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Shortbread family recipe

Post author By admin
Post date April 12, 2022

Yes, you too can make shortbread.

This 5-ingredient recipe is considered delicate and time-consuming.

Ingredients:
1-lb.	454 g	Butter
1-tsp.	5 ml	Pure Vanilla Extract
1¼-Cup	285 ml	Fruit Sugar (no less)
5¾-cups	1.35 L	Cake and Pastry Flour
4-tbsp.	60 ml	Rice Flour

Tools:
A Large Mixing Bowl
  A Cookie Sheet
  A Large Spoon
  A Spatula
  A Sieve
  2-Cup Measuring Cup
  1-Cup Measuring Cup
  A Teaspoon
  A Tablespoon
  A Fork
  A Knife

Optional:
A glass of your favorite BEvERage

Let the butter warm to room temperature. If you normally wear a sweater, your room is not warm enough. Don’t even think of using the oven, microwave, or stovetop to warm the butter.

Preheat oven to 275°F (135°C).

Sift 1¼ cups (355 ml) of fruit sugar into 1 pound (454 g) of warm butter.

Use a large spoon to mix to the sugar and butter until the clumps become a well-blended paste. At this stage it is important to know that if you lick your fingers, you must wash and dry your hands immediately before proceeding.

Add 1 teaspoon (5 ml) of vanilla and blend well with a large spoon. Continue to sift in 4 tablespoons (60 ml) of rice flour.

½-cup at a time, sift in the 5¾ cups (1350 ml) of cake and pastry flour. Fold in with a spatula.

When your girly man arms are too weak to continue to fold with the spatula, use your fingers to break the clumps into pebbles. Continue to sift in the cake and pastry flour, ½-cup at a time. By the way, that’s pebbles, not sand. If it takes only 5 or 5½ cups (1200 to 1300 ml) to get to pebbles, then stop there.

Gather the pebbles into large clumps (but, I just…) and gently spread out onto cookie sheet using a large spoon. Use a fork to poke holes into the shortbread all the way to the bottom of the cookie sheet. The holes should be no less than ¼“ apart. Reduce oven to 200°F (95°C) and bake for 1 hour. Keep close watch or it will overcook like mine (Mmm, dog biscuits). Cut immediately into rectangles, and let cool.

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Measure with micrometer; mark with chalk; cut with axe

Post author By admin
Post date December 30, 2020

Programme development is often an inverted process. A lot of thought goes into research and design, while the actual coding is haphazard. This is why test driven development is so important.

I learned how to code the way I learned how to cook. I followed a recipe, then I improvised and checked the end result. I began coding by transcribing programs from Compute! magazine. This gave me typing skills, concentration, and attention to detail. Invariably I would make a typo and the code wouldn’t work or would behave differently than written in the article. After I got the programme working, I would modify the code to see what would happen. Unfortunately, this lead to bad habits including coding first, then adapting the design to match.

Computer courses in high school and university pretty much reinforced these bad habits by teaching the library of functions first, demonstrating their use, then testing how well they were learned. With the number of methods and attributes available in the libraries of class object, learning all of them is impractical. The first and only class that I took in university to invert this behaviour was a software engineering course which focused on the flow of data. Before any coding was done, before even choosing the language and hardware, the overall highest level black box system had to be designed. Then step by step, details would be added level by level until it was parsed out into several independent, interrelated objects, each of which could be coded, constructed, attached, or otherwise delegated. I have been using this approach to programming ever since.

It’s like when video game systems were built in the eighties that had a video screen, a joystick and buttons, and a coin slot. When the product was ported over to the home console, it didn’t work the same, probably because the whole thing had to be rewritten with the coin slot written out, the integrated joystick written out, the custom electronics written out, the video size and resolution was different. The design wasn’t thought out to include different architectures.

It wasn’t until recently that I stumbled upon test driven development, shortened to TDD. This was known when I went to university, but it wasn’t taught. I am pretty sure that the upperclassmen and professors that taught the courses knew about it, but whether they practiced it did not come out in how they taught the courses. But it would have helped with their assignments. A lot of my classmates dropped out of programming because of the length of time they had to spend on debugging their code. Those who dropped out early, mostly women, were smart to do so because of the bad habits that were reinforced by the teaching methodologies. Those that took only a few hours a week coding must have known some secret sauce that they learned before university. I suspect that TDD was that secret sauce.

