January 2012
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December 2011
1 post
For the holidays, I headed back to MI to spend time with family. And instead of flying the whole way, I decided to take a more scenic route. Flying to Chicago and then taking the train to Grand Rapids. Due to the timing of my flights and when the train leaves, I had a plenty of time to explore Chicago. This also meant I had plenty of “alone time.” As a result, a lot of cool things have...
November 2011
1 post
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
2 posts
“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer....”
– John Muir (via jmccartie)
May 2011
3 posts
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I had a lot of fun hanging with some friends at the climbing gym tonight. Started the night with some bouldering and I’m definitely noticing an improvement in my technique. Problems that before seemed to difficult just by looking at them, I am now at least able to make progress on.
After bouldering I got persuaded into some lead climbing. This is normally not a big deal, except that the...
“I guess you’re either headin’ somewhere or you’re endin’ up somewhere.”
– Book of James by We Are Augustines (via danieldemoss)
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February 2011
1 post
November 2010
4 posts
“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough...”
– Sam Levenson (via kmorey)
Type Talk at Work
Me: He's an "F" too, isn't he?
Tony: Ugh. I don't know. This place is being overrun by F's.
Me: What? It is not!
Tony: It's like the zombie apocalypse, but with hugs.
October 2010
2 posts
September 2010
4 posts
WatchEven though the sites I work on haven’t reached the scale of Facebook yet, it’s still very interesting to learn how they have solved some interesting problems and manage their infrastructure.
Etsy - John Allspaw
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I talked with John Allspaw about Etsy, Flickr and about the various aspects of WebOps. John also talks about his new book - ‘Web Operations’ and much more.
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A new opportunity
For almost the past four years I have had the great opportunity to serve on staff at Resurrection Life Church as their Web developer. Over that time I have been able to be apart of an awesome and talented team, working on a wide range of interesting projects. I have definitely learned a lot during this time. And even though working for a church can be a little difficult at times, (I know that...
5,000th time is the charm, right?
This feels like what is my 5,000th blogging attempt. Since I have had access to the internet I have made many attempts over the years to try and blog, but for some reason it would never last. It’s also hard, for me anyway, to write sometimes when you know no one is reading what you post.
But with some recent stuff going on with me, and stuff I am working on, I thought I would give this...
August 2010
1 post
Embedly →
A really cool service to convert almost any link into the correct embed code.
July 2010
1 post
php-mongodb-admin - GitHub →
A simple, single file, MongoDB admin utility written in PHP.
May 2010
4 posts
Thursday Keynote at Google I/O
Android 2.2 Released
Speed - JIT adds 2x-5x speed increase
Enterprise - New Exchange support (auto-discovery, security policies, GAL lookup, and device admin apis)
Application Database Backup API
Cloud-to-Device Messaging API - Allow you to trigger Android Intents through a message.
Tethering and Portable Hotspot support
Browser
V8 for Android - 2x-3x javascript performance
HTML5 Added...
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Beyond design: Creating positive user experiences
It has to be fast
Tip: Focus on latency
- Mozilla optimized their download ans shaved 2.2 seconds off the avg page-load time. Download conversion improved by 15.4%
Tools:
Pagetest - http://www.webpagetest.org
PageSpeed
YSlow
Example showing load times for Google. Yahoo, and Bing. Bing lost ;)
Speed is the most important feature - http://bit.ly/fred-speed
Tip: Provide shortcuts
-...
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Wednesday keynote at Google I/O
Just to note: this is very raw, wrote this as stuff happend.
Intro
People are spending more time on the web
- People using the Internet increase by 117%
Moving away from traditional desktop application and going toward web applications.
Web apps are becoming more powerful thanks to HTML5. Media, Graphics, Performance, Desktop Integration, Offline/Storage, and Networking.
MugTug
Project Dark...
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Google I/O
Wednesday and Thursday Google is having their Google I/O developers conference and I will be there! I figured it would also be a good time for me to try and start blogging again. So, I am hoping to blog during both of the keynotes and also during any of the sessions that I attend. I am looking forward to all of the things that will be announced and discussed these two days.
I will also be...