Brad BloomfieldAWS have developed awswrangler for pandas, numpy and a few others.Jul 4, 20221Jul 4, 20221
Brad BloomfieldAdventures in Amazon Event Bridge with CDKFor over 10 years I have been interested in service oriented and event driven architectures. These patterns focus on the messaging between…Jun 8, 2022Jun 8, 2022
Brad BloomfieldStress testing Git SHA256 with 5.6 Million commitsGit is popular and for good reason. It performs very well and is well supported. Recently the good folks who develop Git have released…May 23, 2022May 23, 2022
Brad BloomfieldDon’t confuse Bitwise and Logical operatorsI was troubleshooting some PHP code a little while ago and something bugged me about this code. It worked as intended but the expression…Sep 14, 2020Sep 14, 2020
Brad BloomfieldElectricity — Time of use in VictoriaSince the introduction of smart metering, a question that I have always had is, ‘am I financially better off with a single rate tariff or…Aug 26, 2020Aug 26, 2020
Brad BloomfieldRevisiting bitwise operators postWhen I wrote the article about bitwise operators I knew that there as a simpler method of converting an 8 character hex string (4 bytes)…Aug 24, 2020Aug 24, 2020
Brad BloomfieldInterviewing Candidates for fundamental technical knowledgeInterviewing web developers and testing for more than superficial knowledge of conceptsFeb 20, 2020Feb 20, 2020
Brad BloomfieldDoes anyone use bitwise operators anymore?Often when interviewing developers I have been asking them to implement a routine to decode 4 bytes in IEEE floating point notation into a…Jul 3, 2019Jul 3, 2019
Brad BloomfieldMaking Excel able to convert timezonesA few months ago at work I had the need to make Excel able to support converting a date and time into another timezone. So I did some…Sep 7, 2017Sep 7, 2017
Brad BloomfieldGenerating a random password in RobotframeworkI had need to also create a random password. Our systems allow pretty much all ASCII characters so thought I’d make something to generate…Aug 29, 2016Aug 29, 2016
