aaronwdejong.net: A blog about life in IT with mental health.
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Redesign for the about page
I am wanting to redesign the about page and am looking for some ideas. I’m thinking that I should include my skills and more about me. I am also wanting to add some context. The redesign would let you guys know about my story and what I am doing as far as studying. Including my…
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Musings about studying and what comes next
I am wanting to do more while still studying for the CCNA. This is to where I am looking around at the accomplishments that I have had this year while still working on the two Udemy courses. These are the Complete Networking Fundamentals with 555/688 items completed and Learn to Code with Ruby where I…
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Certification Exams for 2024
I have been thinking about which certification paths that I am wanting to go down to reach my ultimate goal of being a CTO. I’ve been doing certifications since last year and have passed the last four certification exams that I have taken. I have the CompTIA ITF+ and A+ certifications as well as the…
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Certification Plans
I’ve decided on splitting up my CCNA re-certification into the Network+ and the CCNA certification by creating a plan that would work to get through all of the data. For my certification plans I am doing the CompTIA Network+ as the first phase with CCNA as the second, and want to get through training on…
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Additions to my Skill Set
I have been studying a little bit of front-end web development and have some skills in HTML5 and CSS3. I am not as good at JavaScript and want to work on this with skillsforall.com which is a Cisco Learning site in addition to watching JavaScript YouTube videos. Other programming languages that I think that I…
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Networking Certification
There is quite a lot of training for the AZ-900 and I would like to do this after re-certifying for my CCNA. I have been studying some on the AZ-900 and have a lengthy study plan. The CCNA is more like my bread and butter, where I have focused more throughout my degrees and the…
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Thoughts on the future
I have been thinking about what I want to do in the future and would like to work up to a Chief Technology Officer role where the average age is around 51 for people that work as a CTO. I have been studying for some of the skills and would need to work on some…
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CompTIA A+ Core 2 220-1102 Exam
I recently passed the CompTIA A+ Core 2 220-1102 Exam and ended up having a little bit of anxiety near the end of the exam. With my CCNA on the back-burner now, I am looking forward to taking the AZ-900 sometime in October or November 2023. I am trying to get to the point that…
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Adding Study Plans
I am a firm believer in making study plans and sticking to your goals as far as IT Certifications go. I have taken on the newer way of doing practice tests, I was not a believer in them until I passed my ITF+ certification and I preferred doing it the old way which was learning…
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Thoughts on DeveloperWeek CloudX Conference
I thought that the DeveloperWeek CloudX 2023 conference was a good experience overall and will be back next year to do the 2024 conference. I did get to watch five speakers at the event and learned more about Cloud Computing, DevOps and also about the future of work. I did have some social anxiety and…
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