Let’s cut straight to the chase. Ronda Rousey would flat out destroy Floyd Mayweather in an MMA match. What I find most irritating is that Mayweather won’t step up. He continues to hide behind the money he has made as a boxer, stating for Ronda Rousey to call him when she makes over $300 million… Continue reading
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McGregor vs Mendes: 11 minutes till knockout
The Notorious Conor McGregor, you either love him or you hate him. There’s no middle ground. He reminds me a lot of Muhammad Ali—loud, confident, yet athletically gifted. Each sport has an athlete just like this come along every 10 years or so. For the UFC it’s Conor McGregor. Even the people who hate this… Continue reading
Called It: No more Elance or oDesk
A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a Austin-based startup founder on Skype. We talked about oDesk, Elance and the new UpWork service. I made the prediction UpWork would become the eventual platform and that we would see the exit of Elance just like oDesk. Based on the following email I just received it looks… Continue reading
Non-Disclosure Agreements: The Assassins of Portfolios
NDAs suck! There I said it. Don’t get me wrong, non-disclosure agreements are very useful “should” you have a need to keep under wraps a real trade secret or “secret sauce.” Examples of this would be Google’s ranking algorithm or the recipe to Bush’s Baked Beans. But do you think either of those companies would… Continue reading
Coding Live with LiveCoding.tv
Today I took my first spin with the new, super cool service called LiveCoding.tv which launched yesterday. I elected to stream my personal project where I’m creating a cloud based call center solution. I have to admit I was a little nervous to code live. For some reason I tend to associate doing it live… Continue reading
Nailed it: My First Client Experience on Codementor
Today I had my first client on Codementor which is a really cool service where you can, in minutes, be connected to real technical experts in a wide range of domain specializations. I was sitting at the kitchen table on my Macbook working on a personal side project when I received an email titled “Codementor… Continue reading
Solved: Laravel Event Broadcasts Not Arriving at Pusher
The other day I was getting some hands-on experience with Laravel 5.1’s event broadcasting features. I followed all the requirements specified by the documentation. However, when my application would broadcast the event, it would not reach Pusher. During my debugging process I confirmed that: I had Pusher’s composer package pulled into my app. I was… Continue reading