Written by Scott Williams who lives and works in sunny Phoenix, AZ. Twitter is also a place.

How I Finally Understood Functional Programming With JavaScript

Functional programming has always been a bit of a mindbender for me. I’ve read plenty of tutorials on the subject, but it wasn’t until…

In Which I Purchased a New Car

A couple of weeks ago I bought a Scion FR-S . It’s my first non-boring car and so far I’m really liking it. To understand why, here’s my…

Things I Learned While Making a Simple Game For My Daughters

Recently I put together a basic iPad game for my girls (aged 5 and 2). It’s the first real 1 game I’d ever created and I found the process…

Your JavaScript Sucks - Rudiments

You have to crawl before you walk. You have to punch before you can Hadoken. – Abraham Lincoln This post is most likely too simplistic for…

Your JavaScript Sucks

JavaScript has been getting a lot of press lately. You can write servers with it, talk to databases , and of course, it’s the most…

My Reaction to the Rumor that Nikon is Looking to Buy WebOS

In the span of about 30 seconds. “What? WHY ?” Thinks for a minute about a sweet WebOS powered camera. “Well, it could work” Thinks about…

My New Email Signature

Spurred on by some of the more recent mails I’ve received. I did blur my phone number and address because there are bad people out there…

How I Setup a PhotoBooth

First, a Demo Video 1 I was slated to take some pictures for my church’s high school group’s kick off for the new school year. They gave…

Haven't Heard Back Yet

I just couldn’t help myself.

Nice Feature in Lion

Actually, this may have preceded Lion, but I rarely use Safari so I don’t know. My Internet connection died (thanks Cox!). Opened a page in…

I Think the Cable Companies are Screwed

I just ordered two Roku boxes for our house. We have a Netflix Instant subscription, and will likely be converting our Hulu Plus trial into…

Spotify & Rdio

And now, here’s my arbitrary and subjective look at Spotify and Rdio. Spotify has now launched in the US. This is good news. I had…

Kind of Screwed - Devil's Advocate Edition

Andy Baio’s 8-bit version of Miles Davis’s seminal album is pretty interesting. Not really my style, but it’s very well done. Unfortunately…

I Got Your AirPrint Right Here

Due to various circumstances, my wife’s computer can’t connect to the printer (the problem rhymes with “Bindows Vista”). Her solution is to…

Trip Report: OneLight Workshop

It’s been a whirlwind last 48 hours, and I now finally have a few minutes. My mind is still spinning. My Saturday, Sunday, (and part of…

Rails 3 Routing Gotcha

Since I have a certain level of self-loathing I decided to upgrade our app to the latest version of Rails (as of now, 3.0.3 ). Rails 3 is a…

Religion and Signs

From a  collection of signs  from the Sanity Rally in DC.

More on Why I'm Done Building PC's

This whole post by Marco Arment is great , but here’s the best part: Ever build a carputer? (Yeah, that’s a computer in your car.) I…

Android 2.2's Calculator App

It looks pretty good without blatantly copying the Apple UI.

Nice UI: FogBugz World Tour

Located at:  http://worldtour.fogcreek.com/ They aren’t coming to Phoenix though (of course).