One of the funnest and most personal projects I’ve worked is So There’s That, a lifestyle blog with professional photographer and my financee Charla Avery. For some reason I’ve picked up in the chatter out there that lifestyle blogs, if they must be used at all, are like a “starter” or something that every...
Community Matters at WordCamp
Things are always better when you do it in a team. That is, at least, the lesson that I have learned again and again, and again. Sure, someone could code a full website by themselves from start to finish. I have a few projects right now that I am building by myself, at least...
Coding from the inside out
“Technology… is the status of the current.” Imagine that you are locked up for some crime you committed – even worse, imagine you are in a juvenile detention, a young person with most of your life before you and yet there seems to be nowhere to go. Once out of juvenile detention, what do...
If it’s Tuesday, it must be Ruby
Some weeks ago I sat in a meeting with an elected official who, having been recently reelected to the office, was nonetheless interested in running for an entirely different office. Now, like many people in this cynical business and unlike most of the public, I am not opposed at all to an elected official...