<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Cody A. Ray</title><description>Engineering, Finance, and Life</description><link>https://codyaray.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Reduce Taxes with Private Investments?</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2026/02/reduce-taxes-with-private-investments/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2026/02/reduce-taxes-with-private-investments/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:28:14 GMT</pubDate><category>personal-finance</category></item><item><title>Convert Average Annual Return (AAR) to Compound Return (CAGR)</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2023/10/convert-average-annual-return-aar-to-compound-return-cagr/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2023/10/convert-average-annual-return-aar-to-compound-return-cagr/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 12:19:44 GMT</pubDate><category>real-estate</category></item><item><title>Secrets, URLs, and Logging, Oh My!</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2022/11/secrets-urls-and-logging-oh-my/</link><guid 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Growth</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2020/09/engineering-growth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2020/09/engineering-growth/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2020 22:15:51 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>The Relationship Between Marketing, Retention, and Income</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2020/08/marketing-retention-and-income/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2020/08/marketing-retention-and-income/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:06:23 GMT</pubDate><category>personal-finance</category></item><item><title>Preventing CSRF attacks on a Single Page App with REST API</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2020/08/vulnerable-csrf-attacks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2020/08/vulnerable-csrf-attacks/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2020 14:15:43 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>CLI Design Best Practices</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2020/07/cli-design-best-practices/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2020/07/cli-design-best-practices/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:34:04 GMT</pubDate><category>tech-reference</category></item><item><title>Salary Growth vs Earnings Growth, or Why the Wealthy are Entrepreneurs</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2020/07/salary-growth-vs-earnings-growth-or-why-the-wealthy-are-entrepreneurs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2020/07/salary-growth-vs-earnings-growth-or-why-the-wealthy-are-entrepreneurs/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:52:40 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>House Hacking: A Real Life Example</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2020/04/house-hacking-a-real-life-example/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2020/04/house-hacking-a-real-life-example/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 20:58:03 GMT</pubDate><category>real-estate</category></item><item><title>Quick Tip: Install hub for GitHub on Ubuntu</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2019/04/quick-tip-install-hub-for-github-on-ubuntu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2019/04/quick-tip-install-hub-for-github-on-ubuntu/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2019 11:08:53 GMT</pubDate><category>tech-reference</category></item><item><title>Handling Extra Income When Pursuing Financial Independence</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2018/11/extra-income-in-fi-household/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2018/11/extra-income-in-fi-household/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:48:39 GMT</pubDate><category>personal-finance</category></item><item><title>Quick Tip: Extract Data from Highcharts</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2018/09/quick-tip-extract-data-from-highcharts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2018/09/quick-tip-extract-data-from-highcharts/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:08:43 GMT</pubDate><category>tech-reference</category></item><item><title>The New 2018 Tax Law and You</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2018/01/the-new-2018-tax-law-and-you/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2018/01/the-new-2018-tax-law-and-you/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:31:24 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category><category>personal-finance</category></item><item><title>Personal Capital&apos;s Tactical Weighting Approach</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2017/11/personal-capitals-tactical-weighting-approach/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2017/11/personal-capitals-tactical-weighting-approach/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:43:04 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category><category>personal-finance</category></item><item><title>Fastest way to un-cap a MongoDB capped collection</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2017/03/fastest-way-to-un-cap-a-mongodb-capped-collection/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2017/03/fastest-way-to-un-cap-a-mongodb-capped-collection/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2017 09:31:46 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Restricting uploads to public PyPI</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2017/02/restricting-uploads-to-public-pypi/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2017/02/restricting-uploads-to-public-pypi/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2017 10:07:11 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>AWS User Policy for Single S3 Bucket</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2017/01/aws-user-policy-for-single-s3-bucket/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2017/01/aws-user-policy-for-single-s3-bucket/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:53:20 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>How To See A Process&apos;s Environment in Linux</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2017/01/how-to-see-a-processs-environment-in-linux/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2017/01/how-to-see-a-processs-environment-in-linux/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2017 12:19:33 GMT</pubDate><category>tech-reference</category></item><item><title>How Much Does Tax Deferral Save You?