Reality Distortion Field : 17 Companies’ Sitrep

I’m sitting on the bus this morning. As happens almost every day of the week. I’m flipping pages, sort of, it’s an eBook on my Kindle App. I’m reading about Steve Jobs taking over the Macintosh Program at Apple. How things started to fall into place for Apple, for the Macintosh, and how Jobs saw... Continue reading →

Why Clean Code Seriously Matters!

The first example is some working code, that determines if a date value is a weekend day and returns true or false based on that. bool firstSecondNulls = false; var dayOfWeek = (DateTime) zeros.ElementAtOrDefault(i).BalanceDate; if (dayOfWeek.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday || dayOfWeek.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday) firstSecondNulls = true; return firstSecondNulls; This second example also provides the same result,... Continue reading →

Fini – Geoloqi + CivicApps + TriMet + Awesome Coders == Great Weekend

The Geoloqi + CivicApps Hackathon is all wrapped up and it has been great! I got to meet a number of new people and we all literally got a number of things done. The bus app, is practically done, and there are oodles of ideas primed and ready. New SDKs will be coming from the... Continue reading →

Your Bus Is NOT Here! But We’re Working On It…

But myself and fellow hacker & Geoloqi Crew put something together to figure out where the bus is. Nothing super fancy, but the idea is solid. We wanted to get a simple mobile application put together that would identify where it is, what the closest bus stop is, and pull up the next arriving bus(es)... Continue reading →