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Getting sick is never fun. I suppose that goes without saying, but it’s even less fun when it costs $2,500. As a young man in my mid-20s, God has blessed me with generally good health to this point in...
View ArticleTechnical Debt
If you’ve been a developer for any amount of time, you’ve run into it—technical debt. It’s those bad design decisions that cause you problems on a weekly basis, or that less-than-performant hack that...
View ArticleDon’t Stop Your Education at Graduation
If there is one constant in the tech industry, it’s that everything will change. My bachelor’s degree in computer science has been a great foundation, but once I entered the work force, it was often...
View ArticlePC Appreciates Mac
Let’s get one thing out of the way: I’m not usually a big Apple fan. Despite the glory of playing Oregon Trail on an Apple II-e in elementary school, I had generally gone the PC route for my life,...
View Article3 Ways to Eliminate Bad Data
I’m privileged to work for a business unit that was one of the first in our company to have a web presence. The upside is that we have lots of history to build upon and learn from. That also happens to...
View ArticleHeadless Automation with PhantomJS
Most web developers are well-versed in the uses of headless browsers for testing purposes, but are they good for anything else? As with any job, using the right tool can make all the difference. I’ve...
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