My first React Native App

Why did I write a React Native app? I’ve always been language agnostic, there’s no single language that rules them all. Each language has its feel, syntax, purpose, and style. There are languages that prefer a functional programming style, others that prefer objects. There are stateless and stateful paradigms. While the time involve was brief, …

CSS inliners

At the moment, I’m working with a company where I’m handling their email templates. One tool I found to be very useful are CSS inliners. I won’t be discussing Inky templates in this post. I’ve been using https://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/tools/css-inliner/ and for the most part, it works perfect. The only down side is that I have to …

Skills, degrees, or product?

In the recent explosion of technology and all the varying degrees of “skills” that result from it. I feel a little overwhelmed. I am from a time where tech was essentially Apache, HTML, Javascript, CSS, and some sort of language that supports dynamic generation of HTML aka, DHTML. Then with every language there’s it’s evolving …

Perfection Paralysis

I’ve spent more than a decade in professional software development. I’ve seen and fought this demon time and time again. The demon’s name is Perfection Paralysis. It’s quite the beast. When you have so many eyes reviewing and critiquing your code, you want to be the best you can possibly be. You want your code …

Everything competes with everything…

I think it’s easy to think narrowly. It’s easy to think that if you’re in the restaurant business, you’re not competing against the car business. But, if you think about the fact that people have finite disposable income, then money spent on food, is money not spent on cars. I think, with the advent of …

Enable Infinite Homepage Scrolling on Note 4 (rooted Android 6.0)

So! My loyalty to the Note 4 at this point is borderline fanatical. Samsung has YET to make a better phone, in fact, neither has Apple. I’ve recently bought a Verizon Note 4 to replace my T-mobile Note 4, since Verizon allows me to use both T-mobile and Verizon, but the T-mobile version wouldn’t work …