2 years ago, on June 16, I posted my first Colorado Tech Weekly. A year ago I reflected on what I learned so I figured since I’m still going and the last reflection was fun I’d do it again. 5 things I’ve learned in no particular order You need style AND substance to succeed – Colorado… Continue reading What I’ve learned about the Colorado tech community after Year 2 of CTW
I have been going at almost top speed since the beginning of March and I’ve finally let off the throttle just enough to realize I have not documented my cool things as much as I would like. Being ambitious means that any free time I have is either spent moving forward or resting. I haven’t… Continue reading It’s Hard To Find Time To Reflect When You’re This Ambitious
The biggest reason for my website, my blog and my Colorado Tech Weekly posts is to get noticed by influential people in the Colorado technology community. So how excited am I that my name was included in a BuiltinColorado list of “50 Colorado tech CEOs, founders, designers & hackers you should follow on Twitter”? I’m… Continue reading I was recognized as a “People to Follow” by BuiltinColorado!
(I’ve had this blog post in my drafts folder for almost a year, it’s about time I actually write it.) Everywhere I turn I’m being told that I need more. I’m told I should have more friends and like more pages on Facebook. I should have more connections on LinkedIn. I should have a bigger… Continue reading Quality of Visitors over Quantity of Visitors
One of my ideas behind my website was to chronicle some of my experiences of becoming a developer. My Colorado Tech Weekly posts were just supposed to get people to come to my site to see all the cool things I was doing. Instead, my CTW posts have become my main content. It’s time to… Continue reading Taking Stock of My Progress
Monday is the beginning of the 2014 Denver Startup Week. This is DSW’s third iteration and it’s turning into quite the big deal. In the spirit of my Colorado Tech Weekly posts, here are 10 links from local tech news sources and companies to get you ready for this week! 10 Awesome Denver Startup Week… Continue reading 10 links to get you ready for Denver Startup Week
Monday starts the 2014 Denver Startup Week, a week to celebrate and encourage tech startups in and around Denver. This makes now a perfect time for me to rant about how software development is taught. We need to shift our focus from “How to write code” to “How to make an app”. I have an… Continue reading Let’s teach people how to make apps, not just write code
With technology, we are creating things that are unweildly to name. We have web sites that are more like apps but their not just web apps. We have mobile apps that connect to a greater system so they’re more than just mobile apps. We have desktop software that is more than the bytes on your… Continue reading My Tour of Galvanize Boulder
In 2013, I started volunteering as the computer lab monitor for Mortensen Elementary after school. The school likes having me there because of my computer science background, so I’m going to make use of that background to teach kids how to code. All updates to this project can be found on the main project page.… Continue reading Hey Colorado tech companies! I need your convention swag!
Since I’m not sure about what kind of developer I want to be, I decided I would pick different languages/frameworks/etc and try them on for size. I chose to try out Ruby on Rails since it seems to be one of the most popular ways to create dynamic interactive web sites. It’s used in sites… Continue reading Book Review: “Ruby on Rails Tutorial” by Michael Hartl