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dzwillia

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About dzwillia

I serve as the Senior Front End Developer of the development team at Flex.io and live in the beautiful foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.

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    Comment #24992663

    Add to this list the fact that there is no setting anywhere in the preferences (not even in the Windows registry) to turn off the "Your Dropbox is almost full! Upgrade now!" notifi…

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    Comment #21516286

    Hi all -- its been a long journey, but wanted to share our app that makes remote data accessible as a custom function in Excel/Google Sheets. In addition to Python/Node.js we have …

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    Comment #18448994

    ...and half of them were probably for Wall Drug! ;-)

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    Comment #18398319

    Interesting idea! Just wondering if there are any benefits to going down this road other than saving the 21K of bandwidth necessary for Gzipped/minified Vue.js?

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    Comment #18338849

    ...and this is really what it comes down to. State management should come down to what the front end has to manage in order to be well-organized and structured. By creating a multi…

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    Comment #18287139

    Don't forget the JS library that senses your mouse position so that when you move your mouse up to the tab bar, it opens a final "Wait, don't go! Here's a free e-book, etc." modal …

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    Comment #18262084

    Hi there! This seems like an interesting concept. Signing into your app via the link in the email does a good job of showing the concept of what you're working on. Your app also ha…

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    Comment #18261999

    Heh -- I'd say it's safe to say that almost all companies are data companies now. Walmart, Amazon, UPS, grocery stores, etc. Even if you take a look at major league baseball teams,…

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    Comment #18261979

    Interesting idea! I'm also curious about the business model here. It seems like if you were to aggregate a certain set of metrics and then have each use rate each company for a giv…

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    Comment #16699187

    Hi all -- we're using Hexo for our website. For our API docs we wanted to provide 'live' runnable code snippets in Markdown, so I came up with a way to make it easy for anyone on o…

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