Hello. My name is Scott and I am a Senior Software Engineer at Blackboard. I am responsible for our Developer Community, so I spend a lot of time planning and executing Developer Conferences, writing sample code and documentation, and mostly just getting my nerd on!
I enjoy polyglot programming, which writing sample code for REST APIs makes very easy. I enjoy the MEAN stack and Python the most these days, but I've yet to find a language I can't have fun with. I cut my teeth developing C on unix (yes, I'm that old, I didn't just spell Linux wrong haha) for 12 years before joining Blackboard.
I am currently learning the intricacies of the IMS Global Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) specification. I've "implemented" it several times using libraries, but I'm spending some quality time with the spec to implement it from scratch to wrap my head around it.
Favorite side project was the migration of a Blackboard Building Block (aka a Tomcat Webapp) to an LTI application using REST APIs using the MEAN stack. It was a fun project and I enjoyed teaching myself Angularjs as I went along.
Lastly, technology as changed the way I connect with others by forcing me to have 6 communication apps open at all times, eating up all of my computer resources, making me really grumpy when I talk to people. Ok, just kidding about that last bit... or am I?
Hello. My name is Scott and I am a Senior Software Engineer at Blackboard. I am responsible for our Developer Community, so I spend a lot of time planning and executing Developer Conferences, writing sample code and documentation, and mostly just getting my nerd on!
I enjoy polyglot programming, which writing sample code for REST APIs makes very easy. I enjoy the MEAN stack and Python the most these days, but I've yet to find a language I can't have fun with. I cut my teeth developing C on unix (yes, I'm that old, I didn't just spell Linux wrong haha) for 12 years before joining Blackboard.
I am currently learning the intricacies of the IMS Global Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) specification. I've "implemented" it several times using libraries, but I'm spending some quality time with the spec to implement it from scratch to wrap my head around it.
Favorite side project was the migration of a Blackboard Building Block (aka a Tomcat Webapp) to an LTI application using REST APIs using the MEAN stack. It was a fun project and I enjoyed teaching myself Angularjs as I went along.
Lastly, technology as changed the way I connect with others by forcing me to have 6 communication apps open at all times, eating up all of my computer resources, making me really grumpy when I talk to people. Ok, just kidding about that last bit... or am I?
I can see massive mileage in #LTI but it seems to be far less known than other standards... any idea why this is?