Jewl Of The Lotus

the sound that strengthens compassion in all enlightened beings. om mani padme hum.

 

grandomizr – a jQuery group randomizer

Some of you might recall my last open source project – SlickQuiz. Well, I’m at it again. I’ve recently released my second open source project – grandomizr, through my company Quicken Loans. Quicken Loans launched an open source initiative just a few months ago which has been steadily picking up steam. I get bragging...

 

SlickQuiz WordPress Plugin is Live!

Hey all! A few months ago, you might remember that I released my SlickQuiz jQuery plugin into the wild – and so far, I’d say it’s been pretty successful! It’s had several pull requests on github, tons of great feature requests, and it even helped spur the open source movement at my company, Quicken...

 

Future Insights Live in Vegas

Julie’s Vegas Flickr Set Vegas. What else needs to be said? It’s been a few weeks since I returned and life is finally starting to get back to normal (ish). Future Insights Live was an amazing conference – there were great talks, great people, great insight, great parties ;), and, of course, great Vegas....

 

RootsTech 2012 Recap

Well once again, RootsTech was a huge success. With registrations up over 30% from last year, we had over 4000 genealogists and developers in attendance. And if I had to guess, there were probably twice as many developers as last year. Maybe it’s because I’ve been up since 5am, have a cold, and generally...

 

Wow, 2011 Was Pretty Awesome

I can’t believe 2011 is over… seriously… I can’t. Fastest. Year. Ever. 2011 was phenomenal. Insane. Exhilarating. Awesome. Joyful. Busy. Just all around generally incredible. Probably my favorite year in my <27 years of existence. Here’s just a few reasons why: Marriage – Best day of my life. We did it!! And it was...

 

SlickQuiz jQuery Plugin – now on github!

Sweet!! I just released my very first jQuery plugin on github – SlickQuiz! SlickQuiz, simply put, is: A jQuery plugin for creating pretty, dynamic quizzes. I’ll let the demo speak for itself – check it out below!! Check out the github page for all the technical details! Update 6/21/12: We now have a SlickQuiz...

 

CodeMash 2011 Recap

It’s been one week since CodeMash 2011 ended and I have to say that I’m still feeling a bit of a geek high from the experience of it all. This years CodeMash was my first developer conference ever, so it was pretty interesting to see the whole dev-geek community come together in all of...