About 9 hours ago I dandered down the road to see what was happening at the FlackNite event being hosted in Farset Labs.
When I finally got myself settled down with network access and a cup of coffee and said hello to everyone it seemed I was the only one without a project to work on. [...]
I’ve often joked about putting together an app to track my coffee consumption, such is my reputation for consuming the black goodness. Like a lot of my other personal projects, the idea had a prolonged gestation period and was finally born through a welcome spark of motivation.
Crafting fine web APIs
Over the past 6 months [...]
I was on-site with Vigill one day before Christmas and I mentioned to Oisin an idea I had for an app.
I was sick of having endless tabs open in Chrome, hogging memory, each one some seeming important enough at the time that I read it but now just a contextless enigma.
If I at least knew [...]
Quite often I feel the need to learn something new for the sake of learning something new. Covey aficionados would know this as sharpening the saw.
I usually struggle deciding upon something however as there are so many areas to choose from in the software world and it isn’t everyday I feel drawn enough to something [...]
After last week’s great Xcake meet I felt a fresh surge to take on new challenges and bend some less-familiar pieces of technology to my will.
Motivation
The first product of this enthusiasm was a prototype web app built to get a bit more experience with Python and Google App Engine. A few days later it got [...]