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Book Sprint Interview

A few days ago Dave Wendland at BrightTag interviewed me about the Book Sprint process. Although I didn’t mention it in the announcement, this is the process used to co-author Developing an iOS 7 Edge in a weekend. What is a Book Sprint, and how did you find out about it? “I didn’t know about Book Sprints […]

First Book: Developing an iOS 7 Edge

If you know any iOS developers looking to learn more about all the sweet new iOS 7 stuff, I can personally recommend this book since I co-authored it 🙂 The summary goes Many of the features added to iOS 6 were incremental updates over iOS 5. This is not the case for iOS 7. Apple’s […]

Open Source: Cassandra Super Columns to Composite Columns Migrator

If you’ve been following Cassandra’s development, you’ll know that its made huge progress in the last two years. My company first start using Cassandra v0.8.x, and the latest stable version is now v1.2.3. One of the major changes was adding support for composite columns. In DataStax words, “composite comparators can be thought of simply as […]

Graduated!

Yayy!! A big thank you to all my family, friends, mentors, and supporters who have helped me at various points along the way. You’ve all helped fashion a great experience for this poor Southern boy, and I hope that you’ll allow me to help you in turn, whenever the time arises.

Update on My Life

I’m sorry its been so long since I’ve written! A lot has changed in my life recently, and I should tell you all about it. In brief, Finally graduated from Drexel University with both my bachelor and master degrees in electrical engineering. (Honors, baby!) Moved to Chicago. Technically, I’m currently living in Evanston, IL, at Northwestern […]

First Commercial! Clayton “Dream Homes”

The PrettyNerd, my sister, my sister’s (now) ex-boyfriend, and myself “star” in a Clayton Homes commercial. Who knows if this will ever air, but Clayton likes these home-grown type commercials. Anyway, it was a fun couple of hours. 🙂