Advent of Code 2017 - Day 13

Advent of Code is one of my favorite times of year. Here is my thought process on 2017 Day 13.

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Some Plays on Words and Phrases

Sometimes hilarious things pop in my head. Actually, I'd wager that sometimes that doesn't happen. Implying it happens most of the time. Here are some new ones (for me) for you potential comedy writers out there. I don't need any public credit :P  Maybe just a comment or email.

"Do I look like somebody who " ... You know this. "Do I look like someone who checks the toilet seat before they sit down?"  Or "Who cares what color their shirt is?"  etc. Here are a few fun ones I came up with.

"Do I look like somebody who looks like somebody?"   Yeah, pretty bad.

"Do I look like somebody who asks to be compared to anybody by their looks?"  A little better.

"Do I look like somebody who looks at things?"  Might be said by a blind person, so after my original inspiration for this, the ingenuity has been lost and it has been discounted back to lacklustre.

That's all I got though. Any more would be forcing it. You might argue the first 3 are as well ;)

Go Dep

As I'm going through and editing all of these blurbs now, I'm reminded of some things that I thought were good at the time, and have now been replaced by things that are a million times better. Go Dep is one of those! Go modules are a thing of pure genius.

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Go and Sitecore Interlude

I've integrated Go heavily into tools to make development of Sitecore much more easier. Replacing Team Development for Sitecore has been hugely beneficial. Part of making it easier to use involved writing a method using Go's reflection to join multiple JSON configurations together to get the final configuration.

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Go and Sitecore, Part 3

I've integrated Go heavily into tools to make development of Sitecore much more easier. Replacing Team Development for Sitecore has been hugely beneficial. This is part 3, which involves deserializing the serialized Sitecore data back into the database.

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Go and Sitecore, Part 2

I've integrated Go heavily into tools to make development of Sitecore much more easier. Replacing Team Development for Sitecore has been hugely beneficial. This is part 2, which covers serialization of Sitecore data.

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Go and Sitecore, Part 1

I've integrated Go heavily into tools to make development of Sitecore much more easier. Replacing Team Development for Sitecore has been hugely beneficial. This is part 1 of that thought process.

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Advent of Code 2016

Advent of Code 2016 involves a white elephant gift exchange with 3 million elves :P

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Go CrawlFarm Code

I like to make an inventory of big software packages that I create, here it is for my crawlfarm.

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New Go Project: Distributed Crawler

My distributed crawler covers a lot of what Go offers. Network communication using Gob and channels, concurrent programming, goroutines. Crawl farm was fun to write, and I still break it out on occasion.

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Transactional Data from Investment Account

I had to go through all of my historical data from ShareBuilder (later CapitalOne Investing) to figure out how many shares I had in my investment account at a certain date. They provide all of the historical data that I needed, I just need to parse it, then figure out what the securities were worth at that date.

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Mortgage Account Finances

Budgeting has always been an interest of mine, here I figure out a way to get two "free" mortgage payments a year!

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#supertacotuesday

I'm definitely tweeting these too. It felt like the perfect combination.

The Unmatched Welding of Politics and Flavor - #supertacotuesday

Townhalls and Tortillas - #supertacotuesday

Voters, Villains, Saviors, and V-Shaped Savories - #supertacotuesday

Those are fun :)  #supertacotuesday

Note To Self

nginx is super useful and easy to set up, but I forget how to set up a proxy to pass to a an internal service. This helps a lot.

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Advent Of Code - Day 22

Advent of Code has pretty much not topped 2015 Day 22. I had a ton of fun writing the solution.

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