John Burkhard

John Burkhard

Pittsburgh
Open to Work

As a software developer, I help people build their digital business by focusing on their relationship with technology through needs assessment, software selection, strategy, and web development.

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Skills & Experience

  • Job Title

    Software Developer

  • Spoken Languages

    • English
    • Sign Language

229 Achievements

  • Next Steps
  • Improving Our Tests
  • Perform
  • Console I/O
  • Prepare and Plan
  • Behavior Driven Development with Mocha & Chai
  • Introducing Unit Testing
  • More TODO with the MEAN Stack
  • Creating and Editing Data in a MEAN App
  • Setting Up MongoDB
  • Going MEAN with Angular
  • Going MEAN with Express
  • Introduction to MEAN
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Improving Our Todo App
  • Services in Angular
  • Using Angular's Built-in Directives
  • Controllers and Scope
  • Getting Started with Angular
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Doing More with Express
  • PHP Includes
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • The Request and Response Objects in Express
  • Python For Beginners
  • Developing Express Apps Like a Boss
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  •  Child Themes
  • The Local Development Environment
  • Configuring a Genesis Child Theme
  • An Overview of the Genesis Framework
  • An Overview of WordPress Frameworks
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Local WordPress Development
  • The WordPress Codex
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • AngularJS MVC Frameworks
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Pick a Number! Any Number!
  • Putting the "Fun" Back in "Functions"
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Building Out WordPress Navigation
  • Building Page Templates in WordPress
  • The WordPress Loop
  • WordPress Header and Footer Templates
  • Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • Shopping List
  • Things That Count
  • Ins & Outs
  • Say Hello to Python
  • PHP Getting Started
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • Variables and Constants
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Workflow Basics
  • Ruby on Rails Authentication
  • Rails Frontend Development
  • Share Your Creation
  • Animate This
  • Shaking Things Up
  • Making It Pretty
  • Learning the Language
  • Getting Started with iPhone
  • Getting Started with Android
  • Getting Started With Rails
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Website Basics
  • Web Fonts
  • Borders
  • Gradients
  • Backgrounds
  • Transitions
  • Transforms
  • Animation
  • Multi-Column Layouts
  • Layer Basics
  • Masks Basics
  • Type Tools
  • HTML
  • Introduction
  • Selectors
  • Selector Code Challenge
  • Data Types
  • Text
  • Text Code Challenge
  • Box Model
  • CSS
  • Page Layout
  • Printing
  • Framework Foundations
  • Mastery Challenge
  • Website Basics
  • Elements
  • Workspace Basics
  • Code Racer
  • Principles
  • Color Theory
  • Aesthetic Foundations
  • Basics
  • Video
  • HTML5
  • Selectors
  • Typography
  • Newbie
  • Old School
  • Introduction
  • Text
  • Lists
  • List Challenge
  • Links
  • Objects
  • Tables
  • Tables Challenge
  • Forms
  • HTML Master