When’s the last time you went in for a checkup with your family doctor? Do you know what your cholesterol level is? Your blood pressure? It’s unfortunate that many people can’t answer those questions quickly and honestly. It usually takes a health scare to prompt people towards that dreaded waiting room with the stale air and old magazines.

Regular checkups are an essential part of healthy living, so why do we put them off? Why do we ignore symptoms? Is it because we’re too busy? Are we afraid of what we might find out?

Great, Scott! Even Doc may say we are in the future. Embedded devices and systems are everywhere and today almost every one of them is connected to the internet. Currently, there are over an estimated 8 billion connected devices transferring data and communicating via the internet and that number will continue to grow exponentially to an estimated over 27 billion by 2020. To put that number in perspective the population is estimated at 321 million in the United States and 7 billion in the world. Is anyone else thinking Skynet here?

Why Decorators?

It is an important question; one many tutorials rush past in their hurry to talk about the what and how. Of course, after being exposed to enough doses of what and how, you can usually piece together why, but in my experience it saves time to just hear it up front. I’d like to share one of the ways I’ve come to think about decorators and how it’s helped me think about when to use them.

The instant she told me, I knew with the feeling of faith that it was
true. “Charles,” she said gravely “You’ve got to build something
stupid, and you’ve got to do it really soon.”

Of course! Something stupid. Why didn’t I think of that.

It was so obvious why not: I was too busy thinking about
biznazz; too busy thinking about sales; too busy thinking
about accounting. Too busy thinking about things like office
furniture and hiring practices.

In high school, I spent a long time trying to learn how to build iOS
apps. After many months of attempting what seemed impossible at the time,
I decided to throw in the towel. So I gave up and to went to design,
which ultimately led to web work.

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In high school, I spent a long time trying to learn how to build iOS
apps. After many months of attempting what seemed impossible at the time,
I decided to throw in the towel. So I gave up and to went to design,
which ultimately led to web work.

Downfall of 2016

It’s Fall season but with the current state of the world, it certainly feels like an extinction event is just around the corner. Clowns, Hurricane Matthew, and our country’s infamous election has created a cold front of fear. Our social media feeds have been inundated in divisiveness and negativity. In the midst of this dark season, I had registered for Ruby DCamp and was ecstatic to disconnect from it all and attend my first DCamp experience.

Downfall of 2016

It’s Fall season but with the current state of the world, it certainly feels like an extinction event is just around the corner. Clowns, Hurricane Matthew, and our country’s infamous election has created a cold front of fear. Our social media feeds have been inundated in divisiveness and negativity. In the midst of this dark season, I had registered for Ruby DCamp and was ecstatic to disconnect from it all and attend my first DCamp experience.