How To Be a Rebel at Work
I saw the What Rebels Want illustration make its way across Twitter recently, and it immediately resonated with me. This illustration perfectly captures how I feel and how I work, and what I strive for in my roles. It’s what I want every company, every manager that I work for to understand about me.
June 7, 2018
Angular API Calls with Django: Authentication with JWT
Curious about how to make API calls with Angular 6 and the HttpClient service? This tutorial will show you some techniques for building a decoupled micro-blogging application using Angular 6 and the Django Rest Framework (DRF). Along the way, we will learn the following:
How to set up the back end of the app using Django and the Django Rest Framework API
Creating a simple Angular 6 single-page app which can query the API
Authenticating users with JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
Ready? Let's get started!
June 4, 2018
Your Serverless Function has a Secret
Your Serverless function has a secret... maybe it's a password for a remote API, a private key, or signing certificate. These secrets have to be stored somewhere, and in the old days that usually meant just a plaintext config file on your server. Sure, you could encrypt it, but then you have to put the key on the server, and you haven't gained anything except a bit of obfuscation. Or you could use more complex schemes, like Hiera-Eyaml, which is a small improvement, but you've really just moved…
June 1, 2018
Angular 6: Upgrading API calls to RxJS 6
With the release of Angular 6.0 in May 2018, the framework has been updated to depend on version 6.0 of the RxJS library. RxJS 6.0 has some breaking changes compared to RxJS 5.5 and older, specifically in the handling of some of the methods of the Observable class. This will affect the way Angular developers write API calls and handle other asynchronous processing in the future.
This post outlines some of the changes and how to update your API calls to the new syntax.
May 23, 2018
How Static Code Analysis Taught Me About Change Management
Recently, I helped spearhead our department’s adoption of centralized static code analysis. I worked with one of our mobile engineers to research various tools and create a decision matrix for comparing options. I’ve introduced new tools to my team before, but this was my first time selecting a tool that would be rolled out and used by my entire engineering department. It was also our department’s first time trying centralized static code analysis.
May 21, 2018
Machine learning is like a garage sale
Machine learning is a field of computer science where mathematical systems “learn” from massive data to adjust their internal models using linear algebra and statistics. It is not a new discipline; machine learning has actually been around for decades but only recently did it get the exposure to make it popular.
May 21, 2018
Google IO 2018: Android has a Jetpack
One of the biggest announcements for Android™ developers from Google IO 2018 was the announcement of Android Jetpack. Android Jetpack is a collection of libraries and guidelines for developing Android applications. Most of these libraries we have seen before, including the Architecture Components released last year at Google IO. Some, are the newly refactored Support libraries, which have been renamed AndroidX.
May 11, 2018
Google IO 2018: Android Things 1.0
We’re just starting the week of Google IO 2018 and already there’s a major announcement, before the event’s official start. Android Things has been moved out of beta is now at version 1.0.
May 7, 2018
To PMP or Not to PMP?
I'm often asked for career path advice by up-and-coming professionals in the project management space. Though there are a lot of great topics to discuss around this career path, inevitably, one particular question always arises, "should I get my PMP certification?" Before I write anything else, I’ll preface by saying that my recommendation on getting the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification varies based on several factors.
May 1, 2018
The Many Hats of Quality Assurance Engineers: DevOps
Note: This is the second post in a series about the different roles I end up carrying out as a Quality Assurance Engineer. You can check out the first post here, where I talk about wearing my Tester hat!
April 6, 2018
