Philly Startup Weekend

  • Category: Updates

Turns out if you fly out to Philly and do something cool, they write nice things about you. I like this place! Couldn’t be more pleased with the opportunity or the team I got to work with! voxx.io, a digital jukebox, took top honors at Philadelphia Startup Weekend 4.0, beating out 11 other teams at the […]

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I’m a Republican, but …

  • Category: Opinion

I’m a Republican. I was practically born that way. I grew up listening to talk radio with my dad—Limbaugh and Hannity mostly. When I turned 18, I couldn’t wait to cast my first vote and I naturally voted party-line. I voted for Bush Jr. twice, and I voted for McCain. Though there is a significant […]

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A Simple iOS Web Browser

  • Category: Code

A simple web browser with a few customization options. There’s no documentation at this point, but the gist is pretty simple. There’s plenty that could be done to make it better, but it’s functional. Requires ARC. JHWebBrowser *browser = [JHWebBrowser new]; browser.url = [NSURL URLWithString:@”http://apple.com”]; You can show/remove toolbars with the following browser.showTitleBar = YES; […]

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I’m on Society6

  • Category: Design

If you haven’t had a chance to see it yet, I’ve posted several of my pieces over at Society6. Take a look around, and if you like something, click the “Promote” button. There are prints, iPhone cases, t-shirts and more.

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Waldo Canyon Fire

On Wednesday I was down in Colorado Springs to meet with a potential client. Tuesday night had brought images of the Front Range that looked almost indistinguishable from the mountains of Mordor, so I was anxious to see what the city I had grown up in looked like. Most of the day, you couldn’t really […]

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A Different Perspective on the Gun Debate

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. -The Second Amendment of the Constution of the United States of America That’s what it says. But what if the Founding Fathers were wrong? What if that was simply […]

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Lightning Strikes

Words fail in the light of a tragedy like the shooting that took place this morning in an Aurora, CO theater. Senseless inhumanity is haunting, deeply saddening and impossible to fully comprehend. When something like this happens the world changes a little bit. We realize that the assumptions we’ve been working off are no longer […]

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Marketing is one of the most effective ways to boost sales and awareness, but what does that really mean? It’s important to choose your medium wisely. In the past, most campaigns have been conducted through social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram). Nowadays, you can choose a range of other tools and techniques. Now a days, […]

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Full Width Tumblr Photosets

  • Category: Code

A while back I needed a way to display Tumblr photosets wider than 500px, the maximum width supported out of the box. Instead of writing my own viewer which would need to be updated any time Tumblr released new layouts, I wrote a JQuery plugin that would expand existing photosets to the width of their […]

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