Thoughts about web development

Every programmer needs to be a typist, so I was always trying to improve my typing speed. In this article I’ll share some websites that can help you practice your typing skills and my experience of using them.
Most of typing tutors are aimed for general english, and do not provide practice for special characters used frequently in programming.
Typing tutorials and online tools especially for programmers are mostly based on open source code and allow you to practice typing the key sequences that appear in real code, even the awkward characters in code.

1. mouthwatering

Source: My mouth is watering already. [Open Languages episode March 23]
Definition: food that is mouth-watering looks or smells extremely good
eg. …more than 150 mouthwatering recipes.

1. meet your match

Source: Phoebe: Uh-huh. You’ve met your match Rachel Green. [Friends S06E07, when Rachel and Phoebe had a quarrel over answering machine message.]
Definition: to be in a situation in which your opponent is as good as you or better; 棋逢对手

1. state of the art

Source: Wayne: I spent two years developing this machine, it’s absolutely state of the art. [Friends S06E21, when Wayne talked his robot.]
Definition: using the most modern and recently developed methods, materials, or knowledge
eg. His new laptop is state-of-the-art.

1. unsolicited

Source: rules for unsolicited information [Health Information Privacy Code (Health 101)]
Definition: not asked for and often not wanted
eg. unsolicited advice/unsolicited calls

1. “re:” in the subject line of emails

Most people take this “re:” to stand for ‘reference’ or ‘regarding’. However, this is a misconception. What “re” actually stands for is the Latin word “res”. “Re” is the ablative form of the noun “res”, which means ‘thing’ or ‘affair’. Therefore, “re” means ‘about the thing’ or ‘about the affair’.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a UI framework that creates desktop client applications, and it is a subset of the .NET Framework. The WPF development platform supports a broad set of application development features, including an application model, resources, controls, graphics, layout, data binding, documents, and security. WPF uses the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) to provide a declarative model for application programming.

I planned to finish Professional JavaScript for Web Developers 3rd Edition within three months. I downloaded an electronic version from Github, and the main content has 900 pages. I would read 10 pages daily after work on average, then I need 90 days for 900 pages from Feb 10 - May 10.

To have a deep understanding of Javascript by some questions gathering from websites.

I would like to try generate entities from my existing database. Unfortunately, I was always receiving this error message:

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[Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\ContextErrorException] 
Warning: A non-numeric value encountered

I tried a couple of key words to google, and finally I found the answer from this link. It’s a very simple command:

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composer update