Earlier this week after I woke up, I saw that my computer was on. At first I thought it was playing a video but didn't understand why it would be. Anyway, after a purchase was made on Amazon to the tune of $500 I noticed it was logged in to …

Synaptik Labs

I uploaded another video to the "Start Page 2.0" series. Overall, I think this is the best video of the series so far. It is still a bit boring, but I was able to actually move forward this time.

Code Along Blog

Dwayne and I streamed again …

Synaptik Labs

I uploaded another video this past week for the Start Page 2.0 project. I made more mistakes and at the very end I couldn't solve a problem I was having. After a day of rest I was able to figure out the issue pretty quickly and, just …

Synaptik Labs

This week I uploaded the second video to the "Start Page 2.0" project. I feel a little better about it, but I honestly think I'm incredibly boring to watch. I'm hoping over time I loosen up a bit and show the person my family sees every day …

Synaptik Labs

Two weeks ago I wrote about an idea I had for recording 30-ish minute videos and posting them without much editing. The project I decided on was to enhance my start page application to store data in a database. I explained the reasons for this in the video …

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 …