I can assure you that people believe you have skills that you don’t actually have. They also don’t know about some great skills that you do have. These phenomena are a result of personal marketing efforts–whether intended or unconscious. Owning concepts The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout contain a [...]
The four noble truths in Buddhism are, approximately: Life is suffering. The origin of suffering is attachment, due to ignorance. The cessation of suffering is attainable. The eight-fold path leads to liberation. I was coding happily along, and realized in a flash of insight that this applied to what I was working on. In coding, [...]
Have you ever scheduled something and then remembered you had another appointment? Have you ever had a big block of time or energy and wasted it, neither resting nor accomplishing anything? Earlier this year I started a new near-weekly ritual. I used a tool that I found useful in college for busy weeks. The fold [...]
Ultimate Website My biggest accomplishment of the year so far has been creating a new website for Ultimate (Frisbee) in the Indianapolis area. I got a basic concept going one Saturday morning, took feedback and talked to stakeholders, and then made a final version with the help of others in Indy. Notable improvements include: pictures [...]
Have you have heard me talk about something and think it would make a good blog post? Do you think I would have interesting thoughts on a subject and would like to read them? I have a large backlog of post ideas and musings that I write about, but there’s really no priority to the [...]
When you have something like // connect to database code code code This might be an indicator that you can extract the code under the comment into a separate method to make things clearer and more modular. For example: public Connection connectToDatabase(necessary parameters) { code code code } This is nice because it is just [...]
I whipped together a quick video to somewhat explain this idea. video platform video management video solutions video player I forgot to mention the GTK+ UVC Viewer, which is what I used to record using the webcam on Ubuntu. It was excellent. With Kaltura (open source version), you can host it on their CDN, or [...]
