Author Archives: Kate Ilardi

How to Share your Starbucks Smart Phone Bar Code with your Significant Other

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Kate Ilardi

It’s pretty simple. Since the Bar Code is just a representation of your gift cards Serial Number, all you need to do is take a Screen Capture from your phone of the generated Starbucks Card Bar Code. If you do … Continue reading →

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You’re Not Thinking Fourth Dimensionally

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Kate Ilardi

This is a quote from the textbook we used in the Programming Languages course I took in college: “It is widely believed that the depth at which we can think is influenced by the expressive power of the language in … Continue reading →

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Singletons and Factories of Singletons

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Kate Ilardi

A Singleton is a design pattern that allows for a One and ONLY One Object instance of a class  to be instantiated within the memory of a process using object oriented programming concepts. Maybe people will ask, well why can’t I use a … Continue reading →

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The Classic Producer – Consumer Problem

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Kate Ilardi

One of the main questions that my team ask potential candidates during technical interviews, is the Producer – Consumer Problem. We have found over the years that this problem is one of the main issues we have with potential new … Continue reading →

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SFEMS – Stable, Flexible, Extensible, Maintainable, Scalable

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Kate Ilardi

For the last 8 years that I have been giving my architects, tech leads, and developers their yearly performance reviews, I have been using the acronym “SFEMS”. Arguably you can say I should just be telling my architects and maybe tech leads that … Continue reading →

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So, if you had your own t-shirt, what would your catch phrase say?

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Kate Ilardi

I recently participated in a company sponsored people strategy event, where I was part of a panel of leaders at various levels within my department. One of the questions posed to the Panel which we didn’t have an opportunity to … Continue reading →

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The Evolution of RogueLogic Logos

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Kate Ilardi

This is actually a blog entry I posted on RogueLogic.com back in 2009: With the 10th anniversary of RogueLogic coming up, I thought it would be nice to quickly go over the evolution of the RogueLogic logos since the birth … Continue reading →

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They Use Roguelogic

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Kate Ilardi

Back in 1997, US Robotics had a small banner advertisement on AOL for their 56K X2 modem, which I happened to own at the time, so I took a screen capture and cropped out just the logo. After many searches … Continue reading →

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PASH – A Simple Unix SHell

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Kate Ilardi

What is it? Back in late 2004, I decided to finally write my own Unix SHell from scratch in the C Programming Language. One of the professors that taught Operating Systems at Polytechnic University back when I was an undergrad, actually … Continue reading →

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Question Posed: Cultivating Good System Architects

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Kate Ilardi

While on my latest trip to London, I was posed the question: “What does it take the cultivate good System Architects within you organization?” As I’m currently sitting in the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse waiting for my flight back to the … Continue reading →

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