Work

At work we hook into 3rd party applications for various things. One of these things is to handle our user authentication and login. Unfortunately, when this piece of the application doesn't work, development grinds to a halt until the other team can get that application back up and running …

Synaptik Labs

Nothing new here other than some thoughts I had. I create two kinds of videos:

1. one-off tutorial videos
2. a video as part of a series where I build something.

Usually the videos are about 10 to 20 minutes long where I set out to accomplish a small task …

• CodeAlongBlog - On Monday, Dwayne and I streamed our work on the time component for the calendar, it looks very nice, but it feels awkward to use on a desktop. Later in the week, we got a simple website up and running. We're looking to expand our work to include an …

Brary

I spent some time this week trying to fix the speed issues and layout issues that I have been seeing. The major speed bottleneck in the initial page load was the call to fetch all of the documents. It took a few seconds to fetch a few thousand results …

• Brary - Earlier this week I worked on the magazine ingestion part of the process. This exposed several issues that I need to address:

  • Cover images sometimes aren't rendered. I'm not exactly sure why but for some reason the API call to fetch the data for the particular magazine issue doesn't …

• Date Range Picker - I grabbed this task at work last week and finally wrapped it up this week. Prior to this, our picker was modal-based and very small compared to the rest of the screen so it looked a bit empty. The new picker, in my opinion, looks very nice …