Into Open Source with Khang Nguyen

Hello, folks! October has arrived (or at least arriving when I am writing this) which means HacktoberFEST 2019 has commenced. As many participants around the globe, I am starting my contribution to the event. My plan for the event is simple! I will make 1 pull request for each of the 4 weeks of October. Stalling no more! I have already worked on my first contribution and I want to share with you folks about it. Issue #1: Creating a simple Progressive Web App ! Links: Repository  | Issue  | Pull Request To recap... The web app is a simply tool for developers to know what is the size of the current viewport by opening the app on the device that they want to measure. The app is written in JavaScript and requires an improvement - offline working capability. The app is interactive when we resize the viewport and the code for the app is very simple with only static resources. The app's simple UIAdd caption As I have planned in my  previous post about Ha...

Greeting everyone on the Internet! It is the end of September. At this time every year, many people all around the globe join the Hacktoberfest. They are developers, IT students or just someone with interest in programming and open source. They come together with one goal in their mind: to earn themselves... A T-SHIRT . HacktoberFEST   is an annual event where the participants contribute code to the open source community. The event is organized in the month of October from the 1st to the 31st . The contributors are encouraged to make 4 pull requests to Github-hosted repositories and get stickers and a T-shirt as a reward. I see this event as an opportunity for me to grow as a developer and a contributor in the open source community and so should you! I specifically set for myself 2 goals that I want to achieve at the end of Hacktoberfest which I have already signed up. Goal #1: To learn something new: Python, perhaps? As a student at Seneca College, I have been...

Welcome back to my Release 0.1! In a previous post , I discussed the first activity of the Release 0.1 which was a bugfix. Today, I am going to continue with the series by talking about a new feature suggestion that I made to another note-taking app of one of my colleagues. Let's get started! Issue #2: New feature proposal for a saved-status indicator for a note-taking app Links: Repository | Issue | Pull Request To begin with, I found this note-taking app of my colleague which was a simple white page with a text box area to type the note and a default initial message. I cloned the repository and ran the app to test it out. However, I found it impossible to save the note since there was no hint anywhere. The initial view of the app I was really curious so I opened the source code to investigate how this app works The app was written in plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a library called Filer.js to support with locally storing and retrieving the content of ...