1. Refactor Songs and Code

    I love to write code. It’s the only activity I’ve found that gives me the same buzz as writing a song. Here are some thoughts on similarities between writing code and writing a song. …


  2. The Clean Coder

    I recently read an excellent book called The Clean Coder written by Robert C. Martin, a.k.a. Dr. Bob. I wanted to share a few excellent points that stuck with me. …


  3. Front-end is icing on the cake

    Our students have 4-6 main projects that they create both individually and as a group during their time in WDI. One thing I preach to my students is process over product. Here are a few take-a-ways from a project week sprint that I feel are more valuable than having the most awesome project. Did the student… …


  4. jquery append() v. appendTo()

    As an exercise, I started creating a tic-tac-toe game in Codepen using Javascript and jQuery only (no HTML or CSS). The difference between append() and appendTo() is pretty straightforward, but I’d never really come across a sufficent reason to use one over the other until I started building my game. I had a interesting realization I wanted to share. …


  5. rails + angular + bower

    Rails provides an excellent backend for your Javascript front-end framework. …


  6. Gear Freaks

    There are gear freaks in both the music and tech worlds. …


  7. Python + Ruby Differences

    I’m taking a Data Science course that incorporates Python. I thought I’d write a quick + dirty summary of some key (cool) differences between the two languages. Forgive me if the syntax is slightly off as I’m writing this from memory. …


  8. Taylor Swift HTML

    in progress…


  9. Why Fire Ready Aim?

    I’ve wanted to set-up Jekyll for a while to blog about my musical and development ramblings. I see a lot of similarities between the musical and development worlds. …