Building a better, and free, Remote Jobs board
In late 2018 I had decided to make a change in my career and was open to remote job roles (though I have ultimately landed with a great local company). So I began looking at the various w...
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Millennials in the Workplace 'Don't Care'
A recent post on Entreprenuer.com about Millenials is another in the string of generalizations about a group of people that are not founded in any data. Rigid office hours? Strict dress c...
Why Employee Ranking Can Backfire
I've never been a fan of employee ranking. There is little evidence to prove that it drives sustainable positive behavior. In the past I would have argued that Sales might be an exception...
Why We Love to Hate HR…and What HR Can Do About It
Talent wars are highly cyclical. The software/technology world is one of the few that manages to remain somewhat even-keeled, but it is by no means immune. Assuming we are in a valuation ...
Programmers and Thespians
It’s not that email is broken or productivity tools all suck; it’s just that culture changes. People make email clients or to-do list apps in the same way that theater companies perform S...
Wearables Rant
For a time I un-ironically wore a Casio calculator watch. It was a simpler time filled with naiveté and hope for the future of tiny computers. With this Dick-Tracian future neigh upon us ...
Sources for Royalty Free Images and Mockup Images
Just to make my life easier when I want to find these again later. Oh, and you can use these too. Based on this post http://nos.twnsnd.co - New Old Stock http://littlevisuals.co http://un...
Setting up a Digital Ocean Droplet (VPS) on Ubuntu with Rails, Nginx, Unicorn, Postgres, Redis and Capistrano
Create a Droplet on Digital Ocean I stuck with the defaults: Size 512MB / 1 CPU 20GB SSD $5 / Month Image Ubuntu 12.04 x32 ssh to root in terminal with your server's ip address ssh root@1...
First Sketch Ever
This is a sketch of me done by a super cool friend of mine named Melissa Shields. She is super talented and you can see more of her work on Dribbble.
iOS bounds vs frame
I ask myself this question almost every 3-4 months: "Ahhhh, what is the difference between bounds and frame again?" The answer as found here: The bounds of an UIView is the rectangle, exp...
iBooks Author Tips and Tricks [Repost]
Reposted from here Change hyperlink color: There are many predefined styles with each template, and they are modifiable. Hyperlink color is one of those 'styles'. Follow this process to c...
Sketch by Bohemian Coding - Resources
http://sketchmine.co http://twitter.com/Madewithsketch http://www.sketchappsources.com http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/community/
Setting up WordPress MultiSite on DigitalOcean
When you click Create Droplet ensure that you name the droplet with the name of the domain that you want to point to it. When you get to the point where you are going to ssh in to your se...
Open Sublime Text 2 from the Terminal
As seen here by artero Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal Sublime Text 2 ships with a CLI called subl. Sublime recommends using these instructions to symlink subl but I thin...
Some of my favorite Jamaican words, phrases
Coo yah Cu de Buttu Creb Cotch Cease and Sekkle Cerasee tea Come een like Craven "Craven choke puppy" Kris/Cris/Crissas Crocus bag Scandal bag Cyan Cyaan Card him up Cut you eye Kiss you ...
RubyMotion tutorials, resources, blog posts, screencasts, and projects
1. Welcome to RubyMotion by Laurent Sansonetti This is a great introduction to RubyMotion and a great way to get your feet wet. 2. RubyMotion Tutorial by Clay Allsopp A dead simple introd...
Excited about getting a Balance Bike for my son!
My son will be 23 months old in a couple of days and he is always ON. He lives like he has enough energy to power a small town. Recently he has been getting very interested in riding toys...
A Running Story
image courtesy of joshjanssen Have you ever wanted to get started with running or to get back into it after being gone a while? I have wanted to start running again for almost 5 years and...
Setting up Airmail for Mac with Office365.com IMAP and SMTP
I recently downloaded a great new mail app for Mac called Airmail. You can get it on the Mac App Store. Setting it up with an Office365.com company account is a little finicky. Here are t...
Set up Wordpress on Heroku
CAVEAT: Currently the plugin used to save images to Amazon S3 does not generate thumbnails Github Issue This is pretty much me summarizing and slightly adapting the Readme from the projec...
Setting up two WordPress blogs in under an hour on Heroku
This blog post you are reading right now is a Ruby on Rails site, hosted on Heroku, that I have been working on as a learning experiment and to keep me involved in the Rails world. The po...
What devices can you use Evernote on?
This post is part of a series of posts on Evernote. Evernote as a company tries its best to make sure that you have as many ways as possible to access their service. They have done an exc...
Getting started with Evernote
Who uses Evernote Evernote is used by a wide variety of people because it can be adapted to many different work flows. It's great for organizing your thoughts and notes for writing a beau...
The rise of Bring Your Own Device
Large organizations and the federal government have long been against allowing employees to bring their own laptops to work or to even use their personal cell phones for work related acti...
What is Evernote?
Evernote is an application for taking notes. It is accessible via http://evernote.com or through any of its numerous native applications for desktop and mobile devices. One of the things ...
Brainstorming a short eBook about Evernote
I've recently been tossing around the idea of writing a short eBook about how I use Evernote. Instead of just thinking about what I would write, how about writing down what I think I coul...
Why should you use Evernote? Because it will change your life
Why should you use Evernote? Because it will change your life May 1, 2013 What is Evernote? Evernote is, at its core, a place to store notes. Storing notes is a far too simple way to desc...
My steps for getting a VPS up and running with Rails/Sinatra
Recovered code companions from the original post.
A simple Rails 3 and Backbone.js screencast
This is a quick screencast on how to use Backbone.js with a Ruby on Rails application. The screencast covers the simple example of submitting a form, saving the data to the database, and ...
