What Programming Tutorials Do You Want To See?

I’ve been blogging and making programming tutorials for about a year now and have gathered quite a following. You can see the statistics of my first year blogging in a post I recently published.

With this following came a lot of topic suggestions and requests. Some of these came through Twitter, some came through the comments section of other posts I’ve done, and some came through various forum boards. If you’ve been keeping up with me, you’ll know I hate requests that are made through the comments of other posts I’ve done because I like to keep those posts on topic for future readers and not get mangled with side topics.

With that said, I’d like to make this thread an outlet to make requests for future posts.

My First Year Of Blogging And The Stats Around It

One year ago from today, I started this code blog. I set off to help people with niche topics that I myself banged my head when trying to solve.

Through the months, I’ve gotten more traffic, followers, comments, and even job offers. Here are the stats to reflect my journey as a blogger.

Ending My Adventure At UC Merced And Starting Fresh

Back in 2010 I was hired by the University of California, Merced (UC Merced) after having first worked as a student employee for two years prior.

I was hired as part of the Student Information Systems (SIS) team of IT. Although my responsibilities spanned across all departments, I primarily supported the needs of the Undergraduate Admissions department.

I designed, developed, and supported many of the applications to address the growing needs of the department. These applications stretched from simple information management systems to complex automatic review processing systems using a variety of programming languages such as Java, ColdFusion, PLSQL, and Shell.

Manually Update Your Nexus Device To Android 5.0 Lollipop

So Google’s big Android 5.0 release is finally here after a week of delays. Android 5.0 Lollipop is now officially rolling out to the Nexus line devices. However, the roll-out is in batches so it could be as long as three weeks before you get your over-the-air (OTA) update.

If you’re impatient like I am, you’re going to want to manually install the update rather than wait for it to show up in a device update.

The following will get a factory Android 5.0 Lollipop image installed on your Nexus device in minutes.