BinarySkipper

Has it been a whole year since I posted last? Wow. I’ve been really busy building at Iron.io since I last left you here thinking I had died or lost my mind.

I thought it fitting that I be returning here since I’m going to do a little weekend foray into getting a leg up on my Go fundamentals, I sorta informally self taught myself a couple neat tricks but still default to node, ruby for most scripting projects tasks. If you are interested in following along -- Get all the material by installing go and then

This really caught my eye today when I came to www.ninefold.com website. 

It pretty brilliant to break up the vanilla horizontal sections with the use of a skillfully placed div. 

relevant code

html

<div class=my jumbotron"> <div class="shard"></div> </div>

css

.shard{

left: 0; z-index: 0; background-position: center left;

background-repeat: no-repeat;

position: absolute; width: 621px;

height: 373px;

background-image: url("../images/shard_l1.png");

bottom: 0;

}

but does it responsive?

yup! they simply moved the div more negative left as the media screen gets smaller

go to ninefold.com yourself it feels wonderful to flow down and not feel like your a flipping through a .pdf version of a powerpoint/keynote.

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This is a reposting/edit/update of my post yesterday. should've known that copying images from a gmail email to my tumblr was a no no AND I did it anyways. I fixed the images now, thanks for the messages all around telling me to fix my rookie tumblr postings... neways now that I'm here I might as well add some context.

 went to the http://a16z.com/

had a awesome time because 10+ DBC boots (CHICAGO/SF)

ate some amazing food. best food at a hackathon yet 100% worth our skills and time

won the foursquare prize which == eating food with the Head of Engineering at Foursquare

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Tabsquared gives venue managers realtime information about the people who are checking in. We wanted to take advantage of the real time venue push api and make it as useful as possible for the location manager. This would allow the manager/owner to know useful information that could have them react to the customer better. This would be especially great for a manager who is currently running a campaign but does not have time to access and analyze the manager dashboard.

Userflow:

auth via foursquare

enter phone number you wish to receive notification text for

verify that you own that number via verification code sent via sms

sit back and wait for people to check in

suggestions for the location manager

customer X has checked into your location more than X times looks like they are a regular! treat them nicely!

customer X who just checked in is very popular and loves to write tips!

customer X is from Fairfax, Virginia, thats pretty far from San Francisco, make sure you welcome them to the city!

  We think there are plenty of unexplored possibilities that would be really positive for a venue manager with real time push. I love seeing that my social profile has notifications, I think business owners would love seeing activity and get a really positive kick out of it and continue engaging with foursquare.

Thanks Foursquare!

Stephen Nguyen

Team Tabsquared

Stephen Nguyen - Jared Smith - Sam Samskies

Tabsquared gives venue managers realtime information about the people who are checking in. We wanted to take advantage of the real time venue push api and make it as useful as possible for the location manager. This would allow the manager/owner to know useful information that could have them react to the customer better. This would be especially great for a manager who is currently running a campaign but does not have time to access and analyze the manager dashboard.

Userflow:

auth via foursquare

enter phone number you wish to receive notification text for

verify that you own that number via verification code sent via sms

sit back and wait for people to check in

suggestions for the location manager

customer X has checked into your location more than X times looks like they are a regular! treat them nicely!

customer X who just checked in is very popular and loves to write tips!

customer X is from Fairfax, Virginia, thats pretty far from San Francisco, make sure you welcome them to the city!

  We think there are plenty of unexplored possibilities that would be really positive for a venue manager with real time push. I love seeing that my social profile has notifications, I think business owners would love seeing activity and get a really positive kick out of it and continue engaging with foursquare.

Thanks Foursquare!

Stephen Nguyen

Team Tabsquared

Stephen Nguyen - Jared Smith - Sam Samskies

Time.now - As I'm writing this I'm thinking...

"I'm looking left and right, and hearing that the current presenting team is led by a PHD/MD. Damn... There are really intelligent and driven people here... PHDs? at least five, MDs? probably fifteen, MBAs? a handful people in this program... and then there is me..."

Flash back a bit...

So a last minute email from a Dev Bootcamp Jay Connolly asked me to join in with him for a Lean Launchpad application of his startup concept "Lift Hero". https://www.lifthero.com/ We've been planning and meeting over a business model canvas and thinking critically over the value proposition that we could provide in transporting seniors. I'm not a person that is easy to quantify on paper and I hope I can earn my team's.

Time.now

What followed is the most intense, interruption filled, and honest presentations of business canvasses that I've seen in a long time. Steve Blank and a "A" (seriously experienced) list of mentors grilled us.

The class is intense on "doing", much like my time through dev bootcamp. I'm looking forward to killing it, there are no grades, our learning is driven by our own will to want to learn and more importantly win.

Cheers to pushing hard and doing what you love in your free-time!

def launchpad_end_date(timenow)   timenow + 7.88923e6 end

launchpad_end_date(Time.now)

#Travelhackathon by Emirates Airlines was pretty sweet event! This is our first time attempting a mobile app as web developers. finalist but no cigar with this competition. WELL worth the time, effort, and napping underneath Microsoft's executive conference table. TCKTS!, a Social Itinerary.

debrief later. I need sleep!

binaryskipper.brain do { |brain_cell|  sleep *1

brain_cell.rest

end

I have over $1,000 in AWS credits to spend. I could mine for a single bitcoin and fail OR use this $1,000 as a interesting blogging and learning platform. My challenge is to learn as much as I can about the leading cloud computing provider.

DAY 1: learn wtf all these terms/tools mean and which ones I care about.

Cost: zero dollars.

Total: $1,000

AWS Storage Gateway,

Amazon Route 53,

VPC,

EC2,

Elastic MapReduce,

SES,

SWF,

CloudSearch,

ElastiCache,

AWS OpsWorks,

Elastic Transcoder,

AWS Elastic Beanstalk,

SQS,

AWS CloudHSM,

AWS Data Transfer,

SNS,

Redshift,

Simple EDI,

DynamoDB,

Glacier,

AWS Data Pipeline,

CloudFront,

RDS,

S3,

and SimpleDB

!!nil #=> false !!"abc" #=> true !!false #=> false

class String

  def to_bool

    return true if self == true || self =~ (/(true|t|yes|y|1)$/i)

    return false if self == false || self =~ (/(false|f|no|n|0)$/i)  

    raise ArgumentError.new("invalid value for Boolean: \"#{self}\"")

  end

  end

  !!"binaryskipper"

=> true

  !!"false"

=>true

  !!true

=>true

  "true".to_bool =>true

  "1".too_bool

=>true

  "yes".to_bool

=> true

  "BinarySkipper".to_bool

=>ArgumentError: invalid value for Boolean: "BinarySkipper"

Random FLASHHH BACK (a incomplete post sometime during phase 2)

I ended up in north Berkeley this weekend. paired with my mentor, Colin Curtiin and had a wonderful time pairing on the coursetree project i've been working on.

hrmmm... what to write..

################## Flash forward!

BUNDLE INSTALL WITH ALL THE CORES

>> gem install bundler --pre >> bundle install -j<numcores>

#### example I have a 13inch macbook with 2 cores >> bundle install -j2

>> time bundle install -j2 ### run w/ time benchmark

>> bundle install -j2 ### run w/o time benchmark

AMAZINGGG!! if you add up all the seconds... you will have many seconds!

more reading and reference at http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/59584648154/parallel-gem-installing-using-bundler