Nuances of Overloading and Overriding in Java

I've been programming in Java for over half a decade, and thought I had mastered all aspects of overloading and overriding. It was only once I started thinking of and writing up the following edge cases, that I realized I didn't know it nearly as well as I thought. In an effort to gamify these … Continue reading Nuances of Overloading and Overriding in Java →

Building a WebApp from A-Z: The Caucus Tech Stack

When building Caucus, my first personal project, I had a couple of core goals and philosophies that I used to guide all my decisions. Keep it simple. Keep it small. Be very lazyFocus ruthlessly on your user experience and value add. For all other distractions: Outsource and minimizeEnable rapid scalability to millions of visitors if … Continue reading Building a WebApp from A-Z: The Caucus Tech Stack →

From Hello-World to Web-Launch in 2 Years

There was a time when I had never seen nor touched an IDE. I had never laid eyes on Java, SQL, AWS or even REST APIs. If you had told me that over the next 2 years I would go on to build and deploy my own web API, with the entire REST interface coded … Continue reading From Hello-World to Web-Launch in 2 Years →