There is an upcoming ALT.NET Portland Meetup happening at e-Discovery in downtown Portland. The meetup is happening on the 13th of October. There are several ideas behind this meetup, but I’m going to lay out my personal reasons here. I’m working diligently to distribute my skills in multiple development stacks. I use Ruby on Rails,... Continue reading →

A few days ago, my friend Aeden Jameson asks, “you want to work through a code kata this weekend?” I thought, well yeah, that’d be cool. So we met at Cafe Fiore and hacked out the beginning of a Kata based on the Roman to Arabic and Arabic to Roman Numerals. It was fun, which... Continue reading →

Recently I wanted some string manipulations that just weren’t available with plain JavaScript. I went digging and came up with the Underscore.js Library. It was a little confusing at first, and the string library is an extension of Underscore.js. At first it sounded like there were two Underscore.js Libraries, but finally I got it figured... Continue reading →

This evening at the Cafe Racer Ruby on Rails meetupI knocked out these specific tasks. Kilt Lifter by Pike Brewing Company Drank a solid tasty Kilt Lifter. Created a sample beginning application, with standard migrations, and errata, and made two simple models with respective scaffolding. Deployed the beginnings of a sample application to Heroku. Deployed... Continue reading →

I’ve been developing in my spare time on Mac OS-X using Rubymine, Webstorm, TextMate, XCode, and several other apps. I’ve also been using Kindle (the native app and the HTML5 Version), Tweetdeck, and a host of other applications. A bulk of things I’ve also been using, however they’re almost entirely in Chrome/HTML5 or some web... Continue reading →