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Import Screenshots to Evernote with just One Click
I have an extensive collection of website screenshots that I store and organize in Evernote. I've gone through multiple ways of saving screenshots and have finally come to a solution that works best...
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I worked for years designing interfaces for other developers to build. Bit by bit I slowly ramped up my skills until I was writing all of the HTML, CSS, Sass, and documentation for most of my projects....
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Minority Groups in Tech, is it just Reverse Discrimination?
I was approached recently at a technology conference by a male attendee asking: Are these groups, like RailsGirls, really helping or are they just causing gender differences to be more apparent thus...
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Sass Mixin for Setting Column Widths on Tables
Mixins are one of my favorite features of Sass. It allows you to write logic within css. I often use mixins to reduce the amount of code needed for commonly used styles of a project. When designing our...
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A Quick Guide to Sublime Text
I arguably spend more than 90% of my workday working in my text editor. Knowing how to become faster and more proficient in Sublime Text has saved me a great deal of time and headache every day. In...
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Resources for Learning CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. While there is a lot of debate online about the pros and cons of using CoffeeScript, I've decided to just focus on talking about some...
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API Testing with Runscope
Runscope is a web application that provides a easy to use interface for testing APIs and backend services. In this post, I'm going to outline a few of the ways that I've been using Runscope's automated...
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Code Exercise: Mario
Introduction to Computer Science Course Being a self-taught developer, I've never really taken a basic "computer science" course. I've mostly learned within the confines of one language: JavaScript. In...
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Code Exercise: Greedy
This week, one of the assignments from Harvard's CS50 class was a little exercise called Greedy. A greedy algorithm as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology is: An algorithm...
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Code Exercise: Caesar Cipher
A Ceasar cipher encrypts a message by rotating each letter by k spaces. Since there is only one series of steps to take to encrypt and decrypt the message, it's not the most secure form of encryption....
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Code Exercise: Vigenère’s Cipher
The Caesar cipher we wrote previously is not a very secure way to store a message. It can be cracked by using frequency analysis of the given language or by a brute force attack fairly easily. This...
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Deleting Objects in JavaScript
I've recently become a Chapter Leader for Girl Develop It in Atlanta. In case you're not familiar with Girl Develop It's mission, it provides affordable programs for adult women interested in learning...
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