It has been almost 3 years now and I am pain free in my wrist and arm. As a life long computer user, I developed pain in my forearm and shoulder blades as part of my RSI (repetitive stress injury) diagnosis. After visiting doctors, trying to rest, and modifying my work and posture habits, I …
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We are surrounded by technology. Whether you think it is great or a distraction it really has crept into every part of our lives. Today we communicate with each other using smartphone apps, select movie from our couch after viewing a sprawling menu of movie theatre posters, order our gifts via websites without leaving our …
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As a teacher and mentor you often get an email from a former student that contains the phrase “you probably don’t remember me….” They often then contain a request for a letter of reference which, if they were a good student, I gladly oblige. There are others that reach out to me for guidance and …
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When you hear the words “Star Wars”, what comes to mind? Jedi, light sabres, space duels and…. droids like BB-8 and R2D2. When Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit the theaters in 2016 we met the latest addition to a long line of interesting characters with one being a particular droid, BB-8. We then got …
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Do you have a Mom? Um…don’t answer that. As I glanced down at my calendar app on my phone it hit me, 2018 is here. This summer I turn a year older but feel like 25 and if you ask my wife, some days I act like I am 12!! LoL. But as I sat …
Stranger Things And Bob Coding BASIC My daughter called out to me from our family room, “hey Dad, you have to see this scene from Stranger Things”! There is a character named Bob Newby, played by Sean Astin, telling another character that to hack into the system you need to know BASIC. BASIC is earlier …
The Best Toys To Teach Kids How To Code I am amazed at all the great coding toys that have come out this year. There are so many to choose from and it is hard to pick so let me help you out. I have a list here but I also have 5 areas to …
Machine learning and will robots take control? “Some day software will write itself and we won’t need programmers.” This was said by my freshman computer science teacher to us as computer science students in 1986. Here we are in 2017 and software is still not writing itself or is it? If you …
How To Build A Webpage Using HTML Hypertext Markup Language or HTML is not an easy sounding phrase nor a technology that remotely sounds like ‘fun’ but it is at the core of so much we do on the internet today. Let me give you a peek into what this technology is and how you …
5 Tips That Will Propel Your Coding Career As I sit over 10,000 feet in the sky aboard a jet plane looking out the window heading to a great conference called Momentum 2017, I started to reflect on my time in tech and how I have arrived at this point in my career. Read along …