Blog
2021-03-22
Statements of affirmations and vision boards are popular tools to keep your goals ever-present in your mind. Here is a quick guide on how you can use your life lists to direct the creation of these tools. Read More...
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Software Developer Career Tips
2020-02-12
Cash Flow is King
2019-09-03
Fitness Series
2020-02-03
DREAM Series
2019-01-01
Goal Directed Living
2021-01-21
A 2020 Update
03 September, 2020
After several months of absence, I share a not-so-short update on my life.
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Software Developer Career Tips: Closing Thoughts
12 February, 2020
My closing thoughts on the previous series with advice on what to consider when leaving your job.
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Fitness Series: Illnesses and Injuries, Make a Contingency Plan
03 February, 2020
Revisiting the Fitness series to explore the idea of having a contingency plan to remove your emotions when recovering from a prolonged bout of sickness or an injury that requires time away from working out.
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Software Developer Career Tips: The System Design Phase
27 January, 2020
A common category of interview questions that are being asked of both experienced and novice software developers alike are the 'System Design' questions. I cover a couple of resources to help you prepare for these questions.
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Software Developer Career Tips: The Technical Phase
21 January, 2020
The most notorious phase encountered in the interview process for a technology worker is the daunting technical phase which can come in a multitude of varieties which I'll briefly describe in this post (and also how to prepare).
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Software Developer Career Tips: Do Your Preliminary Research
13 January, 2020
When preparing for the in-person interview, you should do your research beforehand to anticipate what it may happen and how to evaluate and handle the possible offer.
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Projects
DREAM
An online electronic assessment system for the purpose of collecting assessment data regarding student teachers and counselors throughout their collegiate career. The system also electronically facilitates a large number of other institutional processes in an effective manner.
Personal Website
I wanted to update my older website that I had created in Spring of 2017. The older website was simply built from scratch using only PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL. I decided to use the opportunity to learn the very popular ReactJS library. After exploring many different framework options, I settled on the popular static site generator framework built upon ReactJS and ES6, Gatsby. This website is my first introduction and experience working with React components and ES6 syntax, primarily arrow functions.
Oasis
This was a litle pet personal project that I had spinning in my head, born out of my own personal interest in Personal Finance. I wanted to toy with the idea of a calculator of sorts that would allow you to define income streams, buckets, and other financial entities and you could simulate the timeline of changes and accummulation and make adjustments along the way. Since I hadn't worked with Angular since AngularJS, I used it as an opportunity to learn the new Typescript-based Angular framework.
Mars
Allow users to add restaurants, meals and also place recommendations for restaurants and meals. Also allow users to search for potential highly recommended restaurants and meals based on provided or current location information. Allow users to share their recommendations on social media platforms.
What I've been reading.
The Power of Habit
19 December, 2019
A popular book of interesting anecdotes detailing how habits are formed and how they impact our lives and businesses.
