GitHub is a collaboration platform.

From software to legal documents, you can count on GitHub to help you do your best work with the collaboration and security tools your team needs. With GitHub, you can keep projects completely private, invite the world to collaborate, and streamline every step of your project.

GitHub is also a powerful version control tool.

GitHub uses Git ^📖, the most popular open source version control software, to track every contribution and contributor ^📖 to your project--so you know exactly where every line of code came from.

GitHub helps people do much more.

GitHub is used to build some of the most advanced technologies in the world. Whether you're visualizing data or building a new game, there's a whole community and set of tools on GitHub that can get you to the next step. This course starts with the basics, but we'll dig into the rest later!

📺 Video: What is GitHub?

Exploring a GitHub repository

📺 Video: Exploring a repository

More features

The video covered some of the most commonly-used features. Here are a few other items you can find in GitHub repositories:

Project boards: Create Kanban-style task tracking board within GitHub
Wiki: Create and store relevant project documentation
Insights: View a drop-down menu that contains links to analytics tools for your repository including:
- Pulse: Find information about the work that has been completed and the work that’s in-progress in this project dashboard
- Graphs: Graphs provide a more granular view of the repository activity including who contributed to the repository, who forked it, and when they completed the work

Special Files

In the video you learned about a special file called the README.md. Here are a few other special files you can add to your repositories:

CONTRIBUTING.md: The CONTRIBUTING.md is used to describe the process for contributing to the repository. A link to the CONTRIBUTING.md file is shown anytime someone creates a new issue or pull request.
ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md: The ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md is another file you can use to pre-populate the body of an issue. For example, if you always need the same types of information for bug reports, include it in the issue template, and every new issue will be opened with your recommended starter text.

Using issues

This is an issue ^📖: a place where you can have conversations about bugs in your code, code review, and just about anything else.

Issue titles are like email subject lines. They tell your collaborators what the issue is about at a glance. For example, the title of this issue is Getting Started with GitHub.

Using GitHub Issues

Using GitHub issues

Issues are used to discuss ideas, enhancements, tasks, and bugs. They make collaboration easier by:

Providing everyone (even future team members) with the complete story in one place
Allowing you to cross-link to other issues and pull requests ^📖
Creating a single, comprehensive record of how and why you made certain decisions
Allowing you to easily pull the right people and teams into a conversation with @-mentions

📺 Video: Using issues

Managing notifications

📺 Video: Watching, notifications, stars, and explore

Once you've commented on an issue or pull request, you'll start receiving email notifications when there's activity in the thread.

How to silence or unmute specific conversations

Go to the issue or pull request
Under "Notifications", click the Unsubscribe button on the right to silence notifications or Subscribe to unmute them

You'll see a short description that explains your current notification status.

How to customize notifications in Settings

Click your profile icon
Click Settings
Click Notifications from the menu on the left and adjust your notification preferences

Repository notification options

Watch: You'll receive a notification when a new issue, pull request or comment is posted, and when an issue is closed or a pull request is merged
Not watching: You'll no longer receive notifications unless you're @-mentioned
Ignore: You'll no longer receive any notifications from the repository

How to review notifications for the repositories you're watching

Click your profile icon
Click Settings
Click Notification from the menu on the left
Click on the things you’re watching link
Select the Watching tab
Click the Unwatch button to disable notifications, or Watch to enable them

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Glimpse into the Universe

Shower Thoughts

jamesneff.com

Andriana's Pizza Toppings

Homework Bound

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