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I’ve been busy with a c# project for years and now it’s time to get back on the grind. It’s tiresome sending out resumes but it’s exciting to get a fresh, new project. I enjoy meeting new teams and enjoy sinking my teeth into new problems/solutions. Also my site is due from a little freshening… Continue reading Back on the Grind

Network monitors exist and network mice exist, but for the same OS. I needed a network mouse that worked from PC <> Mac and I’ve been looking for an application like this for far too long.

Today I found it, and I want to brag.

Using ShareMouse I’m not using my mac as a second monitor. Even the free version is great! Anyway, highly recommended if you’re needing some network mouse sharing.

https://www.sharemouse.com/

I like this link which covers Big O Notation. Great for brushing up on your skills!

https://www.interviewcake.com/article/java/big-o-notation-time-and-space-complexity

https://medium.com/@jigarm/ios-app-icon-and-launch-image-sizes-e8d5990cb72b

http://iossupportmatrix.com/

I was looking around for some cool canvas text effects and found this page which is pretty great to find some canvas based text inspiration

I’ve found debugging to be tricky with Node, until today. Running with the `–inspect` flag is pretty cool, mind you it’s “experimental” and “may be disconued at any time” !

Recap: `$ node –inspect yourFile.js`

Then node will give you a CHROME-ONLY url to debug your script. I highly recommed enabling the auto-break feature in the inspector tools. If you’re not familiar that, look at pausing on exceptions in chrome.

I learned a neat trick today. You can’t break a javascript forEach loop but you can break a some and an every but there are specific rules.

`some` will only break when a value equivalent to true is returned`every` will only break when a vlue equivalent to false is returned

TDD is great for large applications, TDD is great for teams. The only time not to use TDD is if you’re just beginning with coding. If you understand the basics, move to TDD next. For those of you ready to learn about TDD here are some great articles I either found or had referred to me.

Difference Between TDD and BDD – A Helpful Stack Overflow Answer

I found out about this watching a youtube video. The author used mockaroo.com to mock up data quickly. This is great for when you merely need test data any any given popular format.