Category Archives for coding
In Defense of Codecademy
I recently had a long conversation with a college roommate of mine (an Art History major) who expressed interest in learning a bit of coding to help organize some artwork-related data. Not really sure how serious she was about it, … Continue reading
I Learned to Program….
I recently came across I Learned to Program…, a website for which anyone can submit a sentence-long story on how they learned to program. I expected to see a plethora of stories about learning to program at age six, but after … Continue reading
My Experiences as a CS Student
I didn’t decide to major in Computer Science until the end of my sophomore year in college. It was one of those decisions that was so blatantly obvious, it makes you wonder why you never thought of it in the … Continue reading
How Effective are Technical Interviews?
Pulse, the startup I work at, is looking to hire a few more developers, and so I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the hiring process and my own experiences with interviews. The worst interview I ever had was a … Continue reading
Converting Java stack trace to string
If you have an Exception e, you might want to convert the stackTrace to a string to add to your logs. Here’s a quick code sample I found to do so from JavaPractices: public static String getStackTrace(Throwable aThrowable) { final … Continue reading
The Thrill of a Deadline
Many of my fondest memories of college are of coding in the still of the night, chugging along at a biweekly programing project or final project. I remember taking COS 126 the Fall of my Sophomore year, and coding away … Continue reading
Customizing colors for DecoratedTabPanel fail
I though customizing the color for my DecoratedTabPanel would be easy enough. Fiddle around with some background colors on css, and ta-da! Nope. StackOverflow, my reliable and reputable developer questions and answers forum, seemed to say that I would have … Continue reading
GWT History Management
Handling history properly with GWT allows you to create an intuitive user experience, where the user can switch from tab to tab and then when he/she clicks “back” on the browser, it goes to the previous tab. If you don’t handle … Continue reading
Uploading Images with GWT
Today I started trying to get image uploading working. A preliminary quick google search showed that App Engine has a handy-dandy Images API that makes it easy to “resize, rotate, flip, and crop images. It can also enhance photographs using … Continue reading
Up and running on AppEngine!
Yay, I read up on Datastore today and got a basic insert and get from datastore working, and deployed a very basic “hello world” type app to app engine! Above is a cute logo mashup I found on the Google … Continue reading