Notes on software and side projects.
I’m Andrew Bender — a software developer and entrepreneur in Milwaukee. More about me →
Recent writing
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Dynamic Pivot Tables with JSON and PostgreSQL
2016.09.18
Pivoting data is a useful technique in reporting, allowing you to present data in columns that is stored as rows. Assuming you’re using a...
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Tabletop Telecast: Live Streaming Sentinel Tactics
2014.12.30
This past fall I was brought in to produce live video coverage of a competitive board game tournament by Greater Than Games in St. Louis,...
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Paying Off Our Technical Debt
2014.09.01
All new businesses incur some amount of debt whether in the form of loans, investment notes, owners equity, or any number of other things...
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Embedding a Twitter feed using API v1.1
2013.10.05
Back in June of this year, Twitter discontinued their public REST API version 1.0, which made it impossible to anonymously pull twitter f...
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Returning Hierarchical Data in a Single SQL Query
2013.09.22
I am a big proponent of using the right tool for the job. And as far as databases are concerned, I believe that in most cases a relationa...