17 posts tagged with "engineering"

I've been using TypeScript more and more lately. And I don't like it. I've found that I spend more time fixing type mismatch errors than I save by having a strongly typed variant of JavaScript. However, I am commonly in the minority opinion among my teams. In this article, I'll explore why that is, how to better leverage TypeScript's typing system rather than treating like annotations on top of Javascript, and I'll go through some hands-on examples based on a few real-world cases we recently encountered.

APIs or Application Programming Interfaces are, like their name implies, an interface to an application that allows other systems to interact with them programmatically. In this post, we'll discuss some foundational concepts and distill the lexicon associated with APIs into tangible knowledge.

In preparation for our upcoming pilot bootcamp, I've been working on a few programming challenges. Since we're challenging our bootcamp participants to learn a new language as part of this effort, I thought I'd do the same and finally begin exploring Rust.

Last updated March 24, 2023

This article contains my collection of learning resources and reading material to help me grow and stay up to date on industry topics.

This is a brief writeup of some of my notes on how to calculate probabilities.

Notation​

$P(A \cap B) \rightarrow$ The probability of A AND B

$P(A \cup B) \rightarrow$ The probability of A OR B

$P(A | B) \rightarrow$ The conditional probability of A given B

In this article, we discuss asynchronicity in Javascript, its evolution over time, and some of the patterns for dealing with various asynchronous challenges. We'll discuss callbacks, promises, and the present-day async/await approach to asynchronicity and when and how each of these are relevant in modern applications.

In this article we'll build on my previous article, Web Development Basics with Python & Flask and introduce the Javascript language and the concept of asynchronous communication with a webserver to provide a clean and dynamic user experience.

This article introduces some of the basic concepts of batteries with particular applications for hobby-level small aircraft projects and similar. My aim for this article is to supplement my students' research for their senior design projects and provide an introductory walkthrough of the topic.

Getting started with web development can be daunting and overwhelming if you don't know where to start. This article will take you step-by-step through the basics of getting your first web application built.

Despite the wide adoption of modern agile practices, formal engineering requirements remain important in many organizations. Formal requirements are often defined early in a project (i.e. before design and implementation), though they often evolve throughout the product lifecycle. They are important because project and industries that define formal requirements specifications tend to hold engineering teams accountable to meeting those requirements. Formal requirements can derive from industry regulation and compliance standards such as FAA regulations, FCC requirements, NIST cybersecurity standards, HIPPA compliance, PCI standards, etc. or be defined by engineering teams in collaboration with customers to capture project-specific constraints.