Announcing funding campaign for ‘FoodStats’ mobile app
Today I am announcing a crowd-funding campaign to build the ‘FoodStats’ app for Android.
Coming soon: Know what you’re eating
If you have or know somebody with diabetes, high blood pressure or dietary restrictions – and a smart phone – watch for a major announcement from me tomorrow (4/15/2014) morning.
Weekly roundup – April 14, 2014
Telecommuting tips, update OpenSSL, the end of crapware?, Git tutorials, free education, ideas into products, humanize numbers, better Datetimes, a Git GUI.
Project announcement coming & new donation options
I’ll soon be announcing a project I’m very excited about: a portable library and Android app for the wonderful data provided by the folks at NutritionIX. NutritionIX provides comprehensive nutrition information for individual food items as well as popular restaurants – something that has been extremely useful in managing my diabetes (type 2). Watch this …
A new way to think about employment
Years ago I came up with an idea I call distributed micro-income. Businesses have been doing this for decades (as have artists such as authors and musicians) but it’s only in recent years that it has become practical for small groups and individuals on a large scale. Distributed micro-income The idea is simple: Rather than …
Weekly roundup – April 7, 2014
The Weekly roundup is my regular post of interesting and useful things I’ve found or done over the last week. Topics: Diversity in tech, crypto, online verification, Windows pkg management, .NET Foundation, a better RSS reader, tutorials, taking credit cards, debugging mod_rewrite.
Understanding Binary and Hex numbers
The following tutorial was first published on my website and is Copyright © Shawn South 2002. All rights reserved. Computers only understand numbers The first thing to understand about computers is that they are nothing more than a powerful, glorified calculator. The only thing they know – the only thing they understand – is numbers. …
Ch-ch-ch-changes!
I resisted saying anything yesterday because I didn’t want people to think it was a prank, but Bellevue College has decided not to renew my annual contract and let me go.
Weekly roundup, March 31, 2014
Topics: Computer yoga, OneNote API, BitCoin explained, WordPress for PhpStorm, hosting service for .NET, personal data protocols, git prompt.
Weekly roundup, March 24, 2014
Unit testing PHP, test images for color-blindness, hands-on learning, RSS on Github, myths of software development.