YouTube is awesome, but the tools they give to content creators leaves a bit or room for improvement. As I started producing my video series for Qubed Peas I realized I needed a more personally organized way to display the collections and groups to my…
The complexity of the files in a Web Application require a clear mental map. The “file system” that computers and files have been organized around for years is definitely an old concept, but for developers one that is an absolute. There was no reason to…
I just finished doing something I always wondered about: I removed all of my apps from the App Store shelves. It’s time. I’ve dreaded doing it, but my support for each has waned over recent months as I forge new paths. My time with each…
I was working on QubedPeas a bit lately and needed a semi-complete system to run tests against. The relationships I was testing dealt with everything from URLs to dynamic rewriting and since there were so many changes happening I thought I’d make sure my test…
I’ve been working on creating a generalized navigation controller that I will release as a Pea Pack (more on that later). Basically this is a general distributable component that any web system can use immediately. I set out to create a reasonably simple interface so…
Okay, this is highly subjective, but I’m going to drop my preferences here to setting up a bash environment. I use this for OSX but also share most of it in my unix/linux environments as well. First, you want to be IN CONTROL. So let’s…
I had so much trouble figuring out what was what when switching languages that I decided to make a really simple map to them. Maybe it will help someone else:
This is a simple one. I thought I’d pull together a printable 2014 NFL Playoff bracket. Simple and attractive. Enjoy 2014_playoff_bracket
I’ve been spending all of my personal time working on a rather complicated system to help improve development in JavaScript/HTML. One of the steps of the deployment process is to “minify” or “collapse” CSS (JS is a whole other topic). I had high hopes for…
This one is so simple it’s crazy to write a post about it. At this time, go to http://nodejs.org/ and download the installer and install that way. Extra credit: There is one little extra tool you will may want and it’s called Homebrew. This is…