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Learning Spring with Hibernate

Hibernate is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) tool in Java for mapping a object-oriented domain model to a relational database. A java classes can be used to capture data, and then mapped to database tables. The actial data query and retrieval are handled through SQL...

Interviewing Technical Candidates

Recently I was asked by a friend to help screen some candidates for a software developer position. I've never done one before so I began writing down questions that came to mind that would help me assess the candidates abilties as well as his personality...

How I Became A Full Stack Developer

A few months ago I decided to actively persue my interest in front end development...

My Mavic Pro

My new DJI Mavic Pro just came in and it is awesome!

Creating a Bower Package

I've always wanted to publish some kind of library or package that people could use in their own projects. Recently I got into design discussion with one of my colleagues at work about the Macbook Photo Screensavers, specifically the one with the sliding tiles. We both wanted to try to emulate it using just CSS and flexbox. Over a period of a few days though I shifted from CSS to Javascript through JQuery to handle the layout and animations. And creating a working demo, I began thinking of how to package this in such a way that my colleague could also use this as a front-end dependency in his own project. Enter bower...

French Polynesia 2016

Creating a RESTful API Using Node and Express

IN PROGRESS...

Thailand 2016

Hosting Angular 2 on Heroku

Since I started getting into Angular 2 development, I have been looking for easy ways to hosts simple projects. Although there are plenty options available, I decided to go with Heroku, for ease of use and cheap dev options. In addition to hosting I discovered a pretty neat tool that takes care of scaffolding and boilerplate code for angular projects. To create and deploy a project from scratch I just had to a couple of commands! The project I am using for the examples below is car-dashboard-ng2CLI...

Creating a Travel Gallery

First Angular 2 App!

I've finally gotten around to Angular 2 development...

Setting Up a Custom Domain

As you may or may not know, when you create a github account, you also get one site for your user/organization, and unlimited repository pages. Its as simple as adding an `index.html` to the master branch of each repository and allowing it to use Github Pages...

Costa Rica 2016

Big Sur Roadtrip 2016

My Tesla Model S Delivered!

2016-08-26 Negril

Puerta Vallarta 2016

My Tesla Model S

A couple of months ago I got into a wreck that almost resulted in total loss for my car. During the period where damage was being assessed by my insurance, I started to let my mind wander and began researching cars again. With so many options avaiable, I spent more time refining my search based on criteria that satisfied both my wife and I's requirements, listed as follows...

2016-07-08 Bucket List

Just a list of places to see and things to do that I would like to accomplish at some point in my life. Expect this list to be constantly updated...

Puerto Rico 2016

Project Ideas

My project ideas...

Questions To Ask An Interviewer

Questions for interviewers...

First MEAN Stack App!

My first MEAN stack application...

How to Setup a Dev Project

I'll preface this post by saying there are many ways to start a develpment project, I would just like to share the specific tools and integrations that worked for my team...

Barcelona 2016

Italy 2016

How to Write a Better Blog Post

I'm really just keeping this post here to just list all the tips an tricks that I have learned from writing this blog, I guarantee that I will be updating this list quite often as writing a blog is more of a process that a creative outlet. I say that because there really is just a basic structure to writing these and any refinement in the process does make for a more engaging read...

My Honda Accord

Build a blog using Jekyll

Jekyll is awesome static site generator that can be leveraged quite easily for making blogs. Github uses Jekyll and allows for hosting jekyll pages directly! As a blogging platform, Jekyll and Github simplify updating and maintaining your blog, once its up and running...

Create a Website with Meteor

I started my career as a core java and backend developer, and for the most part of my career that was where my focus lay. Over time though I started to expanded my horizons during my free time, dabbling in various front end technologies and languages...