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Cleveland civic leaders are gaga for blockchain right now. Organizations are pulling together in an uncharacteristic way, in support of Bernie Moreno's moonshot "Blockland". This week, Noriel Roubini's delivered well-researched statements for the Senate banking committee, on why cryptocurrency is a scam ("the mother or father of all scams and bubbles"), and blockchain is massively overhyped ("In practice it is nothing better than a glorified spreadsheet or database"). Roubini is a professor at NYU, studies asset and credit bubbles, and…

You're fresh out of college or code school, and you want to market your tech skills. How exactly do you get those first gigs? Here are some tips based on my experience in the field. Be honest about your capabilities. Some people will say "fake it till you make it" but that doesn't work for me and I'm no good at it anyway. I'd rather work with someone who knows their limitations than someone who thinks they know everything, and…

I decided to add a little spice to a web demo that happens to fall on Halloween. Thanks to Eric Grange over at DelphiTools, it was super easy. I updated his script slightly, to allow control over when the bats appear (and how many there are). You can include my js file directly, or download here, or clone from the github repo. To use it, follow these steps: First - Include the script in your header. This line uses my…

I've been involved with web-facing software development since 1998. I work primarily in the aviation industry with systems and software engineering, geospatial data, integration, prototyping, and analysis. My day-to-day work includes a variety of open source tools including NodeJS, Leaflet, jQuery, PostgreSQL, Geoserver. I spend a lot of time with languages such as java, javascript, and SQL. Problem spaces include integration of aviation new entrants (AAM, UAM, UAS), capacity & demand modeling, traffic flows, human factors, and communications. My full…