The Column

Motto: Sentences that Begin and End with the Same Word are My Favorite Sentences. Before this 30 Day Challenge I wouldn't really have understood the title I used for this Column. Writing an Android App. That's the goal for March. Technically I accomplished that within the first day, within the first hour. Although "Hello World!" isn't much of an app. I've been working through Udacity's Android Basics nanodegree . Well, the coursework that one would do to earn said nanodegree. I'm more interested in the knowledge than the resume boost.  Anyway it's been really good! It's aimed at people who have never coded before - so parts of it are definitely too easy... but that means I'm not getting left behind, like I did last time when I tried going straight into the Android Developer nanodegree . I'm now starting to get comfortable playing around in the IDE, making my phone do stuff I want it to do. It's my goal to write an app t...

Motto: Sometimes I Impress Myself In Columns  #219  and  #289  I shared a series of snippets from the Moleskine I had been writing in for the past year or so. Last night I re-discovered the green "Irish" notebook that Melissa gave me for our 1-year anniversary (of dating, not marriage). Reading through it last night was one of the more entertaining things I've done in a while. I'd like to share with you a brief selection of things I wrote about from ~January 2011 to ~February 2012. This is from a time in my life before I graduated college, got a job, got married, and started doing all the projects that I write about here in the Column (also it's from before the Column). FYI - I'm going to write these quotes in the color they were in the notebook. Let's begin. Things I'm likely to learn from the time log: > You have too much time on your hands > The implications of E=MC 2 > Other stuff ----- - ----- It's beginn...