I’ve been doing writing exercises off and on but never with a clear purpose in mind, just “write more". I recently read about a book called “3 A.M. Epiphany" which was chock full of exercises so I decided to pick it up. Boy am I glad I did. Not only is it full of different exercises but the author has several suggestions on what to do and how...

I’ve been doing writing exercises off and on but never with a clear purpose in mind, just “write more". I recently read about a book called “3 A.M. Epiphany" which was chock full of exercises so I decided to pick it up. Boy am I glad I did. Not only is it full of different exercises but the author has several suggestions on what to do and how...

Use associative logic in a narration a child tells to an adult. The child can be any age between five and ten. The story itself is a dramatic monologue. Don’t let us hear the adult’s questions or complaints about the anarchic nature of the story— although they can be implied by answers or responses from the child and shifts in the momentum of...

Use associative logic in a narration a child tells to an adult. The child can be any age between five and ten. The story itself is a dramatic monologue. Don’t let us hear the adult’s questions or complaints about the anarchic nature of the story— although they can be implied by answers or responses from the child and shifts in the momentum of...

Write a first-person story in which you use the first-person pronoun (I or me or my) only two times— but keep the I somehow important to the narrative you’re constructing. The point of this exercise is to imagine a narrator who is less interested in himself than in what he is observing. You can make your narrator someone who sees an interesting...

Write a first-person story in which you use the first-person pronoun (I or me or my) only two times— but keep the I somehow important to the narrative you’re constructing. The point of this exercise is to imagine a narrator who is less interested in himself than in what he is observing. You can make your narrator someone who sees an interesting...

Write a brief story in which the major event or action is obscured— or easily overlooked— because of a splashier, more visible event. Sleight of hand, or the French phrase leger de main, means crafty or light hand. The magician captures the attention of the audience with one hand while performing the trick with the other hand. You should not...

Write a brief story in which the major event or action is obscured— or easily overlooked— because of a splashier, more visible event. Sleight of hand, or the French phrase leger de main, means crafty or light hand. The magician captures the attention of the audience with one hand while performing the trick with the other hand. You should not...

Tonight: Figure out why the startup isn’t happening on time now Clearly I’m misunderstanding gulp flow a bit here as there are some things that aren’t happening in the right order with my new setup test data and clear test data OK, got things wired up so they happen in the right order, but for some reason convict is not respecting my...

Tonight: Figure out why the startup isn’t happening on time now Clearly I’m misunderstanding gulp flow a bit here as there are some things that aren’t happening in the right order with my new setup test data and clear test data OK, got things wired up so they happen in the right order, but for some reason convict is not respecting my...

This week: Finish up Angular front-end Day 1 1/19/2015 Today: Figure out why my constants aren’t being loaded/injected properly, file is there, but it just isn’t working :/ http://mindthecode.com/how-to-use-environment-variables-in-your-angular-app lication oops, realized I forgot to inject it into one of my services that needed it Sweet, now I...

This week: Finish up Angular front-end Day 1 1/19/2015 Today: Figure out why my constants aren’t being loaded/injected properly, file is there, but it just isn’t working :/ http://mindthecode.com/how-to-use-environment-variables-in-your-angular-app lication oops, realized I forgot to inject it into one of my services that needed it Sweet, now I...

This week: Finish up API endpoints Start on web/angular side of project Day 1 1/12/15 Today: PUT /todos/:id - update a todo OK, got this working with a basic test https://github.com/warnero/node-todo-api/commit/dc0e0d24176080883c6c8429a66 9a7373ebb2488 Next steps: Start on Angular front-end and see if we can get that bit working by end of week...

This week: Finish up API endpoints Start on web/angular side of project Day 1 1/12/15 Today: PUT /todos/:id - update a todo OK, got this working with a basic test https://github.com/warnero/node-todo-api/commit/dc0e0d24176080883c6c8429a66 9a7373ebb2488 Next steps: Start on Angular front-end and see if we can get that bit working by end of week...

Decided to do things a little bit differently and publish this as a weekly update kind of thing instead of each day as I didn’t like all the posts separated (and a few too many IMO). This week I’ll try and do one post for the whole week and update it as I go along. This week: Get more tests working See if we can get started on the web side of...