It’s been a while since I’ve done a blog post like this.
However, I’ve been busy and I have a few things to show for it:
Exciting Meetups Attended:
- Thomas Nield- Datascience with Kotlin
- This was a fantastic meetup that involved Optaplanner, SMILE, RxJavaFX, and had a few demonstrations.
- This brought back memories of my school days using AMPL and Operations Research.
- Went to the Oracle Code: Chicago Java 10 release
- I took notes: https://github.com/monksy/oraclecode2018-notes
Projects That I’ve been working on:
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- Scala99
- This is a few of my attempts at the Scala 99 practice problems.
- Temperature Sensor Data Generator
- This is a utility project that will generate a series of data from sensors that closely resemble a day’s change in temperature.
- This is to generate a large enough dataset to really demonstrate large-scale distributed processing
- CQRS Framework
- An extendable framework used to track events throughout a data object’s lifespan.
- Using Shapeless
- Currently on hold until I can fully wrap my head arround Shapeless
- Sample Akka-HTTP Based Application for Inventory Pricing
- This is a sample Akka HTTP Based application that responds to Time based requests for inventory.
- Akka HTTP was a bit irritating to setup the routing.
- Scala99
Technologies I’m Learning Right Now
- Apache Spark
- The Play Web Framework
- Amazon RedShift
- Shapeless
Books Read:
- Programming In Scala: Third Edition by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners
- Fantastic book. A blog post is coming up
- The way of baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH
- This was a fantastic book about being a high perofrmer:
- The stress
- The demand from others
- About how meditating and highly focused practivebrings improvement
- This resonated a lot with me as a software engineer.
- This was a fantastic book about being a high perofrmer:
- The Chicago Cubs: Story Of A Curse
- This felt more of half about the drama sorrounding the Cub’s experience between World Series wins and an attempt to convey history.
Things I’ve Mastered/Dealt with Cooking
- Sous Viding
- Experimented with Octopus (They were a bit too small to get right, and this was done with Sous Viding)
- The Perfect Steak and Crust on the outside
- Dry Aging Ribeye Steaks
- Keto
- Lemon Bars
- Tirmasu Fudge
- I’m very close to making a stock
Books I’m Currently Reading
Topics I want to learn/read about
- Optaplanner
- More with IOT
- I had a chance to work with a Seed WIO wifi based IOT board
- I bought a Nano PI from FriendlyElec.
- Cassandra
- ElasticSearch
- Going further indepth with Kafka
- Akka Typed