Living in the United States, Thanksgiving takes up an interesting position in the holiday season. Wedged in-between the more commercialized holidays of Halloween and Christmas, as casual outsider might completely miss Thanksgiving if it hadn’t been sanctified as the entrance gate to Christmas shopping. It’s probably best when talking about the holidays to gloss over … [Read more…]
Phase 1: The Search I wanted the same feeling of community I experienced online only locally. I work in a relatively small city but for its size we have a quite a bit of software being developed here, we even have early claims to the title Silicon Beach. Although that title has stuck more to … [Read more…]
If you have been testing API endpoints, you may have used tools like cURL, Postman, or DHC as a client for testing them. Those tools definitely have their place, but ever since I started automating tests it generally feels faster to just script them up. Even if I’m not going to be checking these tests … [Read more…]
Mind Maps are diagrams used to visually organize information. You may recognize them from brainstorming activities you have done in school, that was my first exposure. As part of learning to write essays we started out by brainstorming ideas. We’d put a cloud in the center of our page and in it place the topic … [Read more…]