"That sounds...interesting" is a pretty common response when I explain to people that "I spend a lot of time working on logging, and no really, it's quite exciting." Yet I can never seem to drive home just _why_ I find logging so fascinating as an area of technical inquiry.

Today, I present some powerful regexes for use in date processing! To try these out, just head over to regexr.com. This regex will capture all dates in the formats MM/DD/YY, MM/DD/YYYY, MM-DD-YY, MM-D-YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD and more! ([0,1]?\d{1})[\/|\-](([0-2]?\d{1})|([3]

I'm starting a new series of posts on coding tricks that are simple in principle but often take someone new to a technology too long to find on Stack Overflow. This serves two purposes. First, I can find them again, which always makes things easier when I haven't used something

In the past four weeks, my team and I have been working on GermTheory [germ-tracker.herokuapp.com/mobile], a web and mobile application to help contain and track disease outbreaks. To deploy the mobile application, we spent a great deal of time considering whether we wanted to build it natively

In my last post [http://kevinmeurer.com/deep-dive-into-python-normalizing-location-data-for-time-comparison/] , I explained how we intended to normalize data for time comparison in GermTheory [https://github.com/germTheory/germTheoryWebApp], a project I've been working on lately as a team. The goal of the functions outlined there was to take intermittent location points and

In the past week, I've begun working with a team to create Germ Theory, a collaborative effort with Dr. Eric Ding [http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/eric-ding/] at Harvard to map disease outbreaks and determine who may be infected. As part of this effort, I am working directly with Jose

Note: This post is one of a series that I'm rewriting since the great blog wipe of 2014 [http://kevinmeurer.com/sqlite-with-great-power-comes-great-destruction/]. Recently, I've begun work on a new app called Schedulize [https://github.com/kmeurer/Schedulize]. Essentially, the idea is to automatically assign hourly employees to shifts based on

Note: This Blog post is now deprecated. While I encourage you to use Ghost, Azure has since changed their system since the initial authoring of this post, and it is therefore no longer as relevant. This past weekend, I successfully set up this blog with the help of a variety