A place to share my favorite memories and tech I am interested in
This blog has turned into more of a technical spot recently; however, it started as a place for me to share my favorite memories. This post will be about my 5-day backpacking trip with an amazing group of friends on the Lost Coast Trail in Northern California King Range National
I was lucky enough to attend Microsoft Build 2017 this year. A ton of great products were announced and released at Build. And I want to list out some of the ones that got me the most excited while at the conference. Microsoft Visual Studio for Mac This is a
I just hit my one year anniversary at my organization as a mob programming software engineer. I wanted to share one of the experiences I have had over the course of that year. My first 9 months at Hunter I worked with the same team. The team consisted of eight
When I start down a new solution or looking at how to solve a problem one of the first things to jump into my head are all the crazy edge cases that may or may not ever occur. I see it as a blessing in disguise because, in the long
What is EventWaitHandle “The EventWaitHandle class allows threads to communicate with each other by signaling and by waiting for signals.” Problem faced How do I go about testing an EventWaitHandle. Events are being published threads are flying around the application and I want to test my WaitOn() and Set() calls
I want to call this blog post Part 1 because I know there are and will be more things going right because of Mob Programming. As of right now, I have been mob programming for just under a year. So for part one, I wanted to explain two of the major
In this post, I will describe the basics of designing and working with the IntentSchema for an Amazon Alexa skill. To provide some context, an Alexa skill can have multiple intents. Each intent is a specific action within the skill. Imagine we have a calculator skill. The user can ask Alexa
A non code approach to explaining components of an Alexa Skill
Friday at work and no plans for Saturday. So I started asking around and seeing what coworkers were planning. I honed in on plans with Tom, snowshoeing up at Palomar Mountain! It had been pouring rain by Southern California standards for the past few days, so we were hoping for a
Part two of the Winter 2016 camping trip was the Arroyo Tapiado Mud Caves in Anza Borrego State Park. This is one of my favorite spots to explore in Anza Borrego. One of the main reasons for that is you can really get some solitude. Only street legal vehicles are