Failed the Turing Test

The second class in the Scala specialization down. I was a little put off by the fact that this is basically a retooled/abridged version of...

Backstory I've wanted to dabble in digital art for some time now, and I finally got up the motivation to play around with it a bit on...

Motivation While working through the Scala Principles class, the final unit had an example exercise that involved creating a "mnemo...

After a long break ( Advanced Algos took a lot out of me), I decided it was time to take another class. When the topic of taking the Scala...

For a long time I've been eyeing Jelani Nelson's Advanced Algorithms class. It's taken me a while to convince myself I was prepa...

Several months ago I embarked on a project at work that made me question my decisions in life.  Well, ok, that's a bit melodramatic.  Bu...

Introduction Last September (2017) I got the bright idea that it would be fun to make a game for the command line. I wanted it to be gr...

Back, oh, probably in September 2017 or so, a couple of MOOC buddies and I decided we wanted to tackle 6.042 together.  For my part, I felt ...

Other Study Guides Tobias Nilsson's Study Guide (Alert Coding) Chris Myers' Study Guide (Blogged by Chris) PluralSight Learnin...

Exam Objectives Implement HTTPBasic authentication over SSL; implement Windows Auth; prevent cross-site request forgery (XSRF); design, im...

Exam Objectives Host Web API in an ASP.NET app; self-host a Web API in your own process (a Windows service) including Open Web Interface f...

Exam Objectives Consume Web API services by using HttpClient synchronously and asynchronously; send and receive requests in different form...

Exam Objectives Accept data in JSON format (in JavaScript, in an AJAX callback); use content negotiation to deliver different data formats...

Effective Java  was written by Joshua Bloch in 2001, and the second edition released in 2009 shortly after the release of Java 6.  I receive...

One of the things my boss asked me to do before I leave Farm Bureau for the bustling Bay Area was to put together some resources related to ...

Exam Objectives Define HTTP resources with HTTP actions; plan appropriate URI space, and map URI space using routing; choose appropriate H...

Exam Objectives Perform an in-place upgrade and VIP swap; configure an upgrade domain; create and configure input and internal endpoints; ...

Exam Objectives Create an IIS InstallPackage ; configure the build process to output a web package; apply pre- and post- condition actions...

Exam Objectives Switch from production/release mode to debug mode; use SetParameters to set up an IIS app pool; set permissions and passwo...

Exam Objectives Create an IIS install package; deploy to web farms; deploy a web application by using XCopy; automate a deployment from TF...