Bill Martin

About

By day, I research, prototype, and advocate for emerging technologies on an innovation team as a senior software engineer at Raymond James.

By night, I write & record music, read fantasy, sci-fi, & programming books, lurk stock & software subreddits, and raise a duo of valkyrie daughters ;)

I live in Concord, NH.

Interests as of Late

Now:

Post Quantum
Flask
Angular

Soon:

Lean IT
Prompt Engineering
Sagemaker

Later:

Crypto threats
Innovation strategies
Flutter

Latest Posts

Python for PHP Developers: Deep Dive Part 3

What is it like moving from PHP to Python? Part 3 explores Python’s conditional operators and loops.

Python for PHP Developers: Deep Dive Part 2

What is it like moving from PHP to Python? Part 2 explores Python’s float, string, and list operators and operations.

Python for PHP Developers: Deep Dive Part 1

What is it like moving from PHP to Python? What are the similarities and differences between them?

How to Build and Deploy a Node.js, Express, and MySQL API to GCP

Let’s build a Node.js + Express API from scratch, connect Cloud SQL for MySQL, and deploy it all to Google Cloud using gcloud CLI.

Configure Laravel to Use PostgreSQL with Homestead

I was building a Laravel app in Homestead, with MySQL. I later decided to use PostgreSQL. This took a bit longer than expected.

The Evolution of Me as a Developer

This is the quasi-comical looking back of my adventurous history as a web developer, my goofs, my successes, my failures, my hopes.

The World is Mine for the Reading

We need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ― Philip Pullman

Why Software Development is Rewarding

We play God when we run our code, breathing life into its lungs, with its own little Big Bang at execution time, exploding into existence.

Usability in Three Minutes

“Don’t Make Me Think” is a classic book on web usability. This is what I learned from the book, reduced down to a three minute read.

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