Category Archives: my life

JLButtonScroller update

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 9, 2012

I’ve just updated JLButtonScroller to have a nicer looking demo along with a reloadButtons method. What is JLButtonScroller? A simple class that will dynamically size and add UIButton’s to a UIScrollView supplied by the user. Tweet

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When do you help?

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 6, 2012

Do you help to feel good or to look good? It’s a big difference and affects who you end up helping. Should you strive to make the next big app for people to use on their smart phones? Or do you help those who dream of food and not technology? We operate on a limited [...]

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Development journal

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 3, 2012

I’ve started a development journal for my next version of Notethread. I’m finding it quite a fun practice and kind of useful. Sometimes when I code I have trouble keeping everything in my head at once. By having this journal I’m pushing my thoughts into this page. This means they’re safe and I can go [...]

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And so why do we keep going?

By Joshua Lay | Published: April 29, 2012

To take advantage of being human. To learn. To desire. To always be better than we are today. We are not stone. We can move, think and feel. Don’t waste it. Tweet

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Python Learning Journal

By Joshua Lay | Published: April 27, 2012

I’ve decided to keep a simple journal when going through Learn Python The Hard Way. It’s nothing special and you may get bored, but I’ll keep updating it with the latest information as I keep stepping through. I have gone from the very start. The basics are always the best place to start; I see [...]

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Markdown

By Joshua Lay | Published: April 26, 2012

I’ve been coding a bit more these days and using GitHub for my repositories. As a result I’ve started writing README’s for my projects. What’s great about them is I started using the Markdown format. This is my markup of choice for my new development practice; a dev journal for Notethread. I wanted to use [...]

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Learn Code The Hard Way

By Joshua Lay | Published: April 24, 2012

Learn Code The Hard Way Not a new resource by any means; but it’s still brilliant. Zed A. Shaw has an excellent series on learning to code the hard way. That is, by paying attention to detail, going through slowly and building up one step at a time. To really understand what you’re doing takes [...]

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