My First Half Marathon: Race Recap And Experience

Last December, my friend surprised me with an entry to the Denver Colfax Half-Marathon. I had just reached my goal of 100 miles in one year, and was ecstatic for...

Mail: How Do I Switch To A Career In Software?

In their 25th annual Jobs Rated report, CareerCast ranked Software Engineering as the #3 best job out of 200 for 2013. I’ve been working as a developer for 6 years...

How To Send A SMS Message With Python (easy way)

Python is a high-level programming language. It’s easy to read, has great libraries, and is well documented. On top of it, it’s extremely versatile and powerful. Python is my favorite...

Sending Netflix OAuth Requests With Python

Oauth is an authentication protocol which allows users to grant a third-party access to their resources - without sharing their password. Kind of similar to creating a temporary key to...

A Summary And Analysis Of Running In 2012

WARNING: Lots of statistics and graphs below. Proceed at your own risk. Below is a brief summary and analysis of all my runs in 2012. All in all, I ran...

1 Year. 77 Runs. 125 Miles.

I set a goal to run 100 miles in 2012. At the time, I thought it was going to be a breeze. 100 miles came out to a little over...

Make Your Own Luck

During my last semester of college, I was offered a sys admin internship from a customer at the deli I worked at. To this day, my parents still tell me...