I’ve heard it said in so many different presentations, and said it myself more than once, that there are no new ideas or solutions in programming. If you have a question on how to do something, odds are good someone else has had it before and it’s been solved. In fact, I’ve relied on this […]
Practice with Math Dog on Alexa
I’ve been developing onto of Amazon Alexa for a few months now, and find the platform a lot of fun to use, and the possibilities pretty endless. Alexa is still fairly new, which offers its own challenges, however being one of the first developers to build and publish skills to the library is pretty awesome. I just […]
Experiments in Cloud Development
Though I originally studied application development and programming in school, and even did a bit of work as a web and database developer earlier in my career, I opted to change my focus to be more about infrastructure in IT, rather than the applications pretty early on. My background in applications and development always helped in my […]
Immersion is the Best Way to Learn
One of the first areas of technology that I got involved in was website development and programming. It began as something to kill time during the day when I was working in the theatre, and eventually developed (no pun intended) into a full fledged educational initiative when I began my Masters work in Management Information Systems. While going […]