</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2016/12/how-much-does-tax-deferral-save-you/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2016/12/how-much-does-tax-deferral-save-you/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2016 23:19:54 GMT</pubDate><category>personal-finance</category></item><item><title>Life Insurance for the Financial Independence Crowd</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2016/11/life-insurance-for-the-financial-independence-crowd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2016/11/life-insurance-for-the-financial-independence-crowd/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2016 16:36:08 GMT</pubDate><category>personal-finance</category></item><item><title>Mapping SinceDB Files to Logstash File Input</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2016/10/mapping-sincedb-files-to-logstash-file-input/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2016/10/mapping-sincedb-files-to-logstash-file-input/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:53:06 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Free StatusPage Hosted On Github &amp; Amazon</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2016/09/free-statuspage-hosted-on-github-amazon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2016/09/free-statuspage-hosted-on-github-amazon/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2016 05:38:53 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Building Logstash Pipelines using @metadata</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2016/03/building-logstash-pipelines-using-metadata/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2016/03/building-logstash-pipelines-using-metadata/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:26:27 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>How To Ingest App Metrics from Slack into Elasticsearch</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2016/02/how-to-ingest-app-metrics-from-slack-into-elasticsearch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2016/02/how-to-ingest-app-metrics-from-slack-into-elasticsearch/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:40:05 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Guide to the Southwest Companion Pass</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2016/01/guide-to-the-southwest-companion-pass/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2016/01/guide-to-the-southwest-companion-pass/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:13:33 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category><category>personal-finance</category></item><item><title>12 Factor Microservices on Docker</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2015/07/12-factor-microservices-on-docker/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2015/07/12-factor-microservices-on-docker/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2015 17:18:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Auto-Load Jinja2 Macros</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2015/05/auto-load-jinja2-macros/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2015/05/auto-load-jinja2-macros/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2015 01:32:14 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Calculating Cash at Closing</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2015/05/calculating-cash-at-closing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2015/05/calculating-cash-at-closing/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2015 02:23:19 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category><category>real-estate</category></item><item><title>Analyzing Investment Real Estate</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2015/04/analyzing-investment-real-estate/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2015/04/analyzing-investment-real-estate/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:53:27 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category><category>real-estate</category></item><item><title>Using an Infrastructure Manifest for Automation (Part 2)</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2014/12/using-an-infrastructure-manifest-for-automation-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2014/12/using-an-infrastructure-manifest-for-automation-part-2/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:37:06 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Simplify Deployment with Infrastructure Manifest (Part 1)</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2014/11/simplify-deployment-with-infrastructure-manifest/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2014/11/simplify-deployment-with-infrastructure-manifest/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:56:02 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Mongo Multi-Key Index Performance</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2014/11/mongo-multi-key-index-performance/</link><guid 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Greens? Lock &apos;em Out!</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2014/11/libertarians-greens-lock-em-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2014/11/libertarians-greens-lock-em-out/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:24:44 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>Keep Out The Vote</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2014/11/keep-out-the-vote/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2014/11/keep-out-the-vote/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 21:55:46 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>Custom JMeter Samplers and Config Elements</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2014/07/custom-jmeter-samplers-and-config-elements/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2014/07/custom-jmeter-samplers-and-config-elements/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2014 21:14:52 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Building a Scalable Distributed Stats Infrastructure with Storm and KairosDB</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2014/05/building-a-scalable-distributed-stats-infrastructure-with-storm-and-kairosdb/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2014/05/building-a-scalable-distributed-stats-infrastructure-with-storm-and-kairosdb/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 22:40:02 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Should I max out my 401(k) or pay down student loans?</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2014/04/should-i-max-out-my-401k-or-pay-down-student-loans/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2014/04/should-i-max-out-my-401k-or-pay-down-student-loans/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:00:36 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category><category>personal-finance</category></item><item><title>Hacking Twitter Competitions: Automatically Tracking Followers Count</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2014/01/hacking-twitter-competitions-automatically-tracking-followers-count/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2014/01/hacking-twitter-competitions-automatically-tracking-followers-count/</guid><description>Just before Christmas, a Chicago Food Truck decided to give away free sandwiches for a year to their 1000th Twitter follower.
You know I had to try.
After checking it a few times over a 15 minute period or so, I noticed that the follower count was increasing very slowly. I knew I wouldn&apos;t have the diligence to continue checking, so I decided to write a script that would do the check and notify me every ten minutes or so. Since I&apos;m on a Mac, I decided to use Growl for these notifications.
