May 15, 2016
Carme Test Plan
This week in the Coursera IoT Capstone Course, we had to complete a test plan document. The plan had to include both component and integration testing. I have posted the test plan…
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May 11, 2016
The Private Flood Insurance Bill
The House of Representatives just passed a bill allowing private insurance to meet the flood insurance requirement for homeowners. In most cases, if you have a federally-backed mortgage, and you are on…
May 8, 2016
Carme Design Alternatives
This week in the Coursera IoT Capstone Course, we had to complete a design document. However, unlike a true design document, the requirements specified a list of options for potential design, along…
May 6, 2016
My Dissertation
With this week's announcement, I realized I had never posted my dissertation online. And I post everything online. So here, you can now download my dissertation here.
May 2, 2016
Socioeconomic Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program is now available
I am happy to say my book, Socioeconomic Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program , is now for sale. It has actually been available for a few days on SpringerLink. But…
Apr 28, 2016
New Balloon Project
I've talked about it quite a bit, and even mentioned it here, but the kids and I are planning to build a space robot. We've wanted to do this for several years,…
Apr 26, 2016
Advice for Deploying Agile Analytics
Lisa Morgan at InformationWeek writes about agile analytics: Organizations have potential access to more data today than they've ever had before, but they're not always aware of what they have inside their…
Apr 25, 2016
Chernobyl's Liquidators
At this moment, thirty years ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine, suffered a "catastrophic power increase," commonly called a meltdown, that killed 31 people. This post is not to…
Apr 24, 2016
Watch my Ignite Talk on Stormwater Management
On Thursday, I had the joy of speaking at Ignite again, this time at Ignite Baltimore 18. I spoke about stormwater management and how we need to fix the stormwater management fee…
Apr 22, 2016
Notes on the Variscite DART-MX6 GPIO Interface
Because of reasons, I have a Variscite VAR-DTK-MX6 evaluation kit for the DART-MX6 system on module (SOM) sitting on my desk at home. It's a neat little board. The DART-MX6 is small,…
Apr 21, 2016
Coping with Disaster at Springer
For those of you who don't know, Springer will be publishing my new book on flood insurance pretty much any minute now. In fact, it is already on SpringerLink. And that's kind…