RestSharp made huge changes with the release of v107. It’s a major upgrade, which contains some breaking changes. For instance, most of the interfaces are now gone. For me, it meant all of our legacy API connection code broke without substantial rework if anyone updated NuGet packages in a project. …

The digital divide is an economic, social, and technological gap between different demographics and sectors of society. The digital divide boils down to a lack of access to modern computing in some form or another. …

I think, all in all, the real key to finding motivation and meaning everyday is by taking advantage of each day to just live and be, without expecting anything from yourself or from anyone else. This doesn’t mean Nihilism, it means mindfulness. One of the things that keeps my motivation…

Pho and ramen are both common soup noodle dishes popular in different parts of Asia (as well as around the world). I’m personally a huge fan of both but I’ve met people who didn’t know what pho was or that ramen isn’t just instant noodles in a bag or cup…

REST API’s are powerful tools for automation and data analysis among other tasks, but they are also one of the most frustrating parts of building a new application. …

Big data is cool. Being able to use it right and make it all actually make sense is even cooler. The problem is, there are a lot of pitfalls to working with large data sets and each minor misstep can make the next step in the process slightly off or…

Metadata provides a general description of what is contained in a collection or repository of data which can range from technical specifications such as resolution or color depth for images, what the general contents are for GIS applications (region, lat/longs, etc.), to where and how the data was collected. With…

Staring at a screen all day doesn’t come without its costs. While I really don’t want to stare at a screen all day, it’s a bit hard not to when you work in tech and blog on the side. …

The internet as a global information tool has been in free fall for decades now. It started the second the government understood its information delivery abilities. While Gilmore’s quote that: The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it, has largely rung true, the number of valid routes around…