Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I can’t believe 2012 is already wrapping up and with New Years just around the corner I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. I’ll have a “Year in Review” post up in the first week of 2013 and I’m looking forward to writing a [...]

A lot of people create life goals and never complete them. Sometimes they feel the goals are too lofty and impossible to complete while other times the people are either lazy or just forget. After working on my procrastination by being more accountable I thought I’d try that with my life goals. Hopefully by writing [...]

On Saturday April 14th, 2012, Terence and Myself participated in our third HackDays event, HackTO. While we didn’t do as well as previous events I still had a great time. Here’s a few thoughts on the event.

One of the best ways to continue learning is to take part in hackathons. You’re thrown into a group of developers and told to make something with a limited amount of time. Sometimes you’re provided with APIs or a specific instruction set on what to make and other times it’s up to you. I’ve always found [...]

I’ve always enjoyed going to meetups, conferences and other tech events and lately I’ve wanted to give back to these communities by giving talks on things I found interested. The problem is, I always worried that what I found interesting other people would find boring. I would think of great talk ideas but always chicken [...]

After 6 months of procrastinating I finally got around to writing more articles. After DjangoCon in September 2011 there was an increase in readers to the site. As these numbers started dying down I became discouraged and stopped writing. Since I started writing again this month I’ve noticed a large increase in readers, comments and discussions [...]

I subscribe to many different blogs, podcasts, websites and services and because of this I receive a lot of email. On an average day I receive between 200-300 emails from these services and without proper filtering it would become unmanageable extremely quick. Every few months I have to go through and cull these lists, unsubscribing [...]

I frequently buy social coupons from sites like Groupon, LivingSocial and WagJag. A few nights ago I tried to go to a Local burger company because I had bought a coupon for it from WagJag. I don’t have a printer at home so I went in with my cell phone and the coupon loaded and tried [...]

Yesterday was my former boss’ last day at the job after working here for 11 years. Instead of getting him a large comical card that everyone in the office signs (we have multiple offices around the globe) we decided to create a web page where employees could sign a virtual wall, as well as view embarrassing photos [...]

One thing I always get asked at local hackathons, developer conferences and networking events is where I live. Once I tell them I don’t live in the city, and actually have an hour commute both ways, I always get asked why? Here’s a few of the reasons I chose to commute instead of live in [...]