Making your Rails web app invite only using devise_invitable
There are many sites and applications that begin their lives as “invite only.” This can be a very effective method of creating a sense of scarcity and at the same time build in a certain ...
How to get Compass to work on Heroku
Compass is a Ruby gem that provides a stylesheet authoring framework based on Sass. It is an awesome way to generate CSS. I ran into some trouble getting my Ruby on Rails application to r...
A CSS tag I have never seen before
word-spacing I have never seen this CSS tag before today, but it turns out it is useful for a number of different things. Its primary usage is for, as the name suggests, setting the space...
Using Moment for delaying jobs in a Rails 3 app
I recently needed to schedule delayed tasks in a web app that utilizes the Twilio SMS API, this is a discussion of how I handled that situation. My plan was to host my app on Heroku as I ...
Why “The Daily” will fail
The Daily will fail because it is not any better than USA Today’s, The Wall Street Journal’s, Wired’s, or ANY of the other magazine/newspaper’s apps. If I have to see a spinner for more t...
From Spine Surgery to Web Apps
This past Friday I quit my job as a Spine sales representative and starting Monday will be pursuing my dream of co-founding an internet startup company. One of the few things I didn’t lik...
How to hack a marathon if you aren’t a runner.
[UPDATE: Please do not take this post as a recommendation for you to try to do what we did. Thanks, hope you enjoy!] A few years ago I ran the San Francisco marathon without training and ...
Why I’m not getting the Verizon iPhone 4
The Verizon iPhone is launching for current Verizon customers on Feb 3rd and I will not be one of the people in line to get it. I have an iPad and I am addicted to it so don’t call me an ...
Dealing with Competition
Competition is inevitable. If you are in a job in which you never feel as though you are competing with another entity, then: 1. You are in a monopoly, and 2. Your job will eventually bec...
Twilio API and Rails 3 example
I recently created a simple Rails app based on the Twilio API (which is awesome) and the Twilio “appointment reminder” demo. Twilio allows developers to incorporate telephony into their w...
What will Apple Announce Today?
Here are my predictions for today’s “Back to the Mac” event (Happening in a few hours): New version of Mac OSX = 10.7 Refresh of the Air laptop and addition of a smaller screen size. Pric...
Install Ruby on Rails on a PC – Done!
I previously wrote a post about accepting the challenge of installing Ruby on Rails on a PC only to temporarily give up because I had bought a Mac Mini which comes with Ruby on it. This i...
SMBs should use Trada for SEM instead of slogging it out.
I just listened to an interview with Neil Robertson (@neilr1) from Trada.com and he is an extremely knowledgable and levelheaded CEO. His company Trada is essentially an expert-crowd-sour...
Facebook Places and the fight over location.
Facebook launched Facebook Places this past week as was expected by everyone. Over the course of the week I learned a lot of interesting tidbits about Facebook and the location based serv...
Watch the Ignite talk I gave on August 4th in Charlotte!
5 minutes, 20 slides, auto-advance every 15 seconds. GO! I gave this talk at the first Ignite event held in Charlotte, NC on August 4th 2010 at the Neighborhood Theatre. My talk was on th...
Upgrading the Droid to Froyo (Android 2.2) and its cool new features
This past weekend I upgraded my Motorola Droid to Android 2.2 (As of this writing the most recent version of Android), which goes by the name Froyo (short for Frozen Yogurt). Here are som...
Search bar and social network icons in Wordpress Thesis theme header
I recently switched my theme from a plug-and-chug type theme to one of the white-labelish type themes called Thesis. It is very flexible and is almost like starting with a blank canvas th...
Draw on your computer from your iPad with AirSketch
I just tried out the AirSketch app on the iPad (Free version) and it is awesome. The app works very nicely with an extremely fast response, as you can see in the video below. It is compat...
Android and Ruby on Rails
For the past few days I have been ruminating about the ability to use an Android app to get and post data from and to a Ruby on Rails application. Since I just started learning Ruby on Ra...
Follow Charlotte’s City Council Members on Twitter
I must say that I am a little disappointed in the lack of participation on Twitter from our elected officials. I realize that Twitter is not for everyone, but when you have the example of...
The problem with Foursquare
The location check-in service Foursquare completed a $20 million round of financing last week valuing the company at $95 million. This valuation has brought up some questions: Is Foursqua...
How to push your WordPress blog posts to Twitter and Facebook
So, you write a blog, have a Twitter account and a Facebook Profile and/or Page, all which need updating. Here is how to do them all at once using WordPress. What you need A WordPress Blo...
Top 5 Android Apps for Sales Reps
Documents To Go ($14.99) Documents To Go by DataViz allows you to view and edit Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and PDF files. It is huge for opening email attachements or making notes and it ed...
Springpad beats Evernote and why you should care.
I went on a Springpad spree today! Every day I start springpadding more and more stuff. Springpad and Evernote are at their base note taking apps for iPhones and Android devices (like my ...
Ruby and Mac (Yeah I got one)
For all you avid readers (mom), the lack of updates on Ruby being installed on a PC is inexcusable but I have an excuse anyway. I think Mr. Ruby never intended people with PCs to use Ruby...
Customer Service representatives are people too.
Yesterday I had to call customer service for my Flexible Spending Account (FSA) because mine and my wife’s cards had been shut off for an unknown reason. My experience thus far with FSA h...
Ruby on Rails on a Windows machine. Challenge accepted!
From my limited understanding, Ruby on Rails is a web application platform used to create cool web applications like Basecamp from 37Signals. I want to create cool web applications too an...
Ignite Charlotte!
Ignite is an ongoing series of speedy presentations. They range from building multi-person pogo sticks to hacking Chocolate. Each speaker gets only 5 minutes and 20 slides that auto advan...
More Access to the Internet?
What would it be like if school aged children had More Access to the Internet? Would it make a difference in their lives?