Creation of ION-Query for MeshAlpha.io (Pt. 1)

All things Rule! Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutesDifficulty: Novice This post chronicles the journey of creating an Open Source TypeScript Rule Engine from conception to release. While the code will be open source (MIT License), it is asked that this or other articles are referenced, and attributed to Kamau Washington if a strategy or code …

ISO 6346 – Shipping Container Codes

I often spend time researching and implementing algorithms in multiple languages as a way to keep my programming skillset sharp, learn a new language and its syntactical sugar, and to have the algorithms at my disposal when and if I need them. ISO 6346 is an international standard that describes the identification of a shipping container. The standard is maintained by the BIC (International Container Bureau) and covers the serial number, owner, country code, and size of any given shipping container.