My dream job is to be a Software Engineer at Sphero, so after getting some advice on where to start I have decided to make my own Sphero app. First comes the fun part though. It’s time to play and see what this little round thing can do. There are […]
Definition of a hackathon flame-out: A hackathon flame-out occurs when a participant gets so frustrated and discouraged that they leave the hackathon before it ends. This weekend I took time off of work to participate in the Pebble Rocks Boulder Hackathon. The hackathon is described as “seventy-five bold designers, developers, […]
2 years ago, on June 16, I posted my first Colorado Tech Weekly. A year ago I reflected on what I learned so I figured since I’m still going and the last reflection was fun I’d do it again. 5 things I’ve learned in no particular order You need style […]
With Christmas break in between my classes at Regis, I decided to do a little more playing on my own. I’ve decided to poke at the Twitter REST API since I use Twitter a ton and have some issues with how it works. Creating my own app that references the […]
Monday starts the 2014 Denver Startup Week, a week to celebrate and encourage tech startups in and around Denver. This makes now a perfect time for me to rant about how software development is taught. We need to shift our focus from “How to write code” to “How to make […]
My goal is to have a software/web/app development job by 2016, so one year ago yesterday I started Colorado Tech Weekly to keep myself up-to-date on what was happening in the technology community in Colorado. I turned it into a blog because I knew that if I wanted to know […]
Last week I got to spend the day at the Colorado Technology Association’s APEX Conference in Denver. Going as a student is the best way to visit a technology conference. It was full of professionals eager to share their knowledge and their projects and as a student who isn’t hirable yet, there […]
06/11/13 – I went to my first Colorado Technology Association (CTA) event on Tuesday. It was a presentation on cloud computing hosted by CTA, OCx Networks and Nebula, Inc. with Chris Kemp, co-founder of Nebula, Inc. as the keynote speaker. The audience was a fun mix of sales representatives and […]