Part #2 of the GraphQL Patterns Series — GraphQL offers a lot of flexibility but it also comes with its challenges. The two main challenges are how do we secure the API and the infamous query depth question. In this article I want to present the patterns you can use to secure your API and am dividing the…

Part #1 of the GraphQL Patterns Series — I have been working with GraphQL for the past three years now. Noticing that there is a shortage of guideliness and patterns I decided to start this series of articles to describe the patterns I am using in my own GraphQL based efforts. Today I will be focusing on file…

This is my second article regarding the bioinformatics field where we take a genetic sequence and present it as a chaos game representation graph. With these series of articles I am hoping I can get more people excited about bioinformatics. Chaos Game Representation is a graphical representation of a sequence…

This is a story I have written a while back while I was still doing some Bioinformatics related work. Nowadays this is a field that is constantly growing and evolving so keeping up with it if you’re not part of this world is quite a time consuming task. I am…

People that use free WordPress plugins tend to think that they can get a free web developer too. — About seven years ago I started blogging. I was using a self-hosted WordPress blog and as the site had grown, the need for using more and more plugins arose. Fortunately, WordPress has a large plugin database that is supported by enthusiastic developers. What I did not know at the time…

I have often wondered about calculating time complexities. There was always enough theory but never enough practical examples that connected to the theory I was listening to in my Algorithm classes. One of the fields where I was stuck was calculating the time complexity of recursive algorithms. Sure, you know…