Mostly Facebook for people pretending that their job makes a difference. I'm not judging, I'm on there too. It works, I'm not happy about it, but it works.
Personal Projects
A small sample of some of the stuff I like to work on outside of my job
LiDAR Aquisition flight lines and captured data
With the exception of some fairly basic scripting/automation,
this was the first actual project I ever really took on, and boy oh boy, did I hugely underestimate the complexity of this seemingly simple task.
When beginning this project I had the idea that I could use a pre-existing script that I had written in Python to turn raw flight log data into a KML that
would visually display the logged data, including flight line run numbers, altitude etc. Then, I would show this data on a map in a web interface that could
filter/search different days, aircraft and LiDAR sensors. It was mostly just a little database and text parsing, should be easy enough, right? Lol. I had little
idea of what I was getting myself into. But holy moly, I learned a lot!!
I made my very first post to StackOverflow –
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54319492/mapping-project-i-want-to-show-kml-files-on-a-map-and-be-able-to-sort-them-bas/54327412#54327412
and I awaited advice from the programming gods to point me in the right direction. A MASSIVE shout out to user https://stackoverflow.com/users/1892308/istopopoki
who took the time to write a very informative post and gave some ‘getting started’ advice. The post had one key piece of text that kept me glued to my
computer whilst I learned what I needed to to make this work.
Link - coming soon
Adventure dirt-bike tracker
This one felt a little ambitious at first, but after a bit of research
and study, I think I've got it nailed. Now I just have to complete it!This project will contain a few moving parts, an Android app, some Azure app services and some Azure table storage. This will be presented on a front-end website where my wife can track my position and see that I am not dead. Rad.