Whenever I was programming in Rust with OpenCV and using the inrange() function to mask out red for seeing red LEDs in the purview, I was struggling with what exact format to use for the arguments for the upper bound and lowerbound of color. I was using images taken from a simple WebCam attached to a Raspberry Pi. No one was really...
There are many different kinds of software and how it is built and why, graphics programming, mathematical computation, artificial intelligence, big data, systems programming, games programming, just to name a few. But, the one I have been involved with for the past four years has been mostly business programming. I had been a coder for a long time before this. I thought...
You would think such a simple feature with HTML would not cause much trouble, but I have a different story after trying to correct a mysterious bug on a web app was I was working on. On an ASP.NET Core project, I was building a registration system for new users to the application. Everything was fine and dandy until I clicked...
It has been a while since I dedicated myself to my projects. I had been working on the Baby Monitor project with a friend. It was his idea, and he was driving it. That is why I only got so far with it. I was able to take pictures with the web cam and filter out all the red with OpenCV and...
As I move through my career, there are a few guidelines I have summarized for how I should write software: 1. Make it work 2. Do it correctly so that it is: 1. Testable 2. Maintainable 3. Use the right tools But, what is it about using the right tools? I have gotten consistently confused growing up in this job about all...