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What is a tracking cookie?
Should I be deleting them? What is a cookie? When you visit a website, the server will send you the web page you requested, but it might also send you a cookie. The cookie is a small packet of data that will get stored on your computer. This information can improve the user experience when…
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How Password Hashing Algorithms Promote Internet Security
If they says they don’t know your password, how can they tell you not to use a previous password?
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My Best Interview
13 years ago today I started my first job in IT. This was tremendously exciting as it had taken years for me to enter this field, despite my wanting and planning for this career since childhood. I figured I’d interview to be accepted as a student in their bootcamp and work towards having the company…
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My review of AWS re:Invent 2022
Tips to maximize your time at re:Invent This year I had the good fortune to be able to attend AWS re:Invent 2022 in Las Vegas. It was my first time attending re:Invent, and my first time at a convention of this size. I’ll discuss my impressions as well as some tips for future attendees. The…
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Writing Training Objectives
Engineers at larger companies will sometimes be paired with a learning content creator to construct lessons for fellow engineers. The engineers are expected to provide the material that the trainer will formulate into lessons, usually a variation of a slide deck. In most instances the trainer is not an engineer and will have a hard…
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What is a merge conflict?
You’re a project manager on a software engineering team. You plan, monitor and close out projects. You keep the team moving forward and remove blocks. At some point the engineers might declare they have a merge conflict that needs to be resolved before they can move forward. If you aren’t quite sure what a merge…
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Producers not Consumers of Technology
Are our children on their screens too much? Find my original letter to the editor (September 15th, 2022) here: https://jewishlink.news/letters/53596-nurturing-producers-of-technology-rather-than-consumers-of-technology It is with great interest that I have been reading about the Bergen County School-Shul Tech Initiative (“A Sneak Peek of What is to Come: Living Connected: A Bergen County School-Shul Tech Initiative,” Sept. 1,…
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Book Recommendation #1 – Ask For It
If you don’t ask, you don’t get. Ask For It by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever discusses how women can use the power of negotiation to get what they really want.
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Hello World!
<blog> <tldr> It took me 10 years to start on my chosen career path as a developer. After 5 years as a software engineer I realized that the skills I attained in those initial 10 years are perhaps more valuable than my engineering skills. </tldr> <body> <asteroids> I’ve wanted to be a programmer since I…