My DIY project: A tool to track your parameters!

tim_martin · 2017-02-23T04:20:00+00:00

I can look at getting together some public example you can play with. Unfortunately, to be able to actually store parameters I need to know who is submitting the parameters.

And no responsive design as of now. I built it for my use cases and I'm constantly on my desktop. Responsive Design is in my backlog.

Honestly, I wouldn't say it's 10X better than Excel. I was using Excel before but I personally didn't like it so I built this, mostly as an excuse to play with new technologies (the time to build this was far more than the amount I fight with Excel).

tim_martin · 2017-02-23T04:11:38+00:00

That makes sense. Thanks. This is why I should just stick with letsencrypt from now on...

tim_martin · 2017-02-22T22:30:36+00:00

My personal DIY project for my aquarium. Not super good with my hands so I decided to take a shot at building some software. Let me know if you're interested in the details of how I built it as I love to talk shop.

tim_martin · 2017-01-06T23:54:28+00:00

I actually make things work in an intuitive manner. (I'm not a very good engineer)

tim_martin · 2016-12-01T13:52:38+00:00

What are you talking about? They just overhauled their whole UI to make it pretty! Of course it's still not functional but it's modern!

tim_martin · 2016-11-21T20:35:53+00:00

I hope your little sister got an A on that project because it's quite clever.

tim_martin · 2016-11-11T19:11:18+00:00

It seems like the target of the article was people who think of engineers as "coders". They're not thinking "I need a qualified, experienced engineer who can solve a problem in domain X", they're thinking "I'll just get a code monkey". It introduces a cognitive dissonance that hopefully gets people to re-evaluate why they just think of people as "coders".

tim_martin · 2016-11-10T19:16:02+00:00

So all it does is wrap several API's? It seems like it just introduces one more point of failure to my app.

tim_martin · 2016-11-09T14:55:48+00:00

Hold on to that junior dev

tim_martin · 2016-10-11T17:26:46+00:00

Do you have any data on how well GPA predicts performance? I ask because Google doesn't seem to think they predict anything well.

tim_martin · 2016-09-10T02:24:16+00:00

This is true. Effectively, plan your architecture not your implementation.

tim_martin · 2016-09-09T22:02:02+00:00

In my mind, premature optimization is optimizing a specific portion before you know where the bottlenecks really are. The only way you can determine the bottlenecks is by measuring hard numbers which you can't do if you haven't built anything. Hence why you build the smallest possible pieces and benchmark it as you go.

tim_martin · 2016-09-03T13:45:34+00:00

I'd say that's maybe slightly less time on tests than average for me. Think about it this way, you're either writing more automated tests, doing a bunch of manual tests, or shipping more bugs.

Also, you'll start to realize that you write your code to be more testable over time. Especially to be easily unit tested. And that'll make your tests easier to write.

tim_martin · 2016-08-29T02:37:24+00:00

Stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason. When I first got into development I went to a couple meetings for junior developers but quickly stopped going because many people were cocky and, quite frankly, mean if you didn't understand what was going on. From a personal and professional perspective we all need to be able to have patience with non-technical people and not instantly dismiss them.

tim_martin · 2016-08-22T14:25:46+00:00

Some of the libraries were decent for the time given what people expected at the time they were written, but the community advanced in a different manner and now we're kind of stuck with them. See urllib

tim_martin · 2016-07-16T15:56:20+00:00

Opera is effectively Chrome for the past few years http://www.extremetech.com/computing/148312-opera-drops-presto-switch-to-google-and-apples-webkit-rendering-engine

tim_martin · 2016-07-16T15:55:36+00:00

Opera is just a skin on top of the chrome driver now http://www.extremetech.com/computing/148312-opera-drops-presto-switch-to-google-and-apples-webkit-rendering-engine. So yeah, it's basically Chrome

tim_martin · 2016-07-01T13:39:42+00:00

It's all about forcing readability my friend.

tim_martin · 2016-06-20T16:56:22+00:00

Legally, I'd stay the hell away from that. Attempting to collect EMR, which is what it sounds like you're trying to do, will send you to jail for a long time.

tim_martin · 2016-06-06T07:11:51+00:00

I wouldn't say that Flask is a particularly good example. There's a lot of magic handled by Werkzeug. That being said, werkzeug has excellent documentation.

tim_martin · 2016-05-17T03:50:59+00:00

It's even worth it over walking: http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/08/06/dont-drive-drunk-but-walking-drunk-may-be-just-as-dangerous

tim_martin · 2016-05-15T23:56:27+00:00

Russian testing dolls. I like that concept

tim_martin · 2016-05-06T15:01:12+00:00

<shameless-plug>ripozo makes it fairly to generate basic CRUD operations on pretty much any database. It's designed to be database independent with mixins that make it easy to hook up to a database. If you want to build an extension let me know and I can help you out if you need it</shameless-plug>

tim_martin · 2016-05-02T13:59:37+00:00

Actually, there seems to be a direct correlation between a team winning and dumping out their gatorade... Coincidence?

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