In this post, I&apos;ll walk you through how to automatically check a Twitter user&apos;s follower count and get a Growl notification periodically.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2014 13:22:55 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Add to Goodreads from Amazon</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/12/add-to-goodreads-from-amazon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/12/add-to-goodreads-from-amazon/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2013 15:18:47 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Dependency Injection in Sinatra</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/11/dependency-injection-in-sinatra/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/11/dependency-injection-in-sinatra/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:15:57 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Book Sprint Interview</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/10/book-sprint-interview/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/10/book-sprint-interview/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:14:36 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category></item><item><title>First Book: Developing an iOS 7 Edge</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/10/first-book-developing-an-ios-7-edge/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/10/first-book-developing-an-ios-7-edge/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:53:31 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category></item><item><title>Lesson Learned: Circuit Breakers</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/06/lesson-learned-circuit-breakers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/06/lesson-learned-circuit-breakers/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 10:23:05 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Greenfoot: Teaching Java to 5th Graders</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/06/greenfoot-teaching-java-to-5th-graders/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/06/greenfoot-teaching-java-to-5th-graders/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:59:49 GMT</pubDate><category>education</category></item><item><title>Cocoapod lint error: [xcodebuild] No such file or directory</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/05/cocoapod-lint-error-xcodebuild-no-such-file-or-directory/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/05/cocoapod-lint-error-xcodebuild-no-such-file-or-directory/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 00:23:40 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Multiple Keystores in Apache Camel/HttpClient</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/05/multiple-keystores-in-apache-camelhttpclient/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/05/multiple-keystores-in-apache-camelhttpclient/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:26:54 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Intro to Streams2: Design Patterns (Part 2)</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/04/intro-to-streams2-design-patterns-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/04/intro-to-streams2-design-patterns-part-2/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:56:51 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Java SSL with Multiple KeyStores</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/04/java-ssl-with-multiple-keystores/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/04/java-ssl-with-multiple-keystores/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:07:40 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Intro to Streams2: New Node Streams (Part 1)</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/04/intro-to-streams2-new-node-streams-part-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/04/intro-to-streams2-new-node-streams-part-1/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:28:25 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Elegant Shell Scripts</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/04/elegant-shell-scripts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/04/elegant-shell-scripts/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:16:31 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>What I&apos;ve Learned About Objective-C</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/04/what-ive-learned-about-objective-c/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/04/what-ive-learned-about-objective-c/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:33:13 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Open Source: Cassandra Super Columns to Composite Columns Migrator</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/04/open-source-cassandra-super-columns-to-composite-columns-migrator/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/04/open-source-cassandra-super-columns-to-composite-columns-migrator/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:14:25 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category></item><item><title>Case Study: Measuring Your Health</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/04/case-study-measuring-your-health/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/04/case-study-measuring-your-health/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:27:56 GMT</pubDate><category>case-studies</category></item><item><title>Mixing old and new streams in Node.js</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/04/mixing-old-and-new-streams-in-node-js/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/04/mixing-old-and-new-streams-in-node-js/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:22:08 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Smart Scales and Body Fat Measurements</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/04/smart-scales-and-body-fat-measurements/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/04/smart-scales-and-body-fat-measurements/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:08:07 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>Automating Cloud Applications Using Open Source</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/04/automating-cloud-applications-using-open-source/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/04/automating-cloud-applications-using-open-source/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:32:30 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Fighting Salesforce Web-to-Lead Spam</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/02/fighting-salesforce-web-to-lead-spam/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/02/fighting-salesforce-web-to-lead-spam/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:06:41 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Urban Opportunities, or Why I Love Chicago</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/01/urban-opportunities/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/01/urban-opportunities/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:18:42 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Finding Generic Type Parameters with Guava</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/01/finding-generic-type-parameters-with-guava/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/01/finding-generic-type-parameters-with-guava/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:11:14 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Automating Your Job Search</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/01/automating-your-job-search/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/01/automating-your-job-search/</guid><description>A friend of mine recently asked about my process when I was searching for a job. Although I briefly described my system, I&apos;m afraid I really didn&apos;t give the time to do it justice. This post is my penance.
