I'm the Solution Architect at a top ed tech company.
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Most data can be separated into two categories: that which has a relationship to other data in the dataset and that which does not. For years, we've spent time organizing data into hierarchical, relational databases. While this is generally fine, being able to put that data into a
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A while back, I used to play a game called Eve Online. It's an interesting game, and I played it a lot. During my time playing Eve, I used to do quite a bit of market trading. In order to really take advantage of the ability to pull
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I needed to build a simple statistics tool for analyzing some timing information across a small section of our application. I only needed this during debugging (as it won't be in production), and I did not really want to include a huge library just for a few small
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This week, I plan on continuing my educational list of links. There is a push towards graph theory in this list, as I really do love it. Graph Theory and Recommendation Engines Why do I like this? I'm a huge fan of graph theory, and when I have
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This week, I want everyone to learn a little bit. Actually, I want everyone to learn a lot. This week's links are geared mostly towards learning things. Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide Why do I like this? Don't let the title of this e-book
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I had so many articles to choose from this week, that paring it down to even these eight links was nigh impossible. I started with 43 different links that all caught my fancy. These are the best of the best. I am even including an old article, because it'
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Welcome to July! This week we are going to link a number of interesting things, from AngularJS directives to machine learning to accessbility and a ton in between. Let's start the second half of the year getting to know ES6 better, learning new algorithms to make our lives
The final week of June is a short work week for me. You are still going to get your five links, however, I couldn't find anything funny that I really liked, so no humour this week. I did write something humorous that you can check out, however. More
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In our office yesterday, we were discussing our current epic. One of the engineers asked "Why is no one panicking?" One of our other engineers replied that "We've moved beyond panic to acceptance." At this point, we had a good laugh about the Five
In the previous article, we built a controller, a service, and a directive in AngularJS. While that will get you started in developing a robust application, you cannot really build large-scale applications without testing. This article is going to go over unit testing using Karma and Jasmine. This article will
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This week, I've got a bonus link for you that I thought was just fun to have around Destructuring in ES6 Why do I like this? Destructuring in ES6 makes life in general better. It allows us to quickly map between variables and objects with little overhead. I
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This week's links have a bunch of interesting content that I wanted to share. Design Patterns Simplified Why do I like this? Design patterns are hugely important in software development. Being able to understand the more complicated patterns allows you to write better, more maintainable code. It leads