7 Databases in 7 Weeks – 8 Week Review and Experience

January 23, 2012

Databases are annoying and generally suck. Many us developers prefer to just do stuff with data and don’t like to deal with storing data beyond a nice pretty api. However, to be an effective software developer we also understand knowing about databases is a smart idea, doesn’t mean we have to like it. One of [...]

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Getting Started with Twitter Bootstrap

January 16, 2012

UPDATE: Post has been updated for version 2 of bootsrap If you are a developer like me you can write code, but design is not one of your strong points. You probably don’t mind too much, but would like demo apps and test stuff to look a bit better. Well Bootstrap can be used for [...]

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HTML5 Local Storage Intro

January 9, 2012

HTML5 local storage is a really cool feature which is super easy to use and fairly useful, especially for your HTML5 web applications. I have recently started using it for a few items here and there and am impressed with how versatile it is. Storing Data Local storage is a key value pair based storage [...]

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Reviewing 2011 the Year that Changed Everything for Me

January 6, 2012

I can honestly say that over the last year I have gone from a beginnermediate developer to an intermediate developer. This was something that was most definitely hard won, but thoroughly pleasing. I just hope the quantity of stuff I have learned in the last year and half will hold through the next year. Lets [...]

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Check Your JavaScript for Syntax Errors Outside the Browser

December 19, 2011

Writing JavaScript can really suck when you have simple syntax errors. Often you have to refresh the page, in a browser, to make sure the code is syntactically correct. Working more with JavaScript, especially PhoneGap, making sure the syntax is correct before even bothering to run the JavaScript code is a must since it takes [...]

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Hosting Your Open Source Project on Heroku with Private Configuration

December 12, 2011

My first major open source application, the GoDjango site, is teaching me a lot about deployment and maintaining secrecy of custom configuration like username/passwords and api keys. I don’t want them to get into the main branch of the GoDjango github repo, but I want to minimize pain while pushing to heroku and have everything [...]

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Things to Look at When You Are Using a PhoneGap Plugin

December 5, 2011

PhoneGap is really cool since you can use web development technologies to do native mobile app development. Unfortunately it doesn’t support everything the phone does via its JavaScript API. For that you need to use plugins which execute native code, and is called from JavaScript. Makeup Of a Plugin PhoneGap plugins consist of 2 things. [...]

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HTML5, Webm, and Firefox – Why It Doesn’t Work Right Away

December 2, 2011

For GoDjango I like to use HTML5 video playback for all the screencasts, but unfortunately there isn’t a good standard video type for playback. Generally MP4 (h.264) works fine for mobile devices, chrome, safari, and IE. However, for Firefox, my browser of choice, you need to have either Webm or Ogg Vorbis. I ended up [...]

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Just Launched GoDjango

November 19, 2011

Recently I was compelled to learn python since it seemed like a lot of different forces were driving me to do so. After learning the syntax basics I figured I would take the next step to start learning Django since it is the predominant web framework for python, and I am a web developer. One [...]

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Entrepreneur Talk at Tulsa Tech Fest 2011

October 12, 2011

I was fortunate enough to give a talk on my experience of creating Sourcehold, and what I went through my first year. Below are the slides and the books I recommend. From Zero to Money in 1 Year or Less – Tulsa Tech Fest 2011 View more presentations from Buddy Lindsey Books Quitter EntreLeadership: 20 [...]

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