Video Dating App
I use the Clear app on my phone to store quick one line ideas that pop into my head all the time. I’m going to start taking some of the best ones and fleshing them out a bit on here. Some of these I might try to build, but most of them I probably won’t, so if you see an idea that you like (either this one or in the future) feel free to take it and run with it.
How I did on my 2015 Goals
As 2015 draws to a close, I want to share the progress that I made in the last year. This is the first year that I’ve been able to focus enough on my goals to actually remember them at the end of the year. Sometime in the next week I will post my goals for 2016. I learned a lot this year, not just about the goals that I was working on, but also about setting goals in general.
How to set up a node.js production server
One of the biggest problems I had when learning node was figuring out how to get a production server up and running. Coming from a PHP background, I was used to just installing a LAMP stack on an Ubuntu server and then uploading PHP files to the directory specified in Apache. Because node runs the server itself, the process for setting up a server is a bit different, so I’m going to try to create a step by step list of my process for doing it.
My Goals for 2015
While I was serving as a missionary in Chile, I worked every day with goals. We would set goals each month for the number of people that we wanted to help teach about Christ, and then each week, we would set shorter term goals that would help us to reach those goals. Every day we would set even shorter term goals about the number of people we would talk to on the street, and the number of people we would invite to learn more.
Confidence in the Product
Over the last two weeks, I’ve been taking some classes through Treehouse to learn how to create iPhone apps. I feel like my web development skills are in a good place, but I would like to begin learning to create apps that are native to phone devices. I’ve tried a couple of different online classes to try to find the one that works best for me, and so far I’ve been most impressed with Treehouse.
Stand Out and Be Awesome
I returned last night from a week-long trip to Glacier National Park. From east to west, the entire area is wooded with pines and cedars, clear blue rivers, lakes and waterfalls. Glacier is perhaps one of the most beautiful places that I have visited on Earth, but after less than a day, I was already tired of it. We stayed in the park for more than twelve hours, but I realized that after we had driven its length, we had seen everything.