Back in 2019, some dude in a bar would say to me “Wow, Phil! Working from home must be awesome LOL! It’s like you’re never at work LMAO!!!!” And I’d be like “Well yeah, it’s pretty cool to roll out of bed 3 minutes before you’re supposed to be at work, and you get to do it while watching the Price is Right like you’re taking a sick day from school. But really, it’s kind of the opposite. It’s almost like I’m never NOT at work.”
[Continue Reading]Four Reasons To Consider an Investment In Custom Software
Deciding to invest in custom software is not a decision that should be taken lightly. It can be expensive to implement and maintain. Most companies do not have the teams in place to build and maintain software internally and must depend on development partners to help them.
[Continue Reading]Caramel Demo
Today we’re talking about Caramel and how we use it at Fanzoo. Caramel is a framework (available on NuGet for those following along at home) written by Fanzoo’s own Justin DeCourcy. Caramel acts as a kind of connective tissue for some other libraries that we use. Caramel contains lots of components, but today we are going to focus on the following…
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Madlibs Are {{ADJ}}!
This time at Learn Something we decided to try a classic game: Madlibs! The challenge was to make a program that will read in a Madlib template from a user. It will then ask for the appropriate parts of speech for the user to fill in to complete the Madlib. Finally, it will fill in all the blanks in the Madlib with the user’s words and display the result to the user.
Doublets: Solved!
This past Learn Something, we presented our learners with a challenge: write a program that will solve doublets, those word puzzles you see in newspapers sometimes. While all teams completed the task, Jeff Yates finished with the most complete solution, which offered the shortest answer to the puzzle. The solutions presented ended up bringing up neat concepts like trees, breadth-first vs depth-first traversal, charts, and navigation algorithms.
What’s The Word?
Last month at Learn Something we tried something new, and it turned out really well! Learn Something has always been a great place to get together and work on whatever everyone is interested in. Lately we’ve had a lot more inexperienced developers joining us and we wanted to make it easier for them to jump right in, contribute, and gain some skills. With that in mind, we decided to try something more structured that could involve everyone who was interested.
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