Response to 7 questions to find your purpose in life
What is my "Why?" or "Response to 7 Strange Questions That Help You Find Your Life Purpose"This post is in response to 7 STRANGE QUESTIONS THAT HELP YOU FIND YOUR LIFE PURPOSE1. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE...
View ArticleWhat I really liked about "So Good They Can't Ignore You" and other ramblings
So, it's been about 2 years since I picked this book up and read it cover to cover (so to speak, I had the ebook which I devoured) in about a week.First, I want to explain a bit about where I was in my...
View ArticleDay 1 of 30 Min Project 12/15/14
Endeavoring to document an experiment I’m going to try. Live-blogging (kind of) my daily habit of working on a side project for 30 minutes a night.This particular side project is a deep dive into...
View ArticleA new experiment - Live Coding
First, before I dive into this experiment, I want to explain what I’ve been up to. I call them 30 minute projects.30 Minute ProjectsA while ago I read this post by John Resig - Write Code Every Day, it...
View ArticleDay 2 of 30 Min Project 12/16/14
Tonight:See if we can get at least a first version of the api pushed up to githubWhat do we need for that to happen?Need to convert the settings over to convict instead of homegrown thingAlright, I...
View ArticleDay 3 of 30 Min Project 12/17/14
Tonight:Finish up with convict setup and see what other unused references I have in the APIOK, think I have this all set, just committed master branch...
View ArticleDay 4 of 30 Min Project 12/18/14
Uggh, not really feeling it tonight, but here goes :P.Tonight:So, said last night that here’s what I needed to do:time to start creating some tests!Use tests to drive the api bits forward for...
View ArticleDay 5 of 30 Min Project 12/19/14
Tonight:So, said last night that here’s what I needed to do:Get at least one test written and running (not necessarily passing, but running)We have a few controllers/endpoints we need to test/token -...
View ArticleDay 6 of 30 Min Project 12/20/14
Tonight:So, said last night that here’s what I needed to do:Get redis config stuff figured outApparently convict really doesn’t like empty json variables like options: {}Get first test to actually fail...
View ArticleDay 7/8 of 30 Min Project 12/22/14
Missed yesterday due to friends being in town and prepping for our annual holiday trip.Tonight:gulp mocha isn’t finishing properly. I know I handled this somewhere :Pahh, using exit and pipe the...
View ArticleWeek 1 of 30 Min Project 12/22/14
Made some decent progress last week. Got 6/7 days done, not bad for the first week. Hoping to be able to keep this up over our holiday break, which might be a bit tricky some days, but hoping to make...
View ArticleDay 9 of 30 Min Project 12/23/14
Tonight:Figure out why the startup isn’t happening on time nowClearly I’m misunderstanding gulp flow a bit here as there are some things that aren’t happening in the right order with my new setup test...
View ArticleDay 13 of 30 Min Project 12/27/14
Missed Days 10 - 12 due to Christmas and family stuff (12/24 - 12/26)Today:Figure out why convict isn’t respecting my env variable for PORT so that everything runs rightOK, one weird thing is that the...
View ArticleWeek 2 - 2015 1/04/15 - 1/11/15
Decided to do things a little bit differently and publish this as a weekly update kind of thing instead of each day as I didn’t like all the posts separated (and a few too many IMO). This week I’ll try...
View ArticleWeek 3 - 2015 1/12/15 - 1/18/15
This week:Finish up API endpointsStart on web/angular side of projectDay 1 1/12/15Today:PUT /todos/:id - update a todoOK, got this working with a basic...
View ArticleWeek 4 - 2015 1/19/15 - 1/25/15
This week:Finish up Angular front-endDay 1 1/19/2015Today:Figure out why my constants aren’t being loaded/injected properly, file is there, but it just isn’t working...
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Writing Exercise - Sleight Of Hand
Write a brief story in which the major event or action is obscured— or easily overlooked— because of a splashier, more visible event. Sleight of hand, or the French phrase leger de main, means crafty...
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Writing Exercise - The Reluctant I
Write a first-person story in which you use the first-person pronoun (I or me or my) only two times— but keep the I somehow important to the narrative you’re constructing. The point of this exercise is...
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Writing Exercise - Associative Logic
Use associative logic in a narration a child tells to an adult. The child can be any age between five and ten. The story itself is a dramatic monologue. Don’t let us hear the adult’s questions or...
View ArticleWriting Exercises
I’ve been doing writing exercises off and on but never with a clear purpose in mind, just “write more". I recently read about a book called “3 A.M. Epiphany" which was chock full of exercises so I...
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