Erik W

Software engineer and researcher specializing in software architecture, database design and development, testing, and methodologies.

Houston, TX Joined on Jul 31, 2019 erik@erikwhiting.com https://erikscode.space

Education

BS in Computer Information Systems; MS in Software Engineering

Work

Software Engineer

Erik W

Sep 28

Improving Browser Automation Tests: How to Add Microsoft Edge and Edgedriver to Linux CI Systems

#ci #hacktoberfest #testing

5 min read

Let's Hide a Secret Message in an Image with Python and OpenCV

oh my gosh! I can't believe I missed that. Thanks for catchin...

Nov 21

Does coding become less fun when its a job?

I find that my side projects get more fun every 6 or so month...

Sep 28

5 Great Programming Books Rarely Mentioned in "Great Programming Books" Articles

Thanks for the suggestion, I've been meaning to freshen up on...

Sep 17

Stop Worrying About Which Programming Language to Learn First

Interesting take, I'd never considered the learner's own conf...

Jul 19

Find in Capybara

Hey, I have been googling stuff for last hour trying to find ...

May 28

Sexism, Racism, Toxic Positivity, and TailwindCSS

Thanks for writing this; given everything you've seen from th...

May 8

What was the hardest concept for you to grasp when learning Object-Oriented Programming?

cool, I had no idea

Apr 26

How to make GitHub more Productive?

I didn't know these tricks, nice article!

Apr 25

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Jul 10

Professional Version Control with Git: Pt 3 – Rebase and Bisect

#bisect #git #rebase

12 min read

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Jul 10

Professional Version Control with Git: Pt 2 - Collaboration

#cicd #git

12 min read

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Jul 10

Professional Version Control with Git: Pt 1 - The Basics

#git #svc #cicd

19 min read

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Apr 21

What was the hardest concept for you to grasp when learning Object-Oriented Programming?

#discuss #watercooler #oop

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Apr 21

What off-the-beaten-path CI/CD Tools Do You Like?

#discuss #devops

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Apr 16

Python Palindromes: an Exhaustive Tutorial

#python #tutorial

4 min read

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Apr 7

Three Things I Learned from Moonlighting as a Software Engineering Consultant

#career

4 min read

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Mar 2

5 Things I Wish Someone Told me when I Started my Career

#career #firstyearincode

3 min read

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Aug 6 '20

Implementing the Decorator Pattern in Python

#python #tutorial

7 min read

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Aug 4 '20

Do You Use Python For Anything Besides Data Science?

#discuss #python

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Apr 24 '20

Stop Worrying About Which Programming Language to Learn First

#beginners

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Apr 14 '20

Why You Shouldn't Learn C

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Apr 13 '20

Install Browsers and Webdrivers in TravisCI

#testing #travisci #cicd #devops

5 min read

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Nov 30 '19

5 Great Programming Books Rarely Mentioned in "Great Programming Books" Articles

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Nov 22 '19

Liskov Substitution Principle in 3 Minutes

#java #oop

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Nov 10 '19

Designing Public Interfaces the Right Way

#csharp #oop

11 min read

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Oct 5 '19

Going the College Route? Some Encouragement from a Career Switcher

#career

5 min read

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Oct 1 '19

An (almost) Shameless Plug for my Beginner Friendly Project for #Hacktoberfest

#python #testing #hacktoberfest #contributorswanted

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Sep 27 '19

Getting Started With Browser Automation Testing in Python

#python #tutorial #testing

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13 min read

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Sep 14 '19

How To Work With Memory Optimized Objects in SQL Server

#database #sql #sqlserver

6 min read

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Sep 9 '19

Find the nth Sequence of a Fibonacci Sum

#python #tutorial

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Sep 3 '19

Calculate Derivative Functions in Python

#python #tutorial #math

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Aug 30 '19

Let's Hide a Secret Message in an Image with Python and OpenCV

#python #tutorial #steganography

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7 min read

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Aug 27 '19

Tragically Underrated Soft Skill: Requirements Management

#career #productivity

9 min read

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Aug 24 '19

Passing Functions as Parameters in JavaScript

#javascript #functional #tutorial

3 min read

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Aug 22 '19

Decided to Change Careers 5 years ago: What I'd do differently now

#career #firstyearincode

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4 min read

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Aug 21 '19

Ruby Gem rest-client 1.6 compromised

#ruby #rails #security

1 min read

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Aug 20 '19

C Pointers 101: part 3, Pointer Arithmetic

#c #computerscience

3 min read

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Aug 20 '19

C Pointers 101: part 2, passing pointers to functions

#c #computerscience

3 min read

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Aug 20 '19

C Pointers 101: part 1, a gentle introduction

#c #computerscience

4 min read

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Aug 16 '19

Simple SQL Tutorial: How to Pivot

#sql #tutorial

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Aug 9 '19

Observer Design Pattern tutorial in JavaScript + Fun With a Language API

#javascript #tutorial #designpatterns

9 min read

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Aug 4 '19

How to Use C Functions in Python

#c #python

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