Are you heading to Tampa Code Camp this year? I’m doing talks at 10am and 2pm, so stop in and say hello!
I’ve got some new cool open-source stuff to show, with QIT and Azure Search Admin
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Interested in building search driven apps?
I’ll be giving a talk at Orlando Backend Devs where I demonstrate three different apps that take advantage of highly scalable search engines like Elasticsearch. It is all about using the right tool for the job!
Find more info here:
https://www.meetup.com/Orlando-Backend-Developers-Meetup/events/250044672/
Getting Started as a Developer Round Table
I had the pleasure of sitting in on the first public Productivity in Tech round table discussion. It was a fantastic experience, huge thanks to host Jay and to the rest of the crew!
Space Junk
Oh hey, I made a little game with Unity 2017. Check it out!
I’d make it open source, but I used some paid assets.
LINQ LINQ LINQ
I’ve been doing a lot of research on LINQ for episode 6 of the Coding Blocks podcast and I was a bit surprised by what I came up with.
I had originally thought of LINQ as a feature. I had heard the parable of the guy at the white board, writing what they thought code should look like and then worked backwards on how to get there. This makes sense, but what surprised me was just how much of the building blocks were already there.
I wrote a blog post about it over at codingblocks.net, so go check it out: What’s So Special About LINQ?.
New (to me) Podcasts
I’ve been not-so-secretly working on a podcast over at CodingBlocks.net. I’ve been doing a lot of research to try and nail down exactly what I want in a podcast.
As part of that research I’ve been exposed to a lot of new listening.
Here are a few of my favorites:
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Audiobooks for Programmers and Entrepreneurs
I put together a collection of audiobooks that get mentioned whenever the discussion turns to “reading”.
Unfortunately there aren’t many books about code, but there are some for the infosec crowd and even more for those with an entrepreneurial bent.
Username Verification Without Information Disclosure
Many applications require customers (don’t call them users!) to sign up with a username or email address to use the service.
If a user mistypes their credentials, security best practices dictate that an error message be displayed which informs the customer that there was a problem WITHOUT revealing whether or not the username was found.
No problem.
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Code Coverage – Hurts So Good
The Dark Side of Unit Testing
There are a lot of opinions around unit testing coverage tools, and I get the debate. However, if I’m working on a fun, no-deadline, side project then I don’t have a lot of excuses for ignoring it. Especially when dependencies are basically null, like ColorMine.
That said…
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ColorMine.org
I’m still putting together my 2013 goals, but I do know that one of them is to launch more sites.
I’ve been doing this whole internet thing for a long time now, I really aught to have more to show for it.
Knowing that perfect is the enemy of good enough I’ve opted to take a release early and release often approach to launching sites.
First up is colormine.org. It’s a simple site that wraps a small color library I wrote.
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