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...

 

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...

 

RootsTech 2011 Wrap Up

Wow – RootsTech 2011 was an absolute blast, indeed, a techie-genealogists dream come true! I almost don’t even know where to begin, there is so much to say (and so I apologize, because this may get long)! I learned so many great genealogy tips, began formulating some great ideas for genea-tech applications, and met...

 

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...