Code Katas are a professional training practice developers use to stay in shape when it comes to programming, problem solving, tool utilization and much much more. A great definition and background can be found at codekata.pragprog.com. That link has a good list of Code Katas but has not been updated in a long time. It […]
Old Portfolio Links
This is an outdated page that simply holds links to some old projects I worked on waaayy back when. This is the last straw that will allow me to shut down my nicholastuck.com blog and redirect traffic here. (old link) Blind Supervision | link Learning | Angular | Backbone | Dart/Angular Sandbox Axis Map Camid […]
Omaha Java Users Group – Introduction to Restlet – 02/21/12 – Success
This was my first visit to the OJUG and it was a great experience. Lots of pizza and drinks. A handful of recruiters, who if you want, you can turn the conversation about their jobs VS them trying to hire you. In fact met up with my recruiter from TekSystems while I was there, always […]
Clean Coder – Book Notes and Thoughts
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers is a new book on developer professionalism from the legend Bob Martin and it doesn’t disappoint. I have read many books written by Robert (Bob) Martin or from his series. I have been very impressed with the classics and was more than ecstatic when I […]
Succeeding With Agile: Software Development Using Scrum – Book Notes
In an effort to understand how to apply scrum after fully grasping the core concepts and ideas, I read Succeeding With Agile, one of the top recommended scrum books. For good reason it remains at the top of the dzone top agile book lists. The book is great at identifying core scrum concepts and the […]
Certified Scrum Master
I recently took the Certified Scrum Master course taught by Brian Rabon, President of Braintrust Consulting. Brian is an extremely impressive learning genius. You can tell he has taught many years and prides himself on making all participants understand terminology and real life experience. All in all was a great course and would recommend his […]