Learn the basics of OOP with Pokemon as a guideline.…
First and foremost this is not a guide but an outline of my experience. I was recently tasked with writing an ETL process at work and it was something that I really enjoyed doing. The goal was to take 20 million or more documents from a Mark Logic database and…
I went into software development thinking that I knew a lot of useful information. Truth be told, that is probably still true... but there were 5 particular problems that I ran into once I landed my first job. This post is a message to aspiring Software Engineers.…
The following instructions are heavily inspired by Bernard 't Hooft over at Udemy. I found instructions from his Windows 7, 8 and 10 course here: https://www.udemy.com/make-gimp-work-as-photoshop. I know that many Linux users love GIMP but may still be missing that 'Photoshop feeling' so I wanted to…
Wow, what a weekend. So as many of you know I have been working on my second web application, Amiibo.Land. Well, on Friday, September 28, 2018 I decided it was finished so I launched the beta to the public. Friday morning I spent a chunk of time setting up…
Today is my last day at The Greenbrier Companies. I've been with the company for nearly 6 years now and it's been a great experience overall. I started my position as a Tier 1 employee in Dayton, Ohio and was transferred and promoted to the Boulder, CO. office 2 years…
I have decided that I am transferring colleges. I am currently enrolled at CSU-Global which is an extension of Colorado State University, but I am in the process of switching to Western Governors University (WGU), a competency based university. So far, I really like CSU. The professors are all pretty…
Okay, well that was interesting. Let's start this post off with I am excited to have been given an opportunity to interview for my first developer position. I'll spare you the company name as it is not a large company such as Google or Apple. I don't feel as if…