TDD is a methodology of breaking your code before you write it, then fixing it. That is, you write a test that supports your design before you write the code that confirms the test in just three or four lines; ten is too many. Then you spend time modifying the code to make it faster, more general, and more legible. You could develop your system top down or bottom up, but in the end it takes less time because it takes less debugging. I could demonstrate by talking about a function that returns the square of a number, entering a test that takes the value of 2 then returns the value 4, and write a function that returns 4 no matter the input, then refactoring, BUT there are a lot of tutorials on the subject so I won’t bother.

So many projects are heavy on the design with not enough spent on the implementation. Project managers are very easy to please; they are satisfied by the very best. But programmers that don’t use TDD aren’t doing their very best. Mistakes creep in initially, then flood in when it’s handed off to another developer. If designers are measuring the project with a micrometer, we programmers better mark it with our sharpest pencil, rough it out with our sharpest chisels, test it with our best calipers, and sand it down with out best sandpaper with coarse to finer grit.

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Angular test project continues to deliver

Post author By admin
Post date December 17, 2020

Gary Simon @designcoursecom is another excellent online tutor. I followed his Angular PWA video and expanded the original Joke page to include 50% Dad jokes and 40% otherwise bad jokes. Gary Simon’s algorithm brings in jokes one at a time from a Chuck Norris RESTful API. I sought out more joke APIs and found two that I liked. One told corny dad-jokes. Another told really awfully bad jokes, but it comes with a filter. I selected the API to filter out not-safe-for-work, racist, and sexist jokes. Then I updated the heading to let me know if the PWA drew from the Chuck Norris Joke stack, the Dad Joke stack, or the Bad Joke stack.

Some of the so-called “Bad Jokes” weren’t all that bad, so I went back into it and just finished changing it up a little. I remembered that the joke API includes a “category” element that I could leverage. The categories were Miscellaneous, Programming, Dark, Pun, Spooky, and Christmas. So, if the category was Programming, Dark, Spooky, or Christmas, I just displayed that followed by “Joke”. But if the category was Pun, well “Pun Joke” is just redundant. If the category was Miscellaneous, I just reverted back to “Bad”.

When I tested that, I got a few spooky jokes in a row, meanwhile the radio was playing Christmas music. That gave me an idea. Now until Boxing Day, when the randomizer selects “Bad Jokes”, it will show Christmas jokes. When October rolls around and if the free host lets me keep it that long, the “Bad Jokes” will be filtered for spooky jokes and dark jokes.

Now, the joke page was built to test how to make a PWA, so I downloaded it to my phone. It still had the Angular icon, the shield with the capital A.

I didn’t want to look too far removed from the culture, but I wanted to personalise it. So, I kept the shield, changed the A to P, and now the app looks like a PWA, but one that I made.

So, let me know what you think. Remember to like and subscribe. Just kidding. There’s no subscribe button.

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Privacy Policy

Post author By admin
Post date September 26, 2018

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Philip Young – Cross Platform Developer

Post author By admin
Post date May 15, 2016

Hi. My name is Philip Young and I am a Cross Platform Developer.
I started programming 34 years ago. My first job was when I was 17. I was hired by the school to program a key tracker database on an Apple IIe. Back in those days, the entire system, including the operating system, program, and data, was kept on a 5¼ floppy disk that could hold less information than a single, cellphone photograph. And you try to tell that to kids these days, and they won’t believe you.
I have been into databases ever since.
I have worked on SCO Foxbase. I moved to dBase III, then Clipper. Access introduced me to SQL style queries. I leveraged that knowledge in Active Server Pages, PHP, and ColdFusion. I recently learned SQLite for Android.
I currently have a few projects on the back-burner, but I’m hungry for a project that pays the bills. I have a WordPress site (not this one) that I monitor for intrusions, an online accounting system to build in PHP, a music app to design and an engineering app to put together in Android, and my own website to update in the flavour of the day. I am looking into moving into C# and ASP.NET for my personal site.

If you want to see my resume, go here.