I’ve written pretty extensively on my work with the Trello API and yesterday I got to present the code side of it at TechSmith’s internal development conference, ReCon. Last year I presented for the first time (when the event was called DevCon) and I think I learned a lot from it that helped me this […]
I was going through my portfolio recently and realized that I have an entry for my Press Your Luck game but I’ve only described how it works, never taken a deep dive into the code. The current version (if you can call something no longer in use “current”) runs entirely on the client side. There […]
I was going to do a write-up of the winners of the Grand Rapids Griffins’ jersey contest over at DetroitHockey.Net – where I’d already done a review and posted my predictions – but I realized doing so after my design didn’t win would come across as sour grapes. Instead, I decided to own that; accept the […]
As of a couple hours ago, the Grand Rapids Griffins’ alternate jersey contest is closed. I wrote about my submission early in the contest but with it done I feel a little more comfortable iterating on it a bit. After staring at my work for nearly a month, wondering if it would hold up to […]
I’ve written about applying development-like problem solving to realms outside my day job before and another interesting case of that came up for me this week. I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last couple days at MSU’s Munn Arena for the annual MSU Pro Camp, where a bunch of former Spartans and affiliated […]
I’ve written before about branding a fake hockey team, but with this week’s announcement of the Grand Rapids Griffins’ formerly-annual alternate jersey design contest, I got to try my hand at doing it for an actual team. The contest is still running so, unlike usual, all of the images included in this post are watermarked […]
Earlier today, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels tweeted out an interesting look into Amazon’s past. If want to learn more about building for the long term you should start with Jeff Bezos’ 1997 letter to shareholders http://t.co/IjmT51ua8T — Werner Vogels (@Werner) July 28, 2014 Now, there are lessons to learn from that letter and I don’t […]
I’ve been writing a ton of late about the Trello API because I’ve basically been head-down in it for the last week. Today I discovered my new biggest annoyance with an otherwise awesome tool. Using the Trello UI, it’s really simple to move a card from one column/list to another on the same board. Click […]
Last week I published a bit of code that uses the Trello API to keep parent and child cards synced across a set of boards. It was a little piece of research that has absolutely taken off around the office so I’ve been expanding on it and demoing it and talking about it and generally […]
One of the things my team at work always seems to have a problem with is tracking our tasks and how they fit into the bigger picture of our team’s goals. We had these problems when we were using a bulletin board, we have these problems now that we’re using a single Trello board. We […]