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my name is Josue Plaza.^21yo

Hello! The website underwent some minor database adjustments which took the site down for a few days. Fortunately, the adjustments have been completed and everything is back up and running once more.

Also, I have a new website that I am exciting to share and add to my portfolio very soon. It is a composer website that showcases scores for film, video games, and other multimedia projects. It is a professional website for my other hobby: music.

Stay tuned!

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Spring 2015 will be my final semester at Texas State University! I started my undergraduate degree in 2011 and I'm now only a handful of months away from finishing it. It's been an incredible ride. I can't keep track of the amount of people I've met who has impacted my life in such a positive way. Some notable experiences were-

1. My three years at KTSW as a production assistant-to-production director taught me the essentials on communicating and working with a large team, as wel {...}

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Over the past two months, I've been working with Charles Kaufman of Kaufman Communications to help design and development SweetSpotNews.net. The website is a sport memorabilia website that stays up to date on baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and other sports that contain valuable memorabilia. At the moment of this blog post, you may be able to browse different articles and posts on your favorite sport, but this is only for a limited time! After Sw {...}

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I'm currently in for another semester at Texas State University! Life as a senior doesn't seem to be easier, however. I've had more homework per week than I've had ever before. This means I've had also less time to program and work on music. Still, I've been able to produce a new remix today, and finish developing a website for the client. See below:

MyChesmar: I've finished developing a website for Chesmar Homes. It's a website that showcases the division of Riata Hom {...}

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I am massively into electronic music. But not in the way where you will see me at a rave concert with neon glow sticks, but in a way where I just get chills every time I listen to the new Porter Robinson album.

This passion began modestly when I was around 12 years old and started listening to Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory. Before that album, I never knew about all of the magic that existed with digital sound. After that {...}

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I finished the Codeup web development bootcamp last Thursday. To say that I'm I'm extremely excited to continue on personal projects would be a huge understatement. However, I've run into a problem early into the setup stage and I've been stuck here for days.

I can't figure out how to create a new virtual host.

My goal at the moment is to create a site for my father who sells homes for a builder. We talked about getting a site for him for a long time and I'm ready to build one {...}

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Thank you so much for supporting my music over the years. Today I'm officially relaunching my music project under a new moniker for better branding and identification, since I'll be using my real name for my future career as a web developer.

I’ll be producing music under the name Covo from now on.

If you want to follow me in my musical adventures, I would really appreciate it if you liked the page. It truly means a lot to m {...}

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Starting to get back into graphic design. A few reasons for this:

Hiring designers is expensive Graphic design is a valuable skill set I want creative control

My goal is to become proficient enough to where I can design almost as well as I produce and compose music. This can definitely benefit my goal of becoming a frontend developer as well.

Most of this practice is redesigning album artwork for my musical project CoVo. I’ {...}

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