My goal was to automate as much of the job search as possible. Rather than spending hours reading searching through all the postings on all the relevant job boards, I wanted to save searches and have the relevant jobs sent to me whenever they were posted. Then, when I found a potentially interesting job, I would record it into my master spreadsheet to track my follow-up actions. If you do nothing else, at least setup email alerts and a tracking spreadsheet. </description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:16:47 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Automatic model validation using Jersey, Jackson, and Hibernate Validator</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2013/01/automatic-model-validation-using-jersey-jackson-and-hibernate-validator/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2013/01/automatic-model-validation-using-jersey-jackson-and-hibernate-validator/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:44:23 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Mocking static java.util.Logger with EasyMock&apos;s PowerMock extension</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2012/05/mocking-static-java-util-logger-with-easymocks-powermock-extension/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2012/05/mocking-static-java-util-logger-with-easymocks-powermock-extension/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 03:18:44 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Book Review: Forging Truth</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2012/04/book-review-forging-truth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2012/04/book-review-forging-truth/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:31:57 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>Early Animation - The Zoescope</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2012/04/early-animation-the-zoescope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2012/04/early-animation-the-zoescope/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:12:20 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>Sharebox - A Dropbox-like Sharing App using Ruby on Rails</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2012/03/sharebox-a-dropbox-like-sharing-app-using-ruby-on-rails/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2012/03/sharebox-a-dropbox-like-sharing-app-using-ruby-on-rails/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:02:31 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Fixing the &quot;unknown attribute: uploaded_file&quot; error in the ShareBox Tutorial</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2012/03/fixing-the-unknown-attribute-uploaded_file-error-in-the-sharebox-tutorial/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2012/03/fixing-the-unknown-attribute-uploaded_file-error-in-the-sharebox-tutorial/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:32:26 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>PyYAML using easy_install on Mac OS X (Lion)</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/12/pyyaml-using-easy_install-on-mac-os-x-lion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/12/pyyaml-using-easy_install-on-mac-os-x-lion/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:50:13 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Eclipse Start-Up Crash on Mac OS X Lion</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/11/eclipse-start-up-crash-on-mac-os-x-lion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/11/eclipse-start-up-crash-on-mac-os-x-lion/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:57:53 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Lost Your Kindle? Email A Last-Ditch Note to the Finder/Thief.</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/09/lost-your-kindle-email-a-last-ditch-note-to-the-finderthief/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/09/lost-your-kindle-email-a-last-ditch-note-to-the-finderthief/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:38:50 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Simple REST API Testing Setup using Vows.js, Tobi, and Node.js</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/09/simple-rest-api-testing-setup-using-vows-js-tobi-and-node-js/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/09/simple-rest-api-testing-setup-using-vows-js-tobi-and-node-js/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 03:48:15 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Delete Lines Matching Regular Expression From Multiple Files</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/08/delete-lines-matching-regular-expression-from-multiple-files/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/08/delete-lines-matching-regular-expression-from-multiple-files/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:27:52 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Service Learning</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/08/service-learning/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/08/service-learning/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:21:45 GMT</pubDate><category>education</category></item><item><title>Graduated!</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/08/graduated/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/08/graduated/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:21:20 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category></item><item><title>Case Study: Cell Phone Bill Analysis</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/07/case-study-cell-phone-bill-analysis/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/07/case-study-cell-phone-bill-analysis/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:31:34 GMT</pubDate><category>case-studies</category></item><item><title>For Loops and Finite Series</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/07/for-loops-and-finite-series/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/07/for-loops-and-finite-series/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:30:33 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Update on My Life</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/07/update-on-my-life/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/07/update-on-my-life/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:42:38 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category></item><item><title>Teacher Transition: Instructor to