Hi, I’m Josh.
Software engineer interested in distributed systems and big data. I write here about the things I build and learn along the way.
Writing
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Emailing Google Spreadsheet Grades
I am a teaching assistant for a friend this year, and the hassle of how to send out grades has been a small challenge for me. Last year the class was
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Senior Thesis
For our senior thesis, my team is working determining the readability of colored text. My job has been to create the web app that is used to store our images, collect results
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Error Tolerance
I can't count the number of times that I have had trouble with my computer. Often a friend will say something like "Aren't you a programmer; if you know how computers work,"
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Displaying a S3 Bucket as Nested Directories in Rails
The component of the app I am currently working on for WCAI, researchers need to be able to download data files. Many of these files are more
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Beginning the Project
Many great web frameworks exist; for this project I chose Ruby on Rails. Since the framework is so popular, gems (extensions) exist that will greatly simplify much of the
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Storing Analytics Data on AWS
Recently The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative began looking into ways to store research projects online. I did some research for them to determine the options for using AWS versus in-house
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