Feb 12, 2019

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by: james

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Tags: Coding Questions, Interviewing, Tech Tips

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Categories: Hiring, Tech Tips

Why Do You Fizz Buzz? Almost every developer has heard of or been asked to implement Fizz Buzz – either in an introductory computer science class or perhaps part of an interview.  It’s very basic: you take an integer input, and if that number is evenly divisible by 3, you output “Fizz”, if it is [...]

Feb 05, 2019

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by: james

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Tags: Coding Questions, Interviewing

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Categories: Hiring, Tech Tips

Understanding Recursion by Understanding Recursion As I was coming up as a developer, I liked to try my hand at short technical challenges to develop my technical and problem-solving skill.  These may have been implementations of classic computer science problems like Knight’s Tour or Towers of Hanoi or challenges that I had come across during [...]

Jan 28, 2019

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by: james

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Tags: API, RESTful API, Unit Testing

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Categories: Tech Tips

A Generic Client for RESTful APIs This morning, our accounting team was doing some regular weekly work bringing in time tracking data from our time tracking tool (we use Toggl) into our back office and invoice systems.  As I was passing by, I thought, “This sure would be easy to do if Toggl has an [...]

Aug 17, 2018

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by: james

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Tags: Best Practices, Developers, Tips

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Categories: Tech Tips

A problem that I’ve noticed with us developers is that sometimes we hear some techie and cool sounding trivia – you know, like “the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain,” take it as fact, and integrate that fact into our daily dev lives. 

Jun 13, 2017

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by: james

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Categories: Tech Tips

I was onsite at a client site today when they experienced an issue with one of their systems.  No problem,  check the logs, and get them back online. Turns out that there wasn’t much helpful information in the logs as they decided to implement a terrible exception handling “standard.”

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