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At The End of the Road
At The End of the Road
How to Truly Appreciate Everything that’s Given to You A week from today I fly back to the US. It’s been six-months. That isn’t too long of a trip, but long enough to miss seeing the people I love. I have never missed my bed, house, or neighborhood — those things have never felt important to me. Besides a few special people, a warm pot of collard greens with homemade hot-pepper vinegar is the…
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What Actually Makes Demos, MVPs and Full-products Different?
What Actually Makes Demos, MVPs and Full-products Different?
Definitions for Demos, MVPs and Full-builds to help you determine which one your startup needs Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels Word definitions are really, really important. When I ask the barista for my “large cold-brew, no milk and no sugar” each morning, 2-minutes later I’ll have exactly what I asked for. The reason that works isn’t because they are a barista or I am a cafe patron.…
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VueJS + Rails 5.2 |building advanced front-end functionality while staying organized
VueJS + Rails 5.2 |building advanced front-end functionality while staying organized
Until about 6-months ago our front-end was written in jQuery at RampEX. We relied on .erb templating for view rendering server side and then wrote Turbolinks compatible Javascript for any Ajax requirements or complex interactivity. For anyone familiar with RoR, you’re probably familiar with this setup – as it’s somewhat the default.
There were many great practices we discovered in writing code…
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Form Over Substance – Forget the Routine The old saying “he puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like you” is a solid truism.
The Adventurers | How Culture Shapes the Chances People Take
The Adventurers | How Culture Shapes the Chances People Take
I heard a great observation on Startup the other day. It went something like this:
“No one at GE remembers back when it was just them and Thomas Edison in their garage making light bulbs”
Now, here’s some context.
Startup’s season one episodes are monthly updates from its host, Alex, while building his first company. In a later episode, Alex and his partner are approached by a team from Google…
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Decentralized and disoriented | $60,000 Ethereum off the table
On January 18th, 2017, I decided not to invest in Ethereum. My original plan was to put $3,500 into the digital currency. Instead, I put that money into an NYSE listed stock. That was 5-months and 8-days ago. Had I said “go” instead of “no”, that $3,500 would have grown to $62,342 as of today. It’s not exactly FU money; though better than a regular Monday. In the Spring of 2013, the Cyprus…
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The I in AI
From my own extremely rudimentary understanding of it, Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems a somewhat misleading name for what could more accurately be dubbed Artificial Wisdom. Being programs sharpened by experience, and through that experience maturing to embody an almost 6th sense intuition within their respective fields.
Human intelligence is extremely fluid and perpetually being redefined…
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Test Driven Development: An obstacle or asset? It’s more likely than not that a novice Ruby developer will be urged to learn and practice TDD (test driven development).
A 7-Day Weather Forecast...seen from space
A 7-Day Weather Forecast…seen from space
WeatherRoomVR
Over the past few weeks I’ve dreamt up a dozen or so projects that would force me to better my data visualization skills. There are a ton of online tutorials for learning the basics in using libraries like D3, so I knocked a few of them out. However, none of those utilized data with any practical application.
The project I landed on was a WebVR weather app. It renders the 7-day…
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Update on Listening to Music in Virtual Reality
Update on Listening to Music in Virtual Reality
*If you missed it, check out my first demo of Koo-VR at this link
Since my last article where I demod a music player for virtual reality I’ve re-engineered the application in a way I’m very excited about. Why am I excited? Well, two reasons. The first is that it is now built with Angular and published to the web. And the second is that I’ve not been able to find any examples of WebVR experiences…
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Mobile Web Dev: Access Localhost on Android from OSX
Mobile Web Dev: Access Localhost on Android from OSX
Web developers will often want to view their projects on mobile. In both Chrome and Firefox, the developer console gives us the ability to mimic mobile views by setting screen size containers. It’s really not a comparable experience though to holding a phone while demoing.
The following guide is a trick that can be used to access a localhost server – hosted on a Mac – from an Android mobile…
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Virtual Reality Music Player: Visualizing Spotify's API
Virtual Reality Music Player: Visualizing Spotify’s API
For the past week, a friend (Holly Peck) and I have spent our leisure time building a virtual reality music player. This is the first demo we have to show – please feel free to give feedback as well as contribute to the code’s repository!
The project uses A-Frame. You’ll notice that the video is split-screen. This is because it was…
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Intro to A-Frame: Rendering a Cube
Intro to A-Frame: Rendering a Cube
Several weeks ago a colleague and I decided it would be worth our combined efforts to begin exploring virtual reality as developers. Slowly, we’ve begun patching together a curriculum of sorts that should ready us to tackle several passion projects in the near future. Being that there is limited learning material on VR available (relative to other technologies), I hope that logging my own trials,…
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Deploying a Rails App to Heroku - sqlite3 to postgres
Deploying a Rails App to Heroku – sqlite3 to postgres
*This link is to the Index Card Language Learning App I designed and built last week, which guided this article.
Heroku is easy to use. So easy that it feels like magic. It’s as though all you must do is put the round peg in the round hole. As long as you have the round peg everything goes smoothly.
For about six hours last Wednesday, I thought I had the round peg. Turns out that I didn’t! And…
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ActiveRecord Database Queries - Dissecting Joins in SQL
ActiveRecord Database Queries – Dissecting Joins in SQL
*All code examples written in-line will be contained by square brackets []
As databases grow, efficient querying becomes paramount. It’s easy to be sloppy in the beginning while racing to make something “work”. In the spirit of red, green, refactor though, we must revisit our methods and attempt at working off the fat.
Working with Rails allows us to conveniently communicate with our database.…
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The Art of Abstraction in Code
The Art of Abstraction in Code
We’re influenced to accept a divide between arts and sciences. A person’s bias towards one is often influenced by misunderstanding the other. Scientists are bound to rules and knowledge while artists are limited only by their imaginations. Most would agree with this. However, an artist’s brush is beholden to the same laws as any scientific invention. Meaning that the only true difference between…
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Conceptualizing Object-oriented Programming
Last week I began Flatiron School. No, it’s not to do with architecture. Campus occupies a large loft space at the southern most tip of Broadway Ave. It’s convenient to pat the Wall. St. bull along the commute. Once on campus I open my laptop, and code.
My journey as a developer started less than a year ago. What began a self taught endeavor quickly transitioned to night school, and now a full…
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