Blog Posts

• 22 Mar 2012 »Test First as System 2 Thinking
• 01 Mar 2012 »What's in my Side Project Queue?
• 30 Jan 2012 »Repeating Background Textures in Android
• 27 Jan 2012 »Let's build a Ruby mocking framework! Sorta...kinda?
• 26 Dec 2011 »One Developer-Year in Review: 2011
• 05 Dec 2011 »Global Day of Code Retreat Recap
• 04 Dec 2011 »What's on your Learning List?
• 27 Nov 2011 »Overcoming Momentum
• 12 Nov 2011 »Weapon of Choice
• 02 Nov 2011 »Engineering - Over/Under: I'm a Serial Over Committer
• 24 Oct 2011 »Get Better
• 17 Oct 2011 »Web Development Kata - Tweet Viewer
• 16 Oct 2011 »The Applebee's of Software Development
• 13 Oct 2011 »SEP Blog Off
• 13 Oct 2011 »Intrapreneurship: Applying the Lean Startup to building internal tools
• 01 Oct 2011 »Podcast Roundup III
• 22 Sep 2011 »My take on interviewing and the hiring process
• 29 Aug 2011 »SDC Chicago Talk Takeaways
• 21 Aug 2011 »Update on Lanyon + Cross-domain AJAX POSTs with CORS
• 23 Jul 2011 »Making a commit with the Github API
• 18 Jul 2011 »Lessons Learned from SEP's Internal Startup Weekend
• 09 Jul 2011 »Digging around the Github v3 API
• 18 Jun 2011 »Startup Weekend Tip & Tricks
• 16 May 2011 »Podcast Roundup II
• 01 Mar 2011 »Managing Python libraries across git projects
• 22 Feb 2011 »How HackerNews ruined my morning
• 22 Nov 2010 »Weekly Noise 4 Recap - Glorified Screensaver - Post Mortem
• 14 Nov 2010 »Weekly Noise 3 Recap/Weekly Noise 4 - Hitting a roadblock
• 08 Nov 2010 »Weekly Noise 3 - "So it's like a screensaver..." (Part II)
• 07 Nov 2010 »Weekly Noise 2 Recap - alert("It's working!");
• 03 Nov 2010 »Building a Javascript web app, or sipping the node.js koolaid
• 31 Oct 2010 »Weekly Noise 2 - "So it's like a screensaver..."
• 31 Oct 2010 »Weekly Noise - Week 1 Recap
• 28 Oct 2010 »Podcast Roundup
• 24 Oct 2010 »Weekly Noise - Week 1
• 17 Oct 2010 »Hello world

Talks

• 15 Mar 2012 »Lightning Talk: Team-based Git Workflow (that doesn't suck)
• 19 Jan 2012 »Redis: Swiss Army Knife - Indy Software Artisans
• 29 Nov 2011 »Building an SEP API - Brownbag
• 20 Oct 2011 »Javascript Day: Node + Visualization Libraries - Indy ALT.NET
• 28 Sep 2011 »Heedful Programming - Brownbag
• 23 Aug 2011 »Dive into Node.js - Brownbag
• 16 Jun 2011 »Writing with Markdown - Indy ALT.NET
• 02 May 2011 »Writing with Markdown - Brownbag
• 24 Mar 2011 »NoSQL Rundown - Brownbag

Book Writeups

• 01 Apr 2012 »What I've Learned From Failure
• 01 Apr 2012 »The Wisdom of Crowds
• 25 Jan 2012 »Driving Technical Change
• 07 Jan 2012 »Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
• 01 Dec 2011 »The Art of Readable Code
• 01 Dec 2011 »Agile Retrospectives
• 04 Aug 2011 »Ship It!
• 04 Jul 2011 »Little Bets
• 02 Jul 2011 »Inspired
• 09 Jun 2011 »Personal Kanban
• 30 May 2011 »Startups Open Sourced
• 17 Apr 2011 »Moonwalking with Einstein
• 05 Dec 2010 »Envisioning Information
• 02 Nov 2010 »More Joel on Software
• 28 Oct 2010 »Getting Real
• 27 Oct 2010 »Hackers & Painters
• 26 Oct 2010 »Pro Git
• 26 Oct 2010 »Apprenticeship Patterns
• 25 Oct 2010 »Pragmatic Programmer

Projects

Random side-projects, in various states of completion

2012 »

• Morale: Daily team mood tracking via email (Rails/Capistrano/Nginx/Unicorn)
• Planning Poker: Android app for conducting agile Planning Poker exercises

2011 »

• abe: Abraham Lincoln? Isn't he the President who...
• Netflix It Now: Bookmarklet and small webapp to tell me when movies became streamable
• dasher: Company status dashboard, built with Node
• lanyon: WYSIWYG editor for Jeykll powered blogs, hooked directly into the Github API
• CloutBout: Fantasy sports for Twitter, built in under 36 hours for SDC Chicago 2011 Hackathon
• WhooWho!: Lean CRM with recommendations, built at SEP Startup Weekend Summer 2011
• bibliotechnical: Programming book recommendation site
• LandingPad.rb: Landing page app, deployed on Heroku using Sinatra + MongoDB

2010 »

• Glorified Screensaver: Real-time announcement board built with Node.js, socket.io, and three.js.
• StackTracker: Cross-platform desktop notifier for the StackExchange API.
• Duel of Tweets: Head-to-head polls conducted over Twitter, built in under 36 hours for SDC Chicago 2010 Hackathon.
• flask-embedly: Flask extension that adds Embedly support to templating.
• autocastr: Automatically download and partition podcasts into CD-R sized folders.
• Mongo Overflow: Small StackOverflow clone with a mongoDB backend.
• Bumps: OBD-II iPhone logging application and server, used for pothole detection research.