BackstoryAt the start of 2019 I was working in my first full time engineering position as an Associate Software Engineer at a large worldwide company called IHS Markit. The team there was great, I was learning a lot and everyone that I interacted with on a day to day basis…
"Hey Google, Talk to Poké Partner"It goes without saying that I'm a huge Pokémon fan. Ever since the original series came to the US and I watched Ash and Pikachu try to conquer Kanto, or when I put countless hours into Pokémon Blue and every Pokemon game since then.…
History Lesson Before we talk about what REST is, first let's look at why was REST created. Back in the 1990s the internet was a lot more chaotic and standardization was not a primary concern. As you can imagine there was no standard on how APIs should be designed, maintained…
Why Pokémon? Why not? Many of my peers grew up with Pokémon or now have kids that are watching Pokémon. Also, many beginners struggle to grasp the basics of Object Orientated Programming. My hope is that mixing the four core principles with something so many people have seen will help…
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…