After spending a couple years away from C# and node.js programming doing a fair amount of ETL work and a lot of Java, I'm working on getting back into the swing of two of my favorite languages. Yes, I'll admit it - my controversial take is that I actually like JavaScript a lot of the… Continue reading Better Know A Method! with Ramda’s .cond(), part 1
Welcome Back, WordPress…
This evening, I broke down and moved my site off Hexo and back over to WordPress. Hexo is a great piece of software and gives you tons of control, but as you might have guessed from the blistering pace of updates here, I have somewhat limited free time for blogging. I decided I'd much rather… Continue reading Welcome Back, WordPress…
Routing nginx requests by querystring
I'm writing this up as much for my own future reference as I am to help others, since I found the documentation a bit lacking in this area. For reasons not worth getting into, I needed to build a proof-of-concept to transparently proxy requests to different servers based on a querystring value, using nginx as… Continue reading Routing nginx requests by querystring
Flattening a List
Getting back to writing articles after spending the better part of a month fighting off a sinus infection and helping my wife get over a nasty cold. Normally I love northeast Ohio, but I'm so over winter right now. I read a post a month or so ago asking why it's so difficult for programmers… Continue reading Flattening a List
Parsing Bank Transactions with Ramda, Part 2
Parsing Bank Transactions with Ramda, Part 1 Bank Transactions with Ramda, Part 2 (this article) When we left off, we'd gotten our data imported from the CSV, run a map operation on it to add some extra metadata, demonstrated how to use Ramda to filter it, and had a quick demonstration of simple currying. Let's… Continue reading Parsing Bank Transactions with Ramda, Part 2
Parsing Bank Transactions with Ramda, Part 1
Parsing Bank Transactions with Ramda, Part 1 (this article) Bank Transactions with Ramda, Part 2 Recently, I'd wanted to sort through a bunch of transaction data from my bank to figure out what our spending trends were in a couple of areas. I suppose I could've done this quite effectively with Excel or Apple Numbers,… Continue reading Parsing Bank Transactions with Ramda, Part 1
Installing a list of extensions in Visual Studio Code
I’ve been setting up a new OS X installation and wanted to quickly get Visual Studio Code set back up. Atom has a really handy command line utility, apm, that lets you do useful things like export a list of extensions and reinstall them elsewhere by passing in that list as a command line argument.… Continue reading Installing a list of extensions in Visual Studio Code