In my mysterious day job, I write mainly in PHP and Javascript, but I've always had a secret love for Java. Maybe it is because it's my first language, maybe because my brain works well with strongly typed

So I just conquered my fifth escape room yesterday. We beat their "hard" room in 42 minutes without getting any hints. It was a fun, Illuminati conspiracy inspired room with some great tech-based

I wanted to announce the winner of my @steembasicincome giveaway. Since the response was so great, I decided to up the number of shares I was giving away from 3 to 4. Without further ado the winners are:

After PHP, one of the most common tools I use for development is jQuery. JQuery is a library add-on to enhance javascript while also making it a ton easier to use. From the developers themselves: jQuery

So I have one more obsession/love I want to share with Steemit: Escape Rooms. I was introduced to them by a friend of mine about three months ago. Do you remember those old click and point adventure games?

Please excuse the dust, just wanted to try out SteemBin. Not too bad. I'd like a way to enter a description/comment before the formatted text so I can give some context to my post. Plus I'd like to be

Hitting 100 followers seems like an occasion to celebrate. It's been a strange ride these first few months learning the ins and outs of Steemit and I know I have a lot more to learn. A big thank you goes

Previously in my blog I mentioned a mentor a couple FTC ( teams in my town. I use my programming expertise to help them write better code for their robots. The initial design of the logic, then finally

I wanted to write a little reflexion on teaching with Python after teaching it for a little over a week. So far I'm pretty happy with Python as an instructional language. The highlights include: User input

I was jogging yesterday and I had an idea that would expand the Steem blockchain into a new area. I love listening to podcasts when I run or commute to work, or pretty much any time I have to keep my brain

I've been trying to build a witness. I got a server setup, then started following some step by step instructions I found on Steemit. It was going well until I realized my instructions were super old and

Two nights ago I was working with my wife on her goal to introduce a computer science course of study into her high school. We ran into a problem when it came to costs, specifically the costs of textbooks.

The next tool I want to review is Trinket. In my review of the other online IDEs, I didn't catch Trinket, but it ended up being the default that we will use in my classroom. It's another web-based IDE

Sunday was a rare break from the cold and rain, so I decided to get the kids outside and of course, do some geocaching. One thing I have to remind myself is sometimes we have to stop staring at our geocaching

Spoiler Warning: Vague references to the Reign of Winter adventure path. The three adventures snuck up on the bandits, who were huddling close to a fire to keep to warm. All of the sudden a warpriest dashed

I'm launching into an exciting new challenge for my Pathfinder DMing. Previously, my 9-year-old daughter wanted to play, so I ran her through the Beginner Box and then started a full-fledged campaign through

One of my other hobbies that I have not yet discussed on Steemit is Geocaching. For those of you who don't know what Geocaching is, do go check at for all the details. In short, it is a global network

Probably many on Steemit know about Slack. For those few that haven't, Slack is a chat program with customizable public and private rooms. Recently they've integrated voice chat and even screen sharing

I said I'd write about my process in learning python. Now I won't lie, so far the hardest part of learning Python is no brackets! I mean we are just supposed to organize things by spacing? In Python, the

So I've been mentioning more than once that I need to start learning Python. It's time to actually take action on desire or I will run out of time. I thought I'd use this blog to document my process so