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Sure has been a long time since I’ve done one of these, but I’ve been doing more front end development, and it makes it so my brain doesn’t get enough of a work out. This is the sixth post in my Project Euler series (if series is the right word). The fifth problem is here. I also decided […]

Recently a team member sent around a link to a post from Matt Briggs about the role of a Senior Developer. It’s a very interesting read that I recommend to anyone who wants to grow as a developer. The post is an over simplification of what it means to be a junior, intermediate, or senior

Funny enough, I actually did all of this work a while ago, before apple announced their new trackpad thingy. Many people who use the Magic Trackpad (or the Macbook’s trackpad) prefer to do a two finger click instead of a right mouse click. Let me preface by saying, I am not one of you. I

This was initially going to be a small part of a different blog post, but somewhere along the lines I realized that this “little” part of the other post was easily large enough to be it’s own post. This is a pretty cool topic in and of itself. The post it was going to be

I recently started doing an online course on “MEAN” applications for fun. If you’re not familiar, MEAN stands for Mongo, Express, Angular, Node. It’s pretty neat to see the kinds of things that you can throw together. I still don’t think I’d write something for production that uses Node.js, but other people have had good

At work, we’re recently started to try and be nice people when it comes to repositories. We’ve started leaving more README’s. Also we’ve found that when we’re sending out emails to other people, formatting code is just a pain. It’s usually just little clips here and there. The kind of thing you would put in

In Xcode 6, apple made some interesting changes to the way iOS simulators work. They are actually really interesting. The short story is, you can create your own simulators. Pick your own OS and device hardware, and a simulator is born. All you have to do is open Xcode and go to  Window -> Devices and in the bottom

I’ve been using JavaScript a lot more than I used to. To be perfectly honest, I’m not a big fan of the language. There are some cool things that you can do, and I can understand how it could be nice and fast for small projects, but for any kind of enterprise web application, things

I’ve been interested in learning more languages for quite some time, and recently I decided that it’s about time to add another one. Most recently I added Ruby to the mix, and I feel like I know it just well enough to get by. Modules are still a mystical and annoyingly complex box, but for

This little project cdm about because of a need to install an ipa from our TeamCity (our CI server). I’ve heard people fawning all over Jenkins, but I have very mixed feelings on open source. Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes you start contributing to an open source project and find yourself wondering how the thing