I am not a system admin so I don’t remember how to do an infinite loop in bash, tcsh, ksh, perl, wtv*sh etc. So I really like the solution of the ‘watch‘ command. Example: The Problem on Second Try Sometimes, however, the first try works as desired and the second try prints weird errors, often […]
Code Kata Reporting Tool
Code Katas are so useful we wanted to analyze, share, and relive the infamous experience. Code katas are a core training practice for software development that I believe heavily in. To read more about what they are and a list of good ones to practice see my Dojo Code Katas post. Here I want to […]
Dojo Code Katas
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This is an outdated page that simply holds links to some old projects I worked on waaayy back when.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 […]