I've always enjoyed drawing but I never felt good at it. It was just "doodling" for me. But a couple months ago, I came to the conclusion that the only reason

Every couple of months I think about starting a YouTube channel and to start making videos regularly. I've created some videos in the past and have enjoyed the process. My main hangup has

The TrueDepth Camera is being marketed about reading faces, but at the foundation, it is just checking the depth of anything in front of the camera. It would be awesome if developers get

Every day we have a chance to do something different. To make something. How ever small. Thinking about something is different than doing something. I love this quote: You can't build a reputation

You only have 19.05 GB of storage. Save space by optimizing storage. After OSX's latest alert telling me that I'm running out of space, I finally decided to do something about it.

It's a cliché, but we know it's true. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu Building a habit to run starts with the first intentional walk. Creating something

I heard everyone’s enjoyment about standing desks. How it helped with various pains and made people feel healthier. I have an awesome IKEA desk which can be assembled in many ways, so

"Stop. You're speaking too quickly." Larry was helping me with my public speaking, and I really needed it. "Try this. As you speak, put a long pause between each word.

Matt pointed me to a great slide share called 26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I'd Known at 20. I think it is a great list of reminders and some of them really

When developing in Rails I prefer to do TDD. So when I start my Ember app I wanted to do the same. Unfortunately there isn't much out there. Ember.js uses QUnit, but

Maybe I'm just easily impressed, but I really like Robin Ward's Ember Press. It isn't really my kind of game, but it is a great example of a well written Ember application. Robin

Ember makes it easy to add an action to a button or an anchor tag with the {{action}} helper, but sometimes you need more control. Delegation works out really well. You create a

I had a hard time with nested routes the first time, so I hope to clear it up for others. Let's start with the following router: App.Router.map(function(){ this.resource('posts',

I've been looking at Ember on and off for the past couple months and took a serious dive into it this past week. I stumbled through a few fo the basics so my

One of the big time savers I loved in TextMate was the ability to copy and paste multiple things at a time. In TextMate, if you will ⌘+C multiple items of text, you

After realizing I had 400 unread articles in Instapaper (dating all the way back to 2009), I've declared bankruptcy by moving them into their own folder. I'll go through them slowly over the

Terminal I've recently picked up an amazing Terminal shortcut: ^ + R. Gone are the days of hitting up arrow a bunch of times to get to a previous command. This little shortcut will let

I've been working on redoing the OrangeQC website the past couple weeks and it was good to put into practice some fo the stuff I was learning at the end of my time

Here are some of the great articles I've come across this week. You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do Patrick McKenzie gets into why it can be valuable to get into

Scott Porad writes about why software is hard: First, name one other thing in the world, he said, that is used by so many people and which is created entirely by hand? Stuff

Last week was the end of my position at Nelson Cash. After working with the team there for a year, I was able to see them grow from 4 people meeting up in

This past week I was working on a Ruby on Rails project where I needed to list out a lot of attributes of an object. The difficult part came in the fact that

My mindset on how to use and develop in jQuery has just changed dramatically. I watched Yehuda Katz's video on Evented Programming. Basically the idea he presents boils down to asking: If this