RayGervais

On Software Development I figured I’d open up this article with explaining a few of the domains that I work in, both professionally and as a hobby.

An Excerpt from the Life of a Software Delivery Team, and Whatever Ray’s Doing… In all seriousness, this is still a learning subject for yours truly.

Retrospective 2020 has been off to quite the unsettling start, between the wildfires that burn through Australia, the recent passing of Neil Peart and Kobe Bryant, World War III concerns being raised in much louder voices than a fearful whisper, etc.

An Overview of Migrating My Old Site Why Did I Switch I’ve been working with Gridsome and VueJS for a few hobby projects throughout 2019, and was quite impressed with what JAMstacks offered.

A Lesson on Testing Since joining my current employer, I’ve found myself working with Ruby programs more often so than other scripting languages.

Warning: I have no clue what I’m doing, but it seemed pretty enticing after months of playing around.

Adding Styling to a Simple VueJS Application After completing the two hour VueJS crash course, I felt the wanting to extend the functionality to include an edit, and details view.

An introduction to why I’ve written “Sort through X” on my daily to do lists as of recent!

Lessons 1-3 For 2019, one of my goals was to complete the Google/Udacity Kotlin for Android Development course.

Lessons This past year has been full of lessons, just as every year before; an expected constant which I think is important to reflect upon just around the end to identify growth, ambitions and also sway between where life is taking you, and which steps y…

Some Thoughts from a former WordPress User As a developer, I find a lot of the ‘magical’ moments occurring from discovering new technology, platforms and applications which challenge the norm, or go beyond the tried and true to carve a path both familiar…

Hosted by GoDaddy, Leveraging Let’s Encrypt and ZeroSSL At the start of 2018, Google made a major push to rank and direct users to HTTPS websites in effort to be more web-safe; a fantastic way to push for such security onto as many websites as possible, a…

From a Developer’s Perspective “NodeJS and Windows don’t work well.”

So, this blog post has been long overdue.

A few weeks ago, I went with my friend Svitlana to view Frame by Frame, a ballet which paid homage to filmmaker and animator Norman McLaren.

Moving both Physically, and Mentally to New Places If you hadn’t followed my Twitter account (which you should, this shameless plug advocates for not any thought provoking posts or new insights, but more-less the mediocrity of the everyday developer such…

After The First Week Was Completed Wow, how quickly two weeks are passing by while you’re busy enjoying every hour you can with code, technology, people, and for once, the weather.

The day has finally come, the start of the much discussed 100 days of code!

An OSD700 Contribution Update So here we are, potentially the last contribution to occur for OSD700 from this developer before the semester ends and marks are finalized.

A OSD700 Contribution Post For the final release, one of the issues I wanted to focus on was this, which I figured would be an easy contribution toward the project and a check off of my final release requirements.

It’s hard to believe how quickly this semester has come to a close.

Or, How to Break Every Travis Build Your Commit Creates!

An OSD Contribution Update - Part 1 Getting Onboard Documentation is a topic that often splits developers into two or more camps, those who write and those who don’t; an irony since both camps rely heavily on documentation with external libraries to utili…

This is a follow up to my previous post, describing some examples and public issues which touch upon heading semantics and color contrast.

Introduction & Screen Readers Accessibility is one topic which not many take into account when designing and developing an application, website, or printed media even.

An OSD Contribution Update – Part 2 Getting up to Speed in the Late Hours In my previous post, I went through a retelling of anguish, environmental issues and dead ends while trying to evaluate how a bug such as this was possible.

An OSD Contribution Update - Part 1 While working towards implementing a fix for thisbug, it was made clear to me that the bug was a regression, and not evident two months or so ago.

When I first started contributing what I could to Visual Studio Code, I was under the impression that it was written using React.

An OSD700 Lesson Retrospective The one thing that Humphrey said which really resonates with me on the topic of bug fixing is summed up as this, “[on bugs] they’re easier to understand since the code foundations have already been laid out before you, all y…

An OSD Contribution Update For the last three years, I’ve grown a passion for extending technologies towards a direction which makes them more accessible for a wider range of users.

I love Bulma, I love contributing to projects instead of spinning up my shoddy implementation of a need, and I love when the two come together in such harmony it’s as if fate meant it.

An OSD700 Contribution Update Interesting concept, it’s a very surreal experience to explore and work on a project while using said project as the tool for development and exploration.

On MacOS High Sierra Building Visual Studio Code is quite the interesting process, mostly because the dependencies differ in obtainability between operating systems.

Introduction I’ve been a major fan of Bulma ever since discovering it through the weekend project of developer Hassan Djirdeh (@djirdehh), https://www.cryptovue.com.

I’m still a fan of the pen and ink; the older communicative and storage mediums which fueled yesterday’s greatest histories and paved the way to 99% of the populace flocking to word processors.

When I was in Highschool, I remember spending every moment I could on XDA, Reddit, and various other Android tweak-centric mediums; emulating such tweaks and ‘optimizations’ on my device during breaks.

Visual Studio Code has quickly become my go-to text editor for many languages, even replacing XCode for Swift-centric programs or IntelliJ for light-weight Java programming.

Hello there!

This little article has the minimal amount of relevance relating back to software development, but instead a recounting of how I’ve had the an opportunity to become friends with two individuals who are utterly changing my world from a musical perspective.

Wow.

Since May, I’ve had the unique experience of working with MEAN stacks on a daily basis, each varying in complexity and architecture to reflect a different end goal.

Recently, I came across a review conducted by It’s FOSS which described a new open source project aimed at improving the experience of note taking for developers.

A Code Review Summary for SPO600 For the final project of the Software Portability Course, the class was tasked with reviewing the code of a peer who’d set up a pull request for Chris’ GLIBC repository.

A OSD600 Contribution Overview This post will be one of my last related to this semester, specifically to OSD600 which has seen the class learning quite a bit about Open Source web technologies; contributing to Mozilla’s Thimble in doing so.

An SPO600 Project Update & Admittance to Failure Part 2 In my previous blog post, I dissected the first half of the SHA512.c implementation found in the GNU Standard C Library.

A Quick Overview as the semester draws to a close.

An SPO600 Project Update & Admittance to Failure Part 1 Introduction This series of posts includes not just my admittance to failure, unable to optimize a previously selected function, but also how I learned from said failure in regards to style, logic, a…

An OSD600 Exercise Heroku This week, the class was introduced to Heroku, which is described as, “a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud”.

An OSD600 Contribution Update This short article will elaborate recent developments to the Thimble developer console that I’ve been implementing, with the previous progress post located here.

A common theme in the SPO600 course, is the need for software which originally was written for x86_64 to be ported over to AArch64 chipsets.