Over the past 6 months, I’ve had the pleasure of working on a project that sought to use d3.js to generate custom graphs on the fly. The learning curve was a bit steep and I still wouldn’t consider myself a d3 expert, but we’ve managed to come up with a tool that allows users to select one or more data sets and graph them over a custom time span with options to tweak line colors and styles. The customer was pleased, but now that they had these impressive graphs, they wanted to be able to export them as images for use in their reports.
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How did I get here?
The more I mull over ideas regarding what to blog about, the more I come to conclusion that I can’t get into what’s going on today without talking about how I got here.
My first exposure to programming came in the 6th grade, at Beaumont Middle School, where I took an Introduction to BASIC class. The next year, I was grasping at ideas for a science project when I realized that the library where the science fair was being held had an Apple IIe computer located front and center. I figured I could take the easy way out Continue reading How did I get here?
Away we go
Welcome to my professional home. I’m Josh Piper and I’m a full-stack web developer, located in Portland, Oregon. I’m a huge fan of Twitter, but sometimes I need more than 140 characters to document the thoughts rattling around in my head. I hope to use this site to document some of interesting things I learn along the way.