I know I've not posted anything in a while. I work for a small "start up" type company and it's taken a lot of my 'programming' time. (*not to mention programming soul...*) But, I was thinking that I need and want to get going again. I really do enjoy open
quick-tip
I often need to add where clauses to SQL statements. Most folks probably do. It allows me to view recent log entries or recently created records. Rather than hard coding dates, I've been using "Date Math" to make these queries usable over a period of time. It also is faster
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Happy new year!
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Happy Pride Month! Although I aim to keep politics and such out of this site I can't ignore pride month. It'd feel wrong. I've been a long time supporter of LGTBQ pride and human rights in general. Be safe while celerbrating!
quick-tip
These are the questions that you must answer during a daily scrum stand-up: 1. What did you do yesterday? 2. What will you do today? 3. Are there any impediments in your way? Just posting this as a quick reference for myself and others.
quick-tip
In JavaScript, what's the difference between var, const and let? In previous generations of JavaScript, only var was available. The latter two were added as part of ES2015. Scope Both let and const are blocked scoped variables whereas var was not blocked scoped. All var declared variables are "hoisted" effectively
Linkbook - Interesting Technical Links
* Encapsulation in Redux: the Right Way to Write Reusable Components * Clockify - 100% Free Time Tracking Software * MonoGame - Web Demo * 10 React mini-patterns - Hacker Noon * React Redux Connect Tutorial — When and How to Use It So, I've been using react quite a bit lately.... 😂
News
We're in the process of moving cloud providers. The reasons are not important at this time but you may have some trouble accessing the site in the near future. If this is the case, clear your cache or try a different browser. Things should stabilize over time from there. Update:
NuGet
Clear the NuGet cache with the following command. Note: You'll need the NuGet.exe. Command: nuget locals all -clear
Open Source Software
TestCafe is a web application (or website) testing tool. It's designed to automatically test websites from a user's perspective. This paradigm is key to the effective use of TestCafe; a common objective for TestCafe is to test website features through the lens of the user while also ensuring that the
Linkbook - Interesting Technical Links
* Elon Musk's 6 productivity rules, including walk out of meetings that waste your time * Visual Studio's UserVoice if you use Visual Studio, you should participate... * Creating your own NuGet Server * 'Doom' Rendered Entirely in ASCII Is the Most 1337 Way to Play
software engineering
I wanted to share an old graduate school project I have in my GitHub account. I return to this project as a reference. Not to remind myself of the core pattern but to remind me to consider the architecture of a given project. It's a basic pipe and filter architecture
News
I've been using JetBrain's Rider a lot but I still use VS 2017 and wanted to share that update 15.7.1 has been released. The release notes are here. According to the release notes, it's to cover a security advsory and thus I recommend that you update ASAP (before
Reference
I think this illustrates the concept of Big-O complexity pretty good. O(1): random access to an element in a collection, dependent on indexing O(n): list iterations O(n^2): nested loops on the same collection O(log n): divide and conquer O(n log n): iterations that use
Infrastructure
This site runs, in part, on a reverse proxy (along with the Ghost publishing platform). What is that? Why is it used? I don't know when it came about but this concept has kept coming into my purview and I imagine it's coming into yours as well. In this article,
Linkbook - Interesting Technical Links
* Generating Combinations TopCoder * How Ghost Migrated From Dedicated Servers to DigitalOcean: Ghost runs this site and I found this interesting reading. * Remote Desktop Roundup: TeamViewer vs. Splashtop vs. Windows RDP * College student reflects on getting started in open source * 13 Noteworthy Points from Google’s JavaScript Style Guide