No, I'm not one of those startup founders trying to convince the world and myself that I made an excellent decision. Maybe not yet. I am one of those consultants working for one. Last November 25, 2014 I celebrated my first year in the startup I joined after I thought that maybe the corporate world … Continue reading In Retrospect: My First Year in a Tech Startup
Author: markbadiola
I am an IT generalist focusing on digital engineering management and technology consulting. I am also a storyteller, illustrator, project teams super glue, and the office pantry’s resident counsellor. Nice to meet you!
For a glimpse of one of the most awesome projects I worked on, I am reblogging this special review.
I watched the movie with my nephew. He requested for it. Right from the moment I saw its trailer in one of those movie dates I had, I knew it was going to be cool. I’m a creative working in the tech industry; inventions fascinate me. I thought that was it, that it’s the only thing that will make it appreciable for me. But I was surprised.
It will get a bit nerdy from here. Brace yourself if you have to.
The movie brought me back to my college days when I was working with my dissertation. I worked on a system that taught and implemented feed-forward artificial neural networks (ANN). The goal was way beyond providing a tutorial on ANN. I just had to include it because nobody was buying the idea that the system was capable of simulating human decision-making albeit imperfect. The real goal was to create…
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Wall Scrabble by Restoration Hardware http://hiconsumption.com/2014/11/wall-scrabble-by-restoration-hardware/ I suck at "competitive" scrabble. By that I mean I simply put on the board whatever word I can make with my tiles; if it fits then that would be it for me. Years ago I met this guy who plays scrabble like it's a chess game. He knows … Continue reading Article: Wall Scrabble by Restoration Hardware
Palettab Chrome Extension offers color themes and fonts right from your browser tab http://thenextweb.com/creativity/2014/10/17/palettab-chrome-extension-offers-tab-based-color-themes-fonts/
So a couple of months ago I bought myself an Urbanears Plattan. My mobile phone functions more like a music player to me and when I switched to a different model and realized that the sound quality and setting is not as awesome as my previous one, I knew I had to dump the earphones that … Continue reading How to Clean your Urbanears Plattan
We make bad decisions once in a while and this is what our development team experienced working on an Ember project to be converted to a mobile application through Cordova. "What happened?" you would ask. We made a bad decision of independently coding the version to be converted to a mobile app with that version … Continue reading Dynamically Loading Stylesheets and Scripts in Cordova with Ember JS
As a professional, it's always about productivity these days. Starting in the industry, I never thought I would have to keep track of how I manage my time. I was just a software developer; at the bottom of it all. If I get my code working, that would be it for the day. But growing … Continue reading Business Insider: These Guys Raised $7 Million To Create A Calendar App That Thinks For You
Weekly Apps: Ultratext, Bolt, Asana and more http://abduzeedo.com/weekly-apps-ultratext-bolt-asana-and-more We are always fascinated by new apps. Only, they sometimes just won't apply to our lifestyle. But we like them still. -aB
The Perfect Office - Powercube, Quirky Universal Docking Station and Office Ideas http://abduzeedo.com/perfect-office-powercube-quirky-universal-docking-station-and-office-ideas
