on Wed, Apr 06, 2016 by Brandon Harris · 15 min reading time
It's been several years since I've had to go through the full interviewing process. The technical interviewing process has been changing slightly over the years. There have been a few additions that have increased the time committment considerably. This is my take away from a dozen different interviews that I recently experienced. Getting Started It's tricky to interview for a job while you have a current job. On any given day I could be pulled into important meetings, have to deal with a fire drill, or stumble with coming up with another excuse to be absent for a mysterious period of time.
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on Sun, Feb 21, 2016 by Brandon Harris · 4 min reading time
I recently migrated this site to use Hugo instead of Jekyll. I was considering Middleman or simply updating the base version of Jekyll. However, there are a few reasons why I chose Hugo:
I wanted to evaluate Hugo I want more exposure to the Go language This is where I can experiment It's crazy fast I have previously built dozens of tiny sites using Middleman, so it was the first thing I reached for in my toolbox.
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on Thu, Aug 02, 2012 by Brandon Harris · 1 min reading time
I had a difficult time finding out how to do this the way I wanted. Let's say you want to do a check for a value not being null along with other logic, say an IN clause. You're led down a path of forumulating a string that gets hairy
ids = [1,2,3] SomeRecord.where("some_column is not null and id in (#{ids.join(','})") That's kind of gross. I've done it, and I've seen it done.
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