Hello World!
My name is Mike and welcome to my website. I am an inspiring developer that has learned programming mostly through self teaching.
From Scratch
Everything you see on this website was built from scratch by me. This website is serving as a teaching tool for me as I learn more about web development.
Having fun with JavaScript
My main goal with this website was to get a better understanding of JavaScript. In the past I learned the bare minimum to get by but now I want to master it!
Explore!
Please explore my website. Enjoy the silly animations. And by all means if something doesn't look right or isn't working feel free to contact me!
Things I have made
Matter Wedding
This is the website I built for my wife and I's wedding. This was my first serious website project. This is where I frist really learned the basics of HMTL and CSS with some light JavaScript as well. The site is also fully responsive. Try it out!
Tech Medley
I made a blog! I don't use it at all but I wanted to learn more about server side programming. So I learned some Ruby on Rails and made my self a pretty simple blog. Ruby on Rails makes interacting with a database super easy. I highly recommend Ruby on Rails as a good starting place for anyone looking to learn development.
Fun stuff about me
When I am not coding I love to travel. For my wife and I's honeymoon we went to Europe. Our favorite place to visit by far was Cinque Terre. On the West Coast of Italy this chain of small towns was absolutely gorgeous. We spent the days seeing the town, eating, and drinking wine.
We also love to travel in the US. We are fortunate enough to have some friends out in Seattle who let us come visit and crash at their place. The Pacific Northwest is gorgeous and I found my self wondering why we don't live out there too.
I am also very lucky to be the proud animal parent! We have two cats, Link and Dexter, and one puppy dog, Dani. Yes Dexter is named after the serial killer. Link is the hero of time. Dani is the mother of dragons.