Tag «development»

So, I’ve been working for K2 for about a year-and-a-half now and am still enjoying being part of an actual software company again. Today I found out they’ve produced a new How To video for the product I’ve been the primary developer on for the last year or so. This component is a broker that …

Weekly roundup – April 14, 2014

Telecommuting tips, update OpenSSL, the end of crapware?, Git tutorials, free education, ideas into products, humanize numbers, better Datetimes, a Git GUI.

Project announcement coming & new donation options

I’ll soon be announcing a project I’m very excited about: a portable library and Android app for the wonderful data provided by the folks at NutritionIX. NutritionIX provides comprehensive nutrition information for individual food items as well as popular restaurants – something that has been extremely useful in managing my diabetes (type 2). Watch this …

Weekly roundup – April 7, 2014

The Weekly roundup is my regular post of interesting and useful things I’ve found or done over the last week. Topics: Diversity in tech, crypto, online verification, Windows pkg management, .NET Foundation, a better RSS reader, tutorials, taking credit cards, debugging mod_rewrite.

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

I resisted saying anything yesterday because I didn’t want people to think it was a prank, but Bellevue College has decided not to renew my annual contract and let me go.

Weekly roundup, March 10, 2014

Incentivizing software issues, free images for your blog, testing Javascript, automating browser tests.

Weekly roundup, March 3rd 2014

Mock EF databases, cure cancer while you sleep, API jobs, nutrition calculators, & a better traceroute.

Video: ReSharper Secrets

Just finished watching the ReSharper Secrets video on the JetBrainsTV channel on YouTube. Several good tips there. Definitely worth watching. The presenter spends the bulk of the time talking about Annotations – which are how ReSharper works a lot of its magic and are now available to us for decorating our own code. He closes …

Weekly roundup, 2-21-2014

My friend Dan recently asked Has anyone already written the code to use the AVR on the Gertboard for the Raspberry Pi as a simple GPIO expansion/demux? I don’t have an answer for him, but maybe you do, or know somebody who does? Seattle to sport one of the first Bitcoin ATMs in the U.S. …