Today I ran into an interesting problem. I have an endpoint that looked something like this http://mydomain.com/my/api/interesting-dynamic-token/widgets The interesting dynamic token gets replaced with an actual identifier value from the system. The token is an identifier in regular text that helps find the item on the back end. Everything worked smoothly until with every item, […]
Recently I tutored someone that needed help with “HTML”. I put the quotes around HTML because once I learned more about what they were trying to accomplish, I learned that it involved more than HTML. They required PHP. It’s been a few years since I touched anything PHP. So I had to get set up. […]
Sometimes we learn something later in life only to realize that it was put in our ears a long time ago. Take the story of the Tortoise and the Hare for example. The moral of the story is that consistent work pays off over pure talent. Consistency is key to anything. Ask any business owner […]
There is an old saying in Spanish “Bueno Bonito y Barato” it translates to English as “Good Appealing and Cheap”. We live in a day and age where our attention spans have decreased. We are bombarded with stories of overnight success. It is also well known that the 3 B’s are rarely attainable. It reminds […]
If you asked my high school English teacher what I would be doing in 20 or 30 years, it is unlikely that she would mention anything remotely related to writing. But today, here I am, by definition, a writer. After all, a writer writes. I hated writing throughout all of my pre-college years. What made […]
We all hate it or at least dread the idea of going to tech interview to be grilled about what we know. Who wants to show up for an interview and be grilled on programming questions or even worse, be asked to solve tough problems on a whiteboard. As much as we hate the process, […]
For some time now I’ve heard that we no longer need nor should be using jQuery. Yes Yes, I know, I’m late to the party. The frustrating part of this was exactly how do I stop using JQuery and using pure HTML and JavaScript instead. The information regarding what to use instead is quite […]
I caught one of the latest episodes of Eli the Computer Guy last week and it really caught my attention. Eli pointed out that one of the biggest coding schools, The Iron Yard, was shutting its doors completely, soon. It made me really think about the idea of coding schools altogether. The idea that anyone can […]
Sometimes I feel like I’m not moving forward in the direction that I want. I have personal and professional goals like everyone else. I have been blogging off and on for about 10 years and in those 10 years, my audience hasn’t grown much. My career has been somewhat stagnant. My technical knowledge has increased […]
I’m of the mentality that you get out of something the amount of what you put into it. I’ve seen many a student graduate with a degree in computer science or information systems and be ill-prepared for the job market. Heck, I’ve seen individuals with a master’s degree and be ill prepared for an entry […]
