I dove into the world of cryptocurrency at the end of 2016. Just before the crazy rush of December but still very late to the game. November and December were a blur of activity. There was room for nothing else in my mind for those two months. The downward stroke sucked but I hadn’t invested… Read More »
Getting into cryptocurrency is like a small drug. You put in the hard work creating a machine to do the mining. You tweak spend far too long tweaking it to maximize the hash you get while keeping power consumption low. Each time you check your hash rate or your pending balance of coins you get… Read More »
After many years being a bystander on the world of cyptocurrency I’ve finally taken the plunge into making a starter rig to mine some coins of my own. Getting “in” to cyptocurrency doesn’t have to be as technical as building a computer though. I found the easiest way to just buy coins with cash is… Read More »
Working with the web has always been accessible thanks in large part to the ability to just inspect the code of whatever site you’re on to see how it works. Many modern sites are being created as single page applications and being driven mainly by client side API calls to retrieve data or update the… Read More »
In a recent post named “Merging Multiple Style Sheets to Support Themes” I detailed the journey undertaken to add theme support to the Dovetail Agent product. Now you’ll learn the basic process to creating a theme tailored to your company’s branding. We’ll start by installing or setting up any tools we’re going to use. The… Read More »
Personalization or customization of the things we use has been a standard option for users to do for a very long time and it appears almost ubiquitously in the computing world. Computer users can spend a seemingly endless amount of time customizing their desktop interface’s wallpaper, window color scheme, system sounds and the fonts or… Read More »
The idea of code coverage as a metric to ensure a code base is exercised really appeals to me. However when I would try to add it to my existing project I would struggle, flounder and decide to try again later on after burning too much time on it. The lure of ready to run testing stacks… Read More »
The government has been crying out, at least from the top, for more software development talent to come work for them. Specifically, I’ve heard quotes about talking to “entrepreneurs, moviemakers, organizations, tech leaders” that come from Facebook and Google. They have brought in people for short bursts even from companies who donate that employee’s time… Read More »
I love the natural world. I find it easy to say but hard to define. I moved out to the 2222 and 620 or Four Points area about 13 years ago. I’ve moved away twice but always returned and have spent about 10 years here now. I’ve watched the stretch of 2222 between 360 and… Read More »
I forgot to mention something in the guide I made on Running UI tests in Internet Explorer with Jenkins on AWS. The default resolution is very small and quite possibly too small for the WebDriver to ‘click’ on elements that might appear off screen. There are many registry hacks out there that all claim to… Read More »