KatPadi's Point

Author: Kat Padilla

I am a caffeine-dependent aspiring web developer. You can find me at @katpadi tweeting random stuff about my misadventures as an amateur coder or about the Lakers. I do a lot of stuff with my computer.

Meet Ernie

Note: This blog post is 2 weeks late. We (as usual, I was with Mark Steve) joined this event called Textify and we were given a month or so to think of an SMS-based project and build it. It was hosted by Chikka with the help of Smart DevNet to promote the use of the recently launched Chikka SMS API platform. At…

Welcome Back NBA!

Screw LeBron’s “coming home” party, Kobe’s back. Tomorrow marks the start of the NBA 2014-2015 season and Kobe’s first NBA game since Dec 18, 2013 against the Memphis Grizzlies. (Fun fact: Ed Davis was still part of that roster and now he’s with the Lakers). Aside from Davis, Lakers have a lot of new players…

RSpec Adventures

RSpec is an awesome tool for behaviour-driven testing. It’s mostly used in test driven development (“TDD”), where the developer writes the test based on what the application should do, and then creates the program to accomplish the goals of the test. At first, I found this tedious because it means extra work for me (the developer). But in the long…

My Twitter Favoriter Experiment

I wanted to prove that favoriting semi-random tweets increases followers in Twitter. I wrote a “bot” that  favorites tweets that contain hashtags that I’m interested in. For my own peace of mind, I didn’t choose mainstream or popular hashtags (ie. #KathNiel) because I wanted to have a set of quality followers. I’m sure there have…