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Using Wand to extract images from PDFs in python

Software Development imagemagick, python

ImageMagick is a tool commonly used by developers to convert images between formats. It is a great tool that supports many image formats and is pretty easy to work with, once you get the command line arguments down. (It is a command line tool.) I needed to extract images from PDFs, and although I could do it […]

Moving a git repository

Software Development git

Moving between repositories On occasion, you may need to move from one repository to another. Depending on your needs, you may only care about one branch and not care about the history, in that case, you can just check out the code locally, and then add a remote and push to move. However, if you […]

Making Educational Games : Alphabet Tiles Game, Part I

Education and Technology, Game Development, Gamified Learning

This post is about the design of the Alphabet Tiles game, not the graphics for the game, but the description of it. This is what Game Designers do, they create the definition of the game. A good step in game design is to start with a GDD or Game Design Document. The game design document […]

Learning with TwilioQuest

Education and Technology, Fun-N-Games, Gamified Learning, Software Development learn to code

TwilioQuest Review Twilio has created an awesome game that is designed to teach students to program. I’m going to start by just saying – if you are interested in learning to code, then this app is fun and a great way to get started! Also if you have a friend who is learning to code […]

Gamification in Action

Gamified Learning

Gamification has become a bit of a dirty word in Education, and there have been many detractors in business as well. I recently read this Quora question, “Is Gamification Evil?” and I wanted to both respond to the response, and also show an example of Gamification that most developers who use GitHub are familiar with, […]

Planning Poker

Gamified Learning, Software Development

The gamification of Agile planning poker Planning poker® is a part of many Agile team’s rituals and is used during the estimation of stories. The main goal of planning poker is to enable the team to estimate their stories in a fun way – but it also helps the estimation process in many ways. I’ve […]

Using different emails for GitHub notifications

Software Development

If you have multiple organizations that you code with, you may have noticed that all of the GitHub notifications go to a single inbox. This may be useful, but for me, I prefer to have the relevant emails sent to individual inboxes. For instance, my personal repository should update my personal email, and a business […]

Python Libraries for Computational Statistics, Data Science & Machine Learning

AI, Software Development machine learning, python

Python libraries for computational statistics and data science Python is a perfect choice for working with data, but it is not the only choice, R is also a great choice for instance. But since python is very accessible and it is a general-purpose language that you can use for other projects, it may be the best choice […]

Avent of Code 2020

Education and Technology, Fun-N-Games, Software Development

AdeventOfCode.com is a site that has, for many years, offered an incredibly fun and challenging set of puzzles during the month of December. If you are an aspiring software engineer or a seasoned pro, this site is for you! The site has a simple new challenge for each day of December leading up to the […]

Hello World with NX and React Native

Software Development JavaScript, React-Native

I’ve been exploring React Native recently with NX to add native applications to existing repositories that have to React applications in them. This is to start to see how you can use NX and shared libraries to have common logic and views shared between the mobile and web portions of the application or site. Here […]