Places to find me on the internet
- My LinkedIn Profile
- My GitHub Profile
- StackOverflow:
Some stuff I’ve been working on
2024
I’ve spent a lot of time on PluralSight video training and LeetCode algorithm challenges. Please take a look at my PluralSight profile for more info and at My LeetCode profile.
2022-2023
Studied:
- AWS Cloud Development Kit: The Big Picture AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK): The Big Picture
- Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch
- Utilizing Amazon Eventbridge in Serverless Applications
- Introduction to the Amazon Simple Workflow
Reltio Master Data Management Courses (learn.reltio.com):
- Graph Search
- Data Export using the Export API
- Reltio Configuration Fundamentals
- Export DataConfiguration Fundamentals - Exporting Data
- Configuring the Reltio Data Model
- Introduction to Master Data Management with Reltio
April 28, 2022
I’ve gotten a lot of technical questions on interviews over the years. To help get in the frame of mind, and as a refresher on some concepts, I’ve been maintaining this developer interview prep spreadsheet over the years
Completed watching PluralSight: Node.js 12: The Big Picture. Good refresher on the architecture of NodeJS and it’s current state.
February 2022
Studied Snowflake SnowPRO Core Exam Preparation
April 12, 2022
My PluralSight activity was under a different account from May 2019 to April 2022. See linked file for list of courses taken.
June 21, 2019
Implemented an Azure Devops CI/CD pipeline to my personal UAT website hoppeuat.azurewebsites.net (I have taken it down since then)
April 19, 2019
Back in action blogging! Removing unnecessary using statements.
Jan 3, 2017
Wrote my first blog post! .Net developer revisits Java after a decade
May 1, 2016
Completed PluralSight course Using Git for Source Control in Visual Studio 2019
April 13, 2016
Redesigned the site using React-Create-App (React 16).
October 30, 2016
Began project to upgrade this site from Angular 1 to 2.
2016 Azure website (since removed)
I used to maintain
- Implemented a TypeScript outFile for a simple form of cache busting! I.e. “outFile”: “./build / build_1.0.001.js”
- Switched hosting providers from AppHarbor to an Azure web app!
- Launched my first Node.js app on AppHarbor! It’s a couple landing pages that provide links to the new Azure app
- Added an About Me page!
- Replaced Bower with NPM!
- Linted the site with TSLint!
- Enabled HTML 5 mode routing! Not interested in supporting < IE11.
- Migrated much of the site’s JS to TypeScript 1.8!
2015 AppHarbor site hoppe.apphb.com (since removed)
- Disabled Angular debugInfo to improve performance!
- Wrote my first LESS, and compiled it with Gulp!
- Vetted it with JSCS and JSHint, all thanks to John Papa’s course on JavaScript Build Automation with Gulp.js!
- Upgraded to Angular 1.4.4!
- Added a Bootstrap stylesheet from Bootswatch as well.
- Mocked out this backend using ngMock.
- Upgraded to Angular 1.4.4!
- Added a Bootstrap stylesheet from Bootswatch as well.
- Mocked out this backend using ngMock.
- Redid the site using Bower 1.3 as a package manager!
- Implemented a rough Angular CDN failback mechanism.
- Loving the Visual Studio SideWaffle templates!
April 10, 2015
Wrote my first AngularJS plugin module! Find Angular Errors on Toast on Github.
November 20, 2014
I’ve been looking long and hard for great resources for application architects. There appears to be a great shortage. But I did find one good one: High Scalability. I recommend checking it out. They seem to have great articles on improving performance and designing software.
November 7, 2014
Earned 1,000+ reputation on StackOverflow! My StackOverflow Profile
May 22, 2014
I told my manager that I was learning AngularJS. He asked me to demo what I had done to him and my teammates. Bored them to death! :)
2014 AppHarbor site hoppe.apphb.com (since removed)
Launched an AngularJS 1.2 site! Also built on:
- MVC 5.1 (MVC was later dropped)
- Bootstrap 3
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