Contributing to the Elixir Language

I guess you could say that I'm an Elixir core contributor now, no big deal. Elixir came back onto my radar recently because someone made a pull request to a library that I had written and promptly abandoned over a year ago. Even just working through the simple fix for…

List Maker

List Maker is a fun side project written in Ember. It utilizes the EmberFire and Torii addons to authenticate (so far, only using Facebook) and store data via the Firebase service. Anonymous users can browse and read lists. Authenticated uses can start new lists and add items to any list.…

Ember Firebase Demo

I created this follow-along demo for my User Authentication Made Easy with Firebase tutorial. It's written in Ember and uses the EmberFire and Torii addons for authenticating via the Firebase service. It also makes use of the Bootstrap and Font Awesome addons to make it more visually appealing. The app…

User Authentication Made Easy with Firebase

Note: This tutorial is for version 2.x of the Firebase SDK and some of its content may be outdated. No matter what sort of application you're creating, you almost always have to allow your app's users to sign in and out. Including user authentication functionality in a project is…

Changing hosting providers

Literally minutes after I started splashing this newly launched freelance portfolio site all over my social media yesterday, my hosting provider went down. What luck, huh? I should have anticipated it, though. Linode, my hosting provider, had been under attack for the past week or so (you can read all…

Object Version System

Written in Javascript, using Ember with the Bootstrap addon for the interface and Express and MongoDB for serving and managing the data, this commission was a simple UI to be used on a company's intranet for viewing the differences between various versions of JSON objects. The user clicks on an…