Facilitator</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/05/teacher-transition-instructor-to-facilitator/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/05/teacher-transition-instructor-to-facilitator/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 13:30:15 GMT</pubDate><category>education</category></item><item><title>Skyscraper Competition</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/04/skyscraper-competition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/04/skyscraper-competition/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:40:31 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Social Power to Drive Change</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/04/social-power-to-drive-change/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/04/social-power-to-drive-change/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:29:27 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Getting Started with Eclipse on Mac OS X: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/04/getting-started-with-eclipse-on-mac-os-x-java-lang-noclassdeffounderror/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/04/getting-started-with-eclipse-on-mac-os-x-java-lang-noclassdeffounderror/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:04:25 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Well-Designed Software</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/04/well-designed-software/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/04/well-designed-software/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:19:39 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>Case Study: Philly Startup Leaders Engagement Dashboard</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/04/case-study-philly-startup-leaders-engagement-dashboard/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/04/case-study-philly-startup-leaders-engagement-dashboard/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:41:34 GMT</pubDate><category>case-studies</category></item><item><title>Changing Education Paradigms</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/03/changing-education-paradigms/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/03/changing-education-paradigms/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:00:39 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>Northwestern Learning Sciences PhD Application (Statement of Purpose)</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/03/northwestern-learning-sciences-phd-application-statement-of-purpose/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/03/northwestern-learning-sciences-phd-application-statement-of-purpose/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:05:07 GMT</pubDate><category>education</category></item><item><title>College Graduation and Grad School Decisions</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/03/college-graduation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/03/college-graduation/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:04:02 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Personal Names, Identity, and Culture</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/03/personal-names-identity-and-culture/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/03/personal-names-identity-and-culture/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:19:58 GMT</pubDate><category>wisdom-and-life</category></item><item><title>First Commercial! Clayton &quot;Dream Homes&quot;</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/03/first-commercial-clayton-dream-homes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/03/first-commercial-clayton-dream-homes/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:31:45 GMT</pubDate><category>news</category></item><item><title>Population Trends and Job Creation</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/01/population-trends-and-job-creation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/01/population-trends-and-job-creation/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:49:32 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Motivation in Design</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/01/723/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/01/723/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:55:22 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>Double Your Dropbox Space</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2011/01/double-your-dropbox-space/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2011/01/double-your-dropbox-space/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:20:52 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Case Study: Data-Driven Pricing</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/12/case-study-data-driven-pricing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/12/case-study-data-driven-pricing/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:46:13 GMT</pubDate><category>case-studies</category></item><item><title>Case Study: Piano Instructor</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/12/case-study-piano-instructor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/12/case-study-piano-instructor/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:58:29 GMT</pubDate><category>case-studies</category></item><item><title>Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/12/drive-the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/12/drive-the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:18:57 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>Physics of the Impossible</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/12/physics-of-the-impossible/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/12/physics-of-the-impossible/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:40:34 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>Purpose and Contribution</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/12/purpose-and-contribution/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/12/purpose-and-contribution/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:30:32 GMT</pubDate><category>wisdom-and-life</category></item><item><title>Business Development as a Form of Evolution</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/12/business-development-as-a-form-of-evolution/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/12/business-development-as-a-form-of-evolution/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:55:06 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Insight into Academia</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/12/insight-into-academia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/12/insight-into-academia/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:11:54 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Financial Motivation Businesses - Universities</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/12/financial-motivation-businesses-universities/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/12/financial-motivation-businesses-universities/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:55:38 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Speaking Your