Six Years of Deep in the Code

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In looking through my older posts, I realized that I wrote my first post, Guide for the Perplexed, six years ago yesterday. I don’t have as much time to write as much as did during the first couple of years of this blog; I generally write two posts per month now. Even so, I hope … Read more

Code School will be Having a Black Friday Special!

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I have found Code School to be a great resource both for those just learning to code as well as those who are experienced coders, but want to learn a new programming language. It has multiple paths: Ruby (including Ruby on Rails), JavaScript (includes jQuery and CoffeeScript), HTML/CSS, iOS, Git, and an Electives path for … Read more

Focusing on Big Data This Year with Hadoop, R, and Python

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This year I plan to focus on learning more about “Big Data” and its related technologies, such as machine learning. Currently, I’m planning on studying Hadoop, R, and Python. What other technologies do you think should be added to this list?