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Lift #500WED Challenge: Day 2 Tell the story of where you hope your writing...
This is an exercise done over on Lift’s 500 Words Every Day challenge for Day 2. Day 2: Tell the story of where you hope your writing will take you. What do you hope will happen as you find your voice?...
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A simple blog post – how an obscure programmer changed my life
This post is for Day 9 of the Lift #500WED challenge. Here was today’s challenge: Write a review—a review for writers—of your favorite recent blog post or article. What ideas draw you into the...
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Reverse Bucket List – Day 24 of Lift #500WED Challenge
Here’s today’s Day 24 Writing Prompt: So, we’ve all thought about making “life lists” or “bucket lists”, those things we want to make sure we do before we die. While it’s a great exercise to write...
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A Change In Mindset
While I’ve been learning to code for the last little while and with some major distractions like interviewing with many many companies over a 4 month period, it got me thinking – why aren’t I further...
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Day 10: Simple Timer App
Okay, so today was a bit weird as I was working out of a new space at CSI Annex, which threw me off, but here I still am learning, so that’s not all bad right? Anyway, today I stumbled upon a two...
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Day 11: Struggling to find new app ideas, but some UIPickerView fun
Okay, to be honest, I’m kind of limited to the stuff I can really build so I’m reaching out to see what other things I can implement that can augment my learning. I’m going to have to re-evaluate my...
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Day 12: Movie Database app with Tuples
Okay, while it doesn’t hook into IMDB, Flixster, APIs or anything cool like that (yet), today I went through Bitfountain’s foundations course and completed something using tuples to draw the data from....
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Day 13: Lucky number 13.. not really an app but more an update
So today was a bit of a slog because I had to get some stuff back for a review I was writing for Staples. You can check out my latest review over at Staples Tech Hub. After that I met up with some...
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Day 14: Kind of back on track and yet another tip calculator app…
So this past weekend was a bit worrisome in terms of keeping up with the challenge. Without getting into the details, there was some personal stuff that I had to deal with that kind of knocked the wind...
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Day 15: No Sleep + UISwitch Fun
Had an amazing morning with Morning Reset by Camp Reset and dancing my butt off from 7:30 to 9:30 am after practically getting zero hours of sleep due to some personal stuff swirling through my head...
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Caught in the undertow
So without having to go into any detail. A bomb was dropped in my life that ripped apart my personal life. I’m in a much better headspace now than I was last week and on a path to healing and in a...
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Switching from Swift to Objective-C. A short hiatus, but still here
So it’s been a while since my last real post. Some stuff happened, but I’ve slowly been able to get back to my normal’ish self. Not the deadly laser focus as before, but this time it’s more of a...
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Day 43: Revisiting Foundations
Not much to write about or anything earth shattering. Today I’m not going to share code because while going through C Programming – The Absolute Beginner’s Guide – it goes through the basics in a way...
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I’ve been struggling with the Treehouse Objective-C iOS track. I don’t know what it is about the course so far, but I’m trying to deal with it the best way possible. I feel a bit of stress bubbling up...
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2 Fast, 2 Furious: A Much Needed Rest for the 2nd Time Around
The last 3 weeks at Lighthouse Labs have been nothing but challenging and amazing. I hate it sometimes because the curriculum will knock you down and won’t relent if you don’t prepare. But I love it...
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