Category Archives: Misc

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October 12, 2020

Examining How Brain Computer Interfaces Will Shape the Future

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We are not strangers to the unprecedented ways that new technological devices can reshape society. In the last decade, we have witnessed how things like smart phones and social media have dramatically altered how we, as humans, interact.

One of the major technological advances that will likely continue to shape our human interactions is brain computer interface (BCI) technology. In this post, I am going to delve into the history of the BCI and look at some of the current developments happening in the realm of BCI technology.

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October 5, 2020

Textiles and Tech Styles – How Textiles Influence High Tech

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It may seem strange to bring up textiles when discussing computer programming. However, my interest in the correlation between the two was piqued last week when my friend sent me a question currently circulating on the internet: Is it possible to knit DOOM? Thinking about this question led me to consider the immense influence that the textile industry has had on computer science and modern technology. 

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September 14, 2020

Defining Talent in UX Design

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There have been countless books written on talent, we know talent when we see it, and we can sense talent in people around us. While most of us have a fundamental understanding of what the word “talent” means, most of us would have a hard time clearly defining it.

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August 31, 2020

Optimizing User Flow Test Automation with QA IDs

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User flow testing, also known as workflow testing, analyzes how an application is performing from the standpoint of the user. In this post, I am going to talk about some of the challenges with automating these types of tests and how we’ve addressed these challenges on several recent projects. 

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August 24, 2020

Understanding PDF Generation with Headless Chrome

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Headless browsers are currently gaining popularity as an efficient way to test web applications because they do not affect the user interface. In this post, I am going to discuss the benefits of Headless Chrome and two approaches for using Headless Chrome to automatically create PDF reports. 

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August 17, 2020

The Uncertain Future of Moore’s Law

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In 1965, Gordon Moore, CEO and co-founder of Intel, made a prediction that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit (the main component on a computer chip) would double every two years for at least the next decade. This prediction, known today as Moore’s Law, has continued to be fulfilled since 1965. While it is known as Moore’s Law, Gordon Moore’s prediction is not truly a law; rather, it is a trend that chipmakers around the world have been encouraged to match via technological advancements, research, and development. 

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August 10, 2020

Concurrency on Android with Kotlin Coroutines

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Concurrency is not something that most people think about on a daily basis; however, it benefits most of us throughout our day. Whenever we ask our technological devices to perform multiple tasks, either within one application or across multiple applications, our device is using concurrency to make it happen. Thanks to concurrent programming, our devices are able to multitask at the same rate that we do.  

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July 20, 2020

The History of Modern Text Editors

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Text editors are computer applications that edit plain text. Text editors are fundamental to our work and developers tend to have very strong opinions about which one is the best.  In this blog post I’ll discuss some of the history of computing with respect to text editors, and the pros and cons of two of the text editors that developers have a love/hate relationship with – eMacs and Vim. 

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July 13, 2020

The Convergence Continues: 2020 Android and iOS Updates

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It is officially mobile OS season – Android and iOS have both recently announced the new mobile updates that will be available between now and September 2020. In this post, I’d like to talk about the operating system changes that I believe are the most important, the general themes of the announced updates, and how the two operating systems are slowly converging with each new release. 

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