2015 Recap: What I Did (I Think)
2015 has been a hell of a year. My New Year’s Resolution for 2015 was, whatever I worked on, I had to keep pushing through on it until I had… Read More »2015 Recap: What I Did (I Think)
Blog and Essays
How To Drink Water and Respect Your Users
I’ll never not find this funny… I usually use this cartoon with a caption about how we as product developers look at our users. I generally try to keep my… Read More »How To Drink Water and Respect Your Users
Saving and Loading App Data (Windows Store C# UWP / 8.1)
Every application needs to save information, usually in the form of objects or lists of objects. To ease Windows (Phone) app development, I have my data saving process templated in… Read More »Saving and Loading App Data (Windows Store C# UWP / 8.1)
Load a PDF in Windows Store App (8.1 & UWP)
I’m working on a project where users are going to load a PDF, but will be returning to the same PDF again and again. I was having some problems with Microsoft’s normally amazing… Read More »Load a PDF in Windows Store App (8.1 & UWP)
Azure Machine Learning: From Experiment To Deployment
For those of us who love to play with data and aspire to donning the hat of the data scientist, one of the most interesting developments in the Microsoft world… Read More »Azure Machine Learning: From Experiment To Deployment
Personal Genetics Blogging With 23andMe
I’ve started writing more and more about science and technology over at the Paradox Project. I thought it would be fun to link to some of that here. What 23andMe… Read More »Personal Genetics Blogging With 23andMe
Simple JSON API Calls In C# In 10 Minutes
github source for this project Note: This starts from scratch and integrates with the Sunlight Foundation Congress API in a few short minutes. It is not designed to model good architecture or… Read More »Simple JSON API Calls In C# In 10 Minutes
October Grab Bag o’ Awesome Things
Windows and Microsoft Things Joost van Schaik gives us Windows 10 UWP app to receive temperature data from a Raspberry PI2 and control a fan using the Azure Service Bus… Read More »October Grab Bag o’ Awesome Things
September 2015 Grab Bag Of Awesome Things
I get tired of searching back through my Twitter feed for the awesome stuff I’ve seen, so I’m collecting it here. Microsoft Research has a huge pile of data sets… Read More »September 2015 Grab Bag Of Awesome Things
Beginner’s Guide To Genetic Data
The last few months I’ve indulged in a deep dive in my own genetic data, provided to me by 23AndMe. Starting from basically no knowledge about biology or genetics, I’ve learned a huge amount about my genome and about genetics in general.