Level Up Your Coding Skills With exercism.io

Level Up Your Coding Skills With exercism.io

A few months ago I stumbled across across an interesting open source project created by Katrina Owen called exercism.io that provides a collection of programming practice problems in over 30 languages. On the surface, it’s a great resource for learning to code or learning a new language. I’ve found however that as you dig deeper it has much more to offer on a number of levels.

Bringing Radio to a Software Engineer’s World

Bringing Radio to a Software Engineer’s World

When we think of the term radio, “high-tech” isn’t the first word that comes to mind anymore. A lot of people will think of analog commercial radio (“FM/AM“), something that started up around the 1920s. In fact, many airports, public safety organizations, and...

Greatest Hits (Vol. 1)

I’m just realizing that this here blog just celebrated its first birthday — my first ‘hello world’ post here was May 1, 2012. This seems like a good opportunity to go looking through the archives and point to some older posts that newer...

Friday Linked List (revisited)

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a link dump here. The recurring (but not exclusive!) theme today is that specialization is for insects. A post went up on  Dr Dobb’s yesterday that shows some very telling data that’s maybe obvious to many...