Anyone who has started a company with me knows I have two main rules when I start a business: * I don’t want to succeed at the cost of my ethics and morals * I don’t want us bringing politics and political views into our company I get a few

I don’t consider myself a social person. I don’t have a lot of friends, I certainly don’t go out to the bars, and I’m not a part of any group online like a forum or a guild in World of Warcraft (though I do read a

For Lesson 2, click here I had started out this next session typing out instructions and expected output, when I realized how hard this would be to truly explain in a way that would make good sense to all types of learners. It’s hard as an auditory learner to

For Part 1 of this series, click here. Now that we have a rough idea what it is we’re actually doing, we need to set up your computer so that you can actually run Ruby, the language we are going to be writing our code in. Ruby is a

So I’ve spent the last few weeks getting into web crawling. Not for any really good reason, other than I can. I started out using Cobweb, a ruby web crawler that had good ratings, just to see what it could do. And I started with my favorite site on

As 2012 begins to wind down, I think I can say that, if not this year, next year will be the year of the programmer. This year, I’ve had numerous friends who are not programmers express an interest in programming, whether it’s wanting to know how to make

As an active member in Dallas’ startup community, I have the opportunity to talk to a lot of very creative individuals, all with terrific ideas for great software services. One of the first questions they ask me, though, since the overwhelming majority of Dallas entrepreneurs are non-technical, is how in