This was my first year of attending GoogleIO after attempting to for 3 years now. What I was most excited about was #dartlang and meeting the Dart team. After attending 3 of the 4 Dart sessions and some short conversations with the team, here are my biggest take aways that I think are worth sharing.
Google Now Reminders
A major feature announcement at GoogleIO 2013 was Google Now Reminders. When Google Now was launched I was very excited for reminders, but it was implemented horribly. It would set an alarm, like a wake up alarm, to remind you. This is not how I want to be reminded. I ended up putting reminders into […]
Linux Watch Command Fails on Second Try
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This is an outdated page that simply holds links to some old projects I worked on waaayy back when.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 […]