Programmers solve problems and most of the time use a keyboard to do so. I firmly believe you need to be able to efficiently express yourself through typing. There’s probably nothing more fundamental in programming than being able to think of something and expressing it in code without losing your train of thought. I say… Continue reading Touch Typing and Programming
Author: jpadilla
Juice Box
A month ago I decided to take another stab at proposing a solution to allow all of us to keep working on great programming workshops. Personally, the biggest headache in each and every one of the workshops that I have organized or participated in is the time and effort it takes to configure and setup… Continue reading Juice Box
Mako & Oliver
Three weeks ago today, on an unfortunate accident, Mako my 6 year old Siberian Husky escaped from home, and we noticed just a couple of hours later. After endless hours, driving around different possible routes, talking to people, calling out his name, posting hundreds of flyers, hundreds of people sharing on Facebook and Twitter, we… Continue reading Mako & Oliver
Top 20 Hacker and Designer News 2014
Last year around this same date I started The Hacker and Designer News newsletter as a weekly curated recap of the what I thought were the best articles from Hacker News and Designer News on startups, entrepreneurship, hacks, programming, design, etc. I built and open sourced an aggregator to help me collect posts. I later built news.hdn.io using that same… Continue reading Top 20 Hacker and Designer News 2014
File Uploads + CORS + IE
Supporting Internet Explorer is always kind of a drag, but sometimes you just have to. Adding to the mixture file uploads via AJAX and CORS only make it that much more fun. When dealing with AJAX file uploads I always seem to keep going back to jQuery File Upload. Making these file uploads work on… Continue reading File Uploads + CORS + IE