June 11, 2010

Writing and Regular Expressions

Just write. That’s what the blog post told me to do to get better at writing so that’s what I’m doing. I’m writing whatever comes into my head and I’m giving myself permission to fail. Permission to write junk that won’t be useful for anything but fodder for the delete button. I keep reminding myself [...]

June 4, 2010

The Call to Creativity

The tedious tasks are not always the low hanging fruit. The reason tedious tasks persist is that the water is muddy. Our vision is blurry. Our view is cloudy. However the underlying truths in solving all tasks still remain. Namely that seeing the real problems, finding discreet steps, exploring unconventional options, and persistence in breaking [...]

March 13, 2010

jQuery, Dealing with Checkboxes

This post will show you how to get checkbox values with jQuery and how to set checkbox values with jQuery. In my application I wanted to have two checkboxes and when one box was unchecked to check the other checkbox (to always keep one check box checked) But I didn’t want to use radio buttons. [...]

February 14, 2010

Flying over the Rockies

As I write this, I’m in a 737 flying over the Rocky mountains on my way home from a long week in Denver, Colorado. When you think about all the infrastructure that is in place to facilitate a flight from one US city to another it boggles the mind. Not just software and hardware; but [...]