Archive for the 'other stuff' Category

Got JavaScript Resources?

I’ve been working on this JavaScript News and Resources page and I’m looking for more content. The basic idea is to build out a one page reference to easily access the highest quality content related to JavaScript. I know there is a lot more out here so this is my call out to see what […]

Where’s Joe? He has a baby!

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Many of you have written in to ask what happened to Joe? Well here is the answer: a baby!

Our lovely little daughter was born late in October. She’s obviously been taking up a lot of time and attention. That isn’t going to change, but I am slowly getting back to my Joe duties. Stay tuned […]

Election Show

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Take politics and remove “the issues” and what you have is one of the funniest comedy shows in America.
Election Show let’s the audience follow and participate in a 90 minute improvised presidential election. The stipulation is that everything, including party platforms, needs to be improvised. VPs are picked from the audience, the candidates will […]

Pay incentives in the tech industry

Slate recently posted an article about incentives in the fruit picking industry and how they can increase productivity. Naturally there is a big difference between fruit and scripting, but it begs the question: can we do more in the tech industry to link income to productivity? I think we can.
A hard problem to solve

In most […]

Fun with Joe’s Goals

A friend was playing around on the Joe’s Goals website and sent me this screen shot:

It isn’t art but it is kind of funny.

What it means to master something

Have you ever truly mastered something? Sure you have. At some point in everyone’s life they master something, even if it is only tying their shoes or stacking the dishes “just so” on the rack.
More than nature
Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us […]

Zeenami: your personal self-improvement center

What do you want to accomplish? Lose weight? Quit smoking? Exercise? Which of the thousands of products and plans out there are most likely to help you succeed? This is exactly the question Zeenami is trying to answer.
Zeenami is a new self-improvement portal that ties together your results from several personality and fulfillment quizzes to […]

How to survive in the wild (video)

Here is a great video with some very easy survival tips that most everyone should keep in mind when they are out hiking or exploring the outdoors. Pretty much everything is briefly covered from animal attacks to what to put in your survival pack.
Some Quick Tidbits:

Wear synthetic fabrics or wool - cotton gets wet and […]

Future of Tech: two quick interviews

Over at Download Squad I’ve posted a couple of quick interviews about up and coming changes in the tech world. The first is with Facebook’s Senior Platform Manager Dave Morin and covers Facebook’s apps project. The second is with Adobe’s AIR Evangelist Ryan Stewart and covered the Adobe Integrated Runtime. These a two very exciting […]

Joe’s (pointless) Search Engine Project

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John Boyle (a comedic improve actor/friend) and I partnered to put together this little project over the last month. The idea is that it is a search engine that returns the same high quality of results that you used to be able to find on any run of the mill search engine back in 1995 […]