Dan Petrow, Sometimes Software Engineer

Latest Posts

• Build A Simple Django Application

  In this tutorial we will build a simple web app to visualize stock data using Python (Django), Javascript, and the Alpha Vantage API. What we are going to visualize is Simple Moving Average, Daily Close, and Daily Adjusted Close for a given stock.

• How to compile a c++ program

  After learning python learning a compiled language like C++ seemed both intimidating and unneeded. However the more I’ve learned about programming the more value I can see in removing as much abstraction as possible and getting closer to machine code. I found a C++ program that I wanted to use but I didn’t find much in the way of documentation for how to compile the code into a usable program for Windows. Here is what I learned about how to compile some C++ code into an exe for Windows.

• Is it worth publishing

  I’ve written many things that looking back were low quality or didn’t stand up over time. Therefore I believe it is important to formalize the criteria for which I decide a post is worthy of being published.

• How To Clean Ruby Install

  Yesterday I sent about four hours trying to figure out why Jekyll wouldn’t run. Here is what I learned for next time.

• Git Commands Worth Remembering

  Today I used Git again. I made quite a few mistakes already with git that caused my remote branches and my local branches to be in a bad state. Luckily, I created remote and local staging branches and managed to keep in tact.