Week in review – 04/22/13 – 04/28/13
I am planning on doing something new, here. I am going to start writing a “week in review” post where I talk about something that I worked on over the past week and maybe provide some links and/or...
View ArticleWeek in review – 04/29/13 – 05/05/13
So, this past week, I spent a lot of time working on basic clean-up and security tightening. I was thinking, though about how to improve development of CRUD code. I read a reddit post a few months...
View ArticleWeek in review – 05/06/13 – 05/12/13
So, this week, I was asked to write a chunk of PHP code to interact with the PayFlow Pro APIs. It was my first ever chunk of production PHP code. I have to admit, I was not necessarily impressed with...
View ArticleWeek in review – 05/13/13 – 05/19/13
So, this week, I was approached about doing a project in a language that I have never written in before. I do not have the project yet but I was left wondering how much time to budget to learn the...
View ArticleWeek in review – 05/20/13 – 05/26/13
This past week, I was reminded of the reason why it is important to do proper analysis of a project. I was handed two project. One was hot and the other wasn’t. I was asked to do the not-hot one...
View ArticleWeek in review – 05/27/13 – 06/02/13
This past week, I started to about “better” ways of handling crud operations. A lot of what I do as a developer is to allow the user to input a collection of things and then output that list of things...
View ArticleWeek in review – 06/03/13 – 06/09/13
This past week, I saw Marcos Placona‘s post about running Railo in AppFog for free. He does it by installing the Railo WAR file into a java instance. I was able to get a Railo 4 instance running...
View ArticleWeek in review – 06/10/13 – 06/16/13
This past week, I was asked to work (together with the other developers) on a standards document for application development. This is the second time, in three organizations, where I was asked to work...
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Week in review – 06/17/13 – 06/23/13
This past week, I started looking at how to figure out the sales tax rate for a particular location. If the Marketplace Fairness Act would have passed, it would have required every online store to...
View ArticleWeek in review – 06/24/13 – 06/30/13
This past week, I replaced my trusty chromebook with new Macbook Air. I got the 11.6″ one with a haswell i5 CPU, 8gb of RAM, and a 256gb SSD. It should be significantly more powerful than the...
View ArticleWeek in review – 07/01/13 – 06/07/13
This past week, I signed up for MoviePass. I first heard about it, a few months ago when one of my coworkers signed up for it. The way it works is that you pay a monthly fee for “unlimited” visits to...
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