Building a Raspberry Pi-Powered Kubernetes Cluster
Kubernetes was being used more and more at my office, so I wanted to dive in myself and figure out how this thing worked. I’d seen a few posts about buildin...
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How to freeze page Javascript execution in Chrome
As a QA engineer, there are often times when I’ll be working with dynamic elements on a page that disappear on mouse out. This can be extremely tedious to t...
Useful Amazon Echo features
I purchased an Amazon Echo recently and am writing this post to catalog useful features I’ve discovered with it.
Reification vs. Erasure in Java Collections
This is another concept I came across in Joshua Bloch’s “Effective Java.” According to Wikipedia,
Jetta vs. Rock Pile: our backpacking trip to Waucoma Lakes
(spoiler alert: the rock pile won)
Generic method for filtering lists with Google Guava
The following is a generic method for filtering lists with the Google Guava library that uses Predicates.
How to persistently set environment variables on OSX 10.10
In OSX Yosemite, for security reasons, Apple disabled the ability to set environment variables from the /etc/launchd.conf file. But never fear, you can still...
On the HTML 5 “data” attribute
This attribute can not only contain text values, but any arbitrary JavaScript value, including arrays and objects. This is extremely useful for scoping and e...
jQuery: make selection from sub-tree
By default, jQuery selectors operate on all items in the DOM. There is an overloaded search function, however, that allows the creation of selectors based on...
Object-oriented design principles
I recently read Head First Design Patterns, and they had a handy set of Object-Oriented design principles that were repeated throughout the book that I wante...