Writing is Rewriting, Desiging is Refactoring
Presentations I’ve given a lot of presentations over the years and it’s something I really enjoy doing. I realized that I’d shared some of these, but not all of them. I thought it would be nice to gather them all in one post. There are other talks that aren’t here, either because they weren’t recorded or those videos have been lost to time. Introduction to Kafka Connect August, 2022 A introduction…
A introduction to and demo of Kafka Connect given to the UMN IDEAA group.
Designing and using principles to improve the tech hiring process.
My opinions on agile, therapy and how to deal with the unexpected.
A tour through the various ways I and my team have dealt with external data sources. As well as the differences between external data and external events. ETL, Live Querying, Database Links, Kafka, CDC, and more.
Using the tools offered by GitHub to break technical silos.
A tour of getting a student’s degree progress data from UMN systems.
My team has been using Overcommit for a while. We like how easy it makes it to set up Git commit hooks for the entire team and how easy it is to see what those hooks are. Recently we decided to add Reek to our Code Quality process. To make it automatic we wanted to run Reek as part of our pre-commit hook. Overcommit already has a default hook for Reek, so making Reek run as part of every commit…
Thanks to their small, focused nature problems in Exercism tend to focus on language primitives. Transform this string into a different string, manipulate this number, etc. In the bob exercise students return a string based upon a string input. And in leap students return a boolean based on an integer input. Students tend to rely on primitives when solving these problems. The example solutions for…
Imagine you are out to dinner with some friends. You are all stereotypical Millennials so photographing your meal is expected. For every dish you order each of your friends borrows it, takes a photograph, and then returns it to you. Well, that’s the plan anyway. Some of your friends are not the most reliable. Will they always return the right dish to you? Will they try to sneak a bite? Human…