There's some value in testing January 15, 2025
That's kind of tongue in cheek, but I am not really one to write tests for my code. Can be subtitled "Man discovers unit tests after 25 years of coding" :P
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Deeper into the Cloud January 10, 2025
Sometimes I'm dumb. Google Cloud Build works fine and everything is good again :)
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Some Admin Updates January 7, 2025
Google Cloud Build January 7, 2025
I am now fully into Google Cloud, with multiple projects. I wanted to look into easier ways of deploying my code.
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New Side Project: AltarSchedule.com! January 4, 2025
Scripting is the Glue October 10, 2024
Software architecture isn't about writing code, it's about creating solutions, and those can come in many ways.
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Weather API Bonus Content October 7, 2024
Ok, this is the last one. Setting up the programs to run by anyone, not just me.
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The Simple Act of Integrating a Weather API - Part 3 October 1, 2024
I revisited my solution, again. This time I got it. The cities.json file is 71KB instead of 19MB.
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The Simple Act of Integrating a Weather API - Part 2 September 18, 2024
Sometimes I rush a little bit through it, and I definitely didn't look close enough at the actual data from geonames.org
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The Simple Act of Integrating a Weather API September 11, 2024
The new LPGA website has launched. I talk about one of the features that should have been pretty easy, and all of the tools I used to solve it :)
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Caching and Concurrency June 21, 2024
In C#, simply using a concurrent dictionary isn't enough. You still have to protect against long load times!
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trest - Testing dependent JSON REST services June 19, 2024
And on my general overview of test driven development
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I won't be using your new language features January 3, 2024
Aesthetic language features just make code harder to read
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Why I do Advent of Code December 18, 2023
I do advent of code for a number of reasons, while people I know, who could do it, skip it. And I try to quantify why I will sacrifice sleep in order to do it!
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