AlexDGlover

Arduino Project 7: Buzzword

August 23, 2015 - Categories: Electronics Projects,How-to Guides

3 minute read

A “Catch Phrase” clone I built with an Arduino and TFT Touch Screen

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Arduino Project 6: Unlock it with Fire

July 12, 2015 - Categories: Electronics Projects,How-to Guides

5 minute read

A lock box that can only be opened with a different kind of key

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Share Your Salary App Part 3

February 23, 2015 - Categories: IT/Software Projects,How-to Guides

18 minute read

So in Part 1 we built the core classes for our app and we exposed those classes as a RESTful web service in Part 2. Now, we'll build a UI and wrap up the project.

Feel free to check out the application first or pull up the source in another window.

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Share Your Salary App Part 2

January 29, 2015 - Categories: IT/Software Projects,How-to Guides

6 minute read

In Part 1, I covered the core classes for the Share Your Salary application. These classes covered my Model and Controllers in my quasi-MVC application. Now we're ready to expose those controller functions via a RESTful API.

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Share Your Salary App Part 1

January 23, 2015 - Categories: IT/Software Projects,How-to Guides

7 minute read

In a previous project, I built "Who's that person in that thing?," a JavaScript web app that called The Movie DB's API to find common actors given two movies. That was fun, but I still wanted to build an API service myself and I wanted to experiment with some new tools. But first I needed a project idea as an excuse to use them.

Project Idea/Application Premise/The Excuse

People are funny about money, especially about their salary. With most people, it's a taboo to talk about it. But everyone's been curious at some point to know how they compare to their peers. Some people fear they are getting paid less to do the same work as others, and sometimes that fear is founded in fact. The "Share Your Salary" app is an anonymous salary survey tool to address these kinds of use cases.

Before we get into any of the tools or how-to, feel free to check out the application first or look over the source.

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