Mind</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/12/speaking-your-mind/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/12/speaking-your-mind/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 10:01:44 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>The Beak of the Finch</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/12/the-beak-of-the-finch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/12/the-beak-of-the-finch/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:30:43 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>Quick Tip - Python 2D+ Dictionaries</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/12/quick-tip-python-2d-dictionaries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/12/quick-tip-python-2d-dictionaries/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:47:21 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Improve Your GPA By Monitoring Trends</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/11/gpa-trends/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/11/gpa-trends/</guid><description>As many of you know, I&apos;m a bit of a data and analytics junkie, and like to claim that everything should be data-driven.∗ I eat my own dog food and, being a fairly public person, I don&apos;t mind showing the results: below is a chart graphing my GPA for each term as well as cumulatively since I&apos;ve started college.† If you&apos;re just starting your college career, you should keep your GPA high by monitoring these trends.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:38:15 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Bars and Conferences</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/11/bars-and-conferences/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/11/bars-and-conferences/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:08:48 GMT</pubDate><category>wisdom-and-life</category></item><item><title>Case for Routines</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/10/case-for-routines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/10/case-for-routines/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:38:04 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Dropbox Referrals using Mechanical Turk</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/10/dropbox-referrals-using-mechanical-turk/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/10/dropbox-referrals-using-mechanical-turk/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:49:03 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>WordPress LinkedIn Resume Plugin Fix</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/09/wordpress-linkedin-resume-plugin-fix/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/09/wordpress-linkedin-resume-plugin-fix/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:25:34 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Multitouch Interactive Table</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/09/multitouch-interactive-table/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/09/multitouch-interactive-table/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:06:37 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Special Characters in Twitter Message on Wordpress SexyBookmarks Plugin</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/09/special-characters-in-twitter-message-on-wordpress-sexybookmarks-plugin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/09/special-characters-in-twitter-message-on-wordpress-sexybookmarks-plugin/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:35:22 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Everybody&apos;s a Liar: HSPA+ vs WiMAX as &quot;4G&quot; Networks</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/08/everybodys-a-liar-hspa-vs-wimax-as-4g-networks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/08/everybodys-a-liar-hspa-vs-wimax-as-4g-networks/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:03:02 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>The Business of Fancydancing</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/08/the-business-of-fancydancing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/08/the-business-of-fancydancing/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:20:00 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Wordpress Authentication via Google Apps</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/08/wordpress-authentication-via-google-apps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/08/wordpress-authentication-via-google-apps/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:13:23 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Wordpress, WebDAV, and Dreamhost</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/08/wordpress-webdav-and-dreamhost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/08/wordpress-webdav-and-dreamhost/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:55:11 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>Billionaires give half away</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/08/billionaires-give-half-away/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/08/billionaires-give-half-away/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:05:29 GMT</pubDate><category>commentary</category></item><item><title>Native American Culture</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/07/native-american-culture/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/07/native-american-culture/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:58:55 GMT</pubDate><category>thoughts</category></item><item><title>Curiosity, Punishment, Isolation, and Culture</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2010/06/curiosity-punishment-isolation-and-culture/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2010/06/curiosity-punishment-isolation-and-culture/</guid><description>I had a very reflective day, and wrote a lot. Although its written more or less temporally, I tried to “clump” things together under headings to make skimming and understanding it easier. In this post, I discuss human curiosity, posing the question, &apos;what could we learn from children, before we shackle them with “social norms”&apos;? I exemplify the human condition as a form of relentless and unforgiven punishment. I discuss at length self-imposed human isolationism complete with a number of personal examples. And I conclude with a brief reference to changing culture.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:02:59 GMT</pubDate><category>wisdom-and-life</category></item><item><title>Desktop Shortcut for Google Reader (Mac OS X)</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2009/09/desktop-shortcut-for-google-reader-mac-os-x/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2009/09/desktop-shortcut-for-google-reader-mac-os-x/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:13:17 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorials</category></item><item><title>On Lifetimes Within a Lifetime</title><link>https://codyaray.com/2009/02/on-lifetimes-within-a-lifetime/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://codyaray.com/2009/02/on-lifetimes-within-a-lifetime/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:20:36 GMT</pubDate><category>wisdom-and-life</category></item></channel></rss>