Engage with Instagram Posts using Selenium
Social media engagement matters, like it or not. Lately I find myself more engaged with creator content on YouTube and TikTok than the posts from my connecti...
Welcome to my blog!
Here, you'll discover articles on software engineering, technology, and leadership. I post both to share my insights and to enhance my own understanding.Recent Posts
ChatGPT as a Language Tutor
Language learning is set to become both more accessible and affordable thanks to the integration of AI technologies in educational tools. Conversational prac...
Next Projects
Large Language Models (LLMs) are exciting to any developer. It was a year ago that OpenAI changed the game with GPT-3. The hype has subsided and that just re...
Twitter analysis
Statistical methods for modeling and analyzing data are all the buzz, and have been for a while now. Tooling has come a long way, as have educational resourc...
Garbage Characters in XML
Polar’s GPS often takes time to establish a satellite connection and retrieve a position. After export a “strange character” sits in the time node, causing j...
Exploring the Search Space
I moved on from sort to search and implemented a few search algorithms in python from pseudocode on wikipedia. I coded a simple backtracking algorithm as wel...
Upsifting in a Heapsort
While trying to implement a heapsort in python I came across pseudocode that communicated that sifting up and sifting down to build the heap are different ap...
Book Review Team Geek
Team Geek is billed as a “Software Developer’s Guide to working well with others.” Its written by two googlers with solid tips for how to survive organizatio...
A look at Grunt.js
Grunt is a task runner that allows you to automate repetitive tasks like compiling CoffeeScript and SASS, minifying sources, testing. It is a tool to support...
Open Source Web Development Tools
I have been playing catchup lately trying to wrap my head around web developmentwith Node.js, and the npm ecosystem. There are so many tools available and pa...
Phone Backup
I’ve played with a lot of windows phones over the last few years. I started writing apps on Windows Phone 7 and the platform has matured nicely.
Apigee on PhoneGap
I like Orlando–most of all because its residents enjoy summertime temperatures while the rest of the country is in a deep freeze.
Here Are Some Apps
I have a good amount of WinRT experience. So, I decided to make some Windows 8 & Windows Phone applications to have a presence in the app store.
Developing in the Cloud
I want to move my development environment to the cloud. My current setup is poor for a lot of reasons. I have a 120 SSD with half the space dedicated to a W...
Speaking Scripts With NirCmd
Nir Sofer has written a fun utility that I have been using to make my scripts talk. Its called nircmd.exe
Memory Challenges and Recollection
I’ve been working on a memory hack that will serve as a reliable memory aid. There is a short list of memory training systems out there used successfully, t...
Deactivating Windows Phone Live Tiles
When alive with activity, the Windows Phone 8 Live Tiles look great. I like the Flip Tile Template, in particular. It’s useful to be able to return them to a...
Loading Styles Dynamically on Windows 8
Windows 8 is very ambitious in its breadth of supported form factors. Huge screens down through small tablets, it is quite variety of display surfaces suppo...
Exiting a Windows Phone Application
On a Windows Phone it’s bad form to quit an application to close itself. Apps are supposed to be left running, since the application lifecycle suspends apps ...