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GemCity TECH Mini-Conference

Experience the energy of a tech conference—right here in Dayton, for free! This one-day mini-conference brings together five expert speakers covering great software development, architecture, leadership, and security topics.

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GemCity TECH: Tech Roulette

Networking is a powerful tool in your job search arsenal. Building and maintaining a broad and diverse network can significantly enhance your career prospects.

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COSQAM: Evolving QA in Modern Agile Software Development

This was a panel session of questions and answers about QA.

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[SCARY] Visual Regression Testing

I needed to validate that there were minimal changes over hundreds of pages from one release to the next. This is my solution.

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CodeMash 2025

My experiences at what I consider one of the finest conferences around (not just Ohio).

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Setting and Managing Daily Goals

How do we set and manage daily goals?

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CSS' only-child instead of Conditional Logic

We can use a simply CSS pseudo-class to remove awkward logic.

Learn More 14 9Oct 25 '24

I took a Bootcamp Fullstack Course

What happens when a Senior Developer takes a boot camp fullstack course? Let's see ...

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It's Always About Bob

It's always about Bob. For me, the journey into considering who "Bob" is started with an amazingly funny movie, "What About Bob?"

Learn More 6 3Feb 29 '24

Interview Preparation

Things to account for, research, and practice.

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Overthinking the Programmer's Brain

I was so deep into my own thoughts and ownership of the code that I couldn't see the good that was right in front of me all the time. Here are a few things to consider for those of us that overthink things in our lives ...

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JavaScript: Not-Not (!!) Anti-Pattern

The Not-Not Pattern (!!), or bang-bang, is a way in JavaScript to do a type conversion. This pattern can have some significant and unexpected side-effects.

Learn More 9 2May 23 '22

JavaScript: Destructuring Assignment

The **destructuring assignment** syntax is a JavaScript expression that makes it possible to unpack values from arrays, or properties from objects, into distinct variables.

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AWS: Database Request Units

AWS Database Request Units are one area that I always have to refer back to. I wrote this reference to make sure I understand the math needed.

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JavaScript: Map versus forEach

When deciding between map and forEach, the first consideration should be a functional issue. The map function does not change the original data.

Learn More 9 0Apr 30 '22

The Distressed Code Review

Their code-review process was broken. It took weeks or more to get a review completed. It was all done in the name of writing "good code," but the result was less than effective.

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The Defensive Code Reviews

The reviews would come in. I read them. I got angry. How dare anyone question "MY CODE?"

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My Rubber Duck

One of the most curious things I did was start a photo series I called "Froglette." We dropped him in the mail and an unusual story began.

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Do You Have Any Questions About Us?

I have recently realized that I was doing something wrong and I'd like to document it here in the hopes that this technique will help someone else.

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MS Teams: Animated Background

Geeks like myself are bothered by the fact that we cannot (actually, we can) use an animated background in Microsoft Teams.

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Angular CLI Install Fails on RxJS

When installing the Angular CLI we could see that there was a Fetch Error occurring.

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Stand Out with a Programmer's Brain

What advice would you give me so that I can stand out from the crowd and allow me to land my first developer job. That is a big question.

Learn More 9 0Feb 28 '22

Starting Work With A Programmer's Brain

I've gotten continuous requests for information about starting out in the tech industry. The core of this article are some things that can make your first 30-days stand out.

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My Programmer's Brain

(Or, how to not go through the somewhat painful 38+ year process it took me to find my dream job.) I...

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Targeting a Programmer's Brain

I am providing this information based on decades of experience, moving from job to job, ultimately looking for something and not even truly realizing what I was looking for until I got there.

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Schmoozing With A Programmer's Brain

When networking, there are a few things you can do to ensure success and reduce stress.

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Katas With A Programmer's Brain

Who ever thinks to go back and try challenges again a month later to see how they've improved? Should we go back and try again as we learn more of the functionality of the languages we are exploring?

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Senior versus Junior Developers

I'm so tired of people treating me like a high school kid who just wrote her first hobby program on this platform. This affects me for the worse.

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@angular/common Functions

Angular has a series of date functions (and more). I've seen that pipes are the preferred methods for using this type of functionality. However, I want to introduce this functionality for anyone considering using an external tool that can be managed within Angular itself.

Learn More 6 0Jan 10 '22

Testing Stubbed Functionality in Code

I've always blocked `console.log` when my Unit Tests run. This scenario showed me that the Unit Tests can be used to ensure the "stubbed" code will break the tests when the real functionality gets put in place.

Learn More 4 0Jan 3 '22