Python: Beginner to Expert
John Lockwood I am at the beginning stages of trying to focus my work better than I have been able to do while working on my one-month goal of posting consistently on LinkedIn. This posting goal exacerbated some pre-existing issues around the organization of my work. Those of you who ever read David Allen’s popular productivity guide, … Read more
I’m not sure if FreeCodeCamp was the first outfit to get folks beavering away on Twitter under the hashtag #100DaysOfCode, but it seems to be associated with them now. This hashtag was a stroke of marketing genius. Since consistent daily coding is a fun hobby that often pays off in a solid career over time, … Read more
Like it or not, many companies have now started giving their software development job candidates take-home coding problems. Many of these are fairly non-trivial, meaning you’ll spend a weekend or more on them before you even get a serious interview at the company you’re applying for. However, as with so much in life, a Tina … Read more
Recently, I have been doing a lot of work trying to understand what tools I want to use in the software development course / boot camp I’ll be teaching. I’ve had a good idea of course topics I want to deliver for some time now: Honestly, the outline fell into place fairly easily, but it … Read more
One of the finest “buzzwords” I learned about in my career was the concept of code pride. Many people have their own definition of this, and it goes under other names as well: Clean Code, Solid Code, and Software Craftsmanship. Of course, whatever you call it, virtues like this are hard to pin down. Beauty, … Read more
My wife attended a Data Science Boot Camp in 2019-2020 and loved it, and did well. This was associated with a University of North Carolina, our state university system. The interesting result of the boot camp for her was that she was able to secure a very substantial raise from the employer she left to … Read more
One of the main benefits of blogging about software is that it allows me to dust off and improve skills that I otherwise might not get too much opportunity to practice during my day job as a Java peasant. (If you don’t know, Java Peasants work in object factories). Along these lines, I’ve set myself … Read more
Over the last few days, I’ve decided to brush up my node a bit. To begin that effort, I’ve started to create some Node starter projects. I’ve called the repository Node Tutorials in honor of the Java Tutorials that I had put together a few years ago. There really isn’t an accompanying Node Tutorials series as there was for … Read more
I recently wrote a go program to optimize my S3 uploads for this blog. The idea was to write a program that would only upload the files that have changed (rather like RSync) rather than bulk uploading the whole site each time. Although there are third-party tools to do this, I wanted to learn more … Read more
I recently worked on a project showing how to install and configure a complete Pentaho Server instance with a back-end data repository housed in Postgresql. I wanted to select a provisioner for this work that would be easy to use to deploy the server either as a single instance VM, as an Amazon AMI, or … Read more
