Odroid Magazine and US sales

Odroid has a magazine!

Apparently, I'm late to the party, but check it out at http://magazine.odroid.com/ :
Here's a link to the current issue (November 2014)

They're apparently selling these things in the United States, instead of having to deal with shipping from Korea.  Check out Ameridroid if you're interested.

September 10th - The battle for the net

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

Not sure what I'm talking about?  Check out John Oliver's description:




Do something about it.  Contact your representatives.  The Battle for the Net site has an excellent web app that makes it pretty easy to do.

Raspberry Pi B+ officially released!

Raspberry Pi users of the world rejoice! There's a new model on the block, called the Model B+.

 (Image courtesy of Raspberry Pi's website)

Here's a video of Eben Upton and James announcing the product:

Here's a nickel version of the changes:

• Improved power management 
• 4 USB ports (up from 2)
• Extra GPIO ports
• Composite video and audio combined into one jack
• Micro SD card instead of 
• Same CPU, GPU, and price.

More videos from the announcement are available on the launch announcement page.  Enjoy!

Conquering Imposter Syndrome

This is an excellent talk on Imposter Syndrome. I'm astounded that there aren't more views. There should be.
Imposter Syndrome defined (courtesy of the Ada Initiative):
Impostor Syndrome is the feeling that you aren't actually qualified for the work you are doing and will be discovered as a fraud.

Check it out:

Leagify - join the Discourse!

Some of you may know that I recently created a company called Leagify.  It was one of the winners of StartupWeekend Green Bay 2014.

A short description of Leagify is that it turns data into games, and creates fantasy leagues for the rest of us.  To help people talk about Leagify, I've implemented a Leagify Discourse forum, which, as the name indicates, is based on Discourse.  Feel free to stop over and see what's going on!

Hyperpin - Virtual real virtual pinball.

Wow. This. I've never seen a HyperPin project before.  There is so much loving, crafted, care for detail in this build that it simply astounds me. I'm not even a big pinball guy.

PHP, Symfony2, and general development learning

I'm doing some PHP learning and figuring how to use the Symfony2 framework. It really takes out the crusty edges of PHP, and helps to create clean, powerful web apps.

Presentation on extensible code using event dispatcher:

Slide Deck:

It was like that when I got here: Steps toward modernizing a legacy code base:

It Was Like That When I Got Here: Steps Toward Modernizing a Legacy Codebase from NashvillePHP on Vimeo.

Slide deck:

It Was Like That When I Got Here: Steps Toward Modernizing a Legacy Codebase from pmjones88

Another Paul Jones Presentation about the insanity of development:

All You Jokers from Atlanta PHP User Group on Vimeo.

Slide Deck:

All You Jokers from pmjones88

This has been helpful for me. I hope it is helpful for you, as well.