I wouldn’t say I’m much of a photographer but I like to give it a shot from time to time. This weekend’s ice storm gave me the chance to wander around the yard and try to take some artsy shots.
Every year my in-laws do the whole “drawing names” thing at Christmas, where each person draws one other person and buys a gift for them. Nearly as often, there’s drama about it. Someone complains about “always” getting someone else. Someone gets themself (that was me this year). I decided to remove the human element from […]
Sometimes it’s the pointless little projects that are surprisingly fun. I recently upgraded my phone. I’m not going to lie, at the end the main reason I loved my old Galaxy Nexus wasn’t the technology but the fact that I had a custom case with the DetroitHockey.Net logo on it. Half the point of the […]
“Ahoy, matees! Ye good ship [company name redacted] has openin’s for wild, talented, sea-worthy PHPirates an’ web developers t’ join the crew in thar normal behaviors o’ technical adventurin’ ‘n grog consumption. You’ll sail thee vast dataseas, wielding code like a sabre and buildin’ sites to confound and delight even the blackest of beards.” Thus […]
Back in July I wrote a bit about my implementation of AWS ElasticTranscoder within DetroitHockey.Net’s multimedia archives. I knew as I was writing it that I wanted to take it a step further and I got the chance to do that last week, presenting an expanded version of my post as a lecture at TechSmith’s […]
Over the past week or so I’ve been a little too obsessed with Cookie Clicker. It’s an awesome little JavaScript-based game and I can’t just leave it alone. I’m at a point in the game where it takes hours before I can buy the next item I’m looking for. Just out of curiousity, I was […]
Up until about thirty seconds before I hit publish on this post, there was a section on this site called “Code Samples.” I removed it (after pulling one piece of code over to this blog) because I realized it wasn’t providing what it should. Said section was made up of four links to zip files, […]
Sometime soon I’ll write a bit on my new-ish philosophy about code samples. For now it’s enough to say that I’m cleaning out that section of my site but there’s one project I wanted to keep documented, so I’m writing it up here and now even though the code is from 2005. The “Opening Night […]
I’d been extremely resistant to adopting third-party tools in my development efforts for a very long time. I liked owning my tools end-to-end and I liked writing my own code just for the sake of knowing exactly how it worked. I didn’t even have a Gmail account because I was running my own mail server […]
Over the last couple weeks I’ve spent some time playing around with Chrome development and Google Hangout extensions. Nothing revolutionary by any means but there were a couple interesting things I came across that I figured I’d share out. One thing I found slightly funny is that both Chrome extensions and Hangout extensions are JavaScript […]