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Marketing doesn't meet reality
While it should come as no surprise to anyone, marketing departments usually aren't very technical. Today I was reading an article about slow Internet performance and it sparked me to test my connection. I'm getting about 15-20 Mbps down and about 1 Mbps up. Unfortunately I have no idea what I pay for as the plan I'm on is so old, it isn't listed on Time Warner's website. I did, however, goto their website to see the current offerings and saw this table.
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Struggling with graphics
One area of writing code that I've never been good at is graphics. I partially attribute this to my lack of artistic ability, but also my distaste for advanced math. For the last day, I've been working on a problem to rotate some buttons and move the buttons at the same time. Rotating the buttons is easy:
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What is "work product"?
Up until fairly recently, my job was mostly writing code and it was quite easy to measure how I did each day by how much code I wrote. On days that I didn't write much code, I didn't think I was all that productive. Work product was simple to define; it was the code that I produced and the applications I wrote.
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Review: MobileMount
I've been looking for the perfect way to hold my iPhone on my desk while I work so that it is in reach and screen is visible. A lot of times, I need to test on a device, so this is crucial. There have been a number of stands on Kickstarter and I've back a few. I wrote about the poorly designed Oona which I threw out and then about The Jack I've been using because the Oona was a waste. While The Jack works well, I was looking for something adjustable and came across the MobileMount on Kickstarter. It looked well designed and the twist lock to push the extra air out of the suction cup seemed like a great idea as it works well on my RAM mount in my car.