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My Activity Report For 2016

December 28, 2016 Nic Raboy

It has been a long year being an advocate of technology and I thought it would be a good idea to share everything that has happened to The Polyglot Developer and all of its networks.

Last year, in 2015, I started a tradition of sharing my WordPress, YouTube, and course statistics. We are approaching the end of the year and it is that time again.

Below you’ll find statistics that may help you if you’re planning on creating a blog or developing a course. It will give you an idea of costs and what to expect.

Samsung Gear Fit 2 Review

December 27, 2016 Nic Raboy

Over the past few years I’ve become dependent on wearable technology, a compliment to my smart phones. For the past year I’ve been using a Pebble Time smartwatch, but since Pebble recently sold out to Fitbit and shutdown shop, I was left looking for a replacement to my soon to be disabled smartwatch. This lead me to the Samsung Gear Fit 2 smart device.

There were certain criteria that had to be met, in my mind, in order to find an acceptable replacement to the Pebble that I knew and loved. I’m going to evaluate the Gear Fit 2 and see how it stacks up to comparable devices that exist.

Install A Better Custom ROM On The Amazon Kindle Fire

May 13, 2016 Nic Raboy

As some of you may know, I travel a lot. I am always on a plane without internet and not much to do. Up until now I’ve been using my iPad for watching the few movies I purchased from Google Play because Google Play lets you watch offline. The problem with this is my iPad doesn’t have a lot of storage space and can’t keep me entertained on a six or more hour flight. I heard Amazon Prime members can download movies for free and I saw that Amazon Kindle Fire tablets were only $40.00 with an expandable SD card slot.

I purchased one of these $40.00 tablets and a large micro SD card with the intention of downloading a bunch of movies as part of my Prime subscription. The problem is that my Prime subscription was part of a household account, which has fine print that says I can only stream, not download. This rendered the Kindle Fire tablet rather useless to me.

This lead me down the path of wanting to root the tablet and install a custom ROM to it. These are the things I did to turn my $40.00 disappointing Kindle Fire tablet into something comparable to the $200.00 tablets in circulation.

Take A Minute To Follow Me On Social Media

April 29, 2016 Nic Raboy

You may or may not know it, but I am very active on various social media outlets as well as this developer blog. Since I don’t give out my email address, social media is a great way to communicate with me if the comments section of this blog isn’t relevant.

I want this to be an opportunity for all my subscribers to take a moment to follow me on social media if they are not already. I’ll explain why this is a good idea after listing the channels that I’m a part of.

The Developer Community Gives Back

April 8, 2016 Nic Raboy

I’ve been writing developer related content for a few years now, most of which I distribute for free. Sure I have some donation requests around this blog, but I never demand any and I try not to force it on you. I enjoy helping the developer community, and more, I enjoy creating a healthy developer community that helps each other.

This is a short story on how the developer community that I created, heard my request for help, and offered to lend me their skills.

Plagiarism Among Programming Blogs And How To Resolve

January 23, 2016 Nic Raboy

With the success of my blog over the years, it was only time before people started plagiarizing my content. Plagiarism is a nasty thing and it really hurts the people who put time and effort into the content that they produce. In case you’re unfamiliar with what plagiarism is, it can be defined as below:

Plagiarism via Google Dictionary:

The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.

I’m going to share some examples on how my content was plagiarized and what can be done to help eliminate the problem if it is found.

My Activity Report For 2015

December 20, 2015 Nic Raboy

Earlier this year (July), I wrote about my first year of blogging and the stats around it and I feel it was important because it was my first year.

This time I’m going to write about my activity in 2015 and report the stats around it. The plan is to do this every year and possibly inspire other developers to start blogs of their own.