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Sometimes when life has stunted your growth, its time for a change. It can either be large change or sometimes just a temporary change of scene to get yourself fired up!

I went out west for a long weekend with some friends to go snowboarding. I needed a break from the negativity that was starting to cloud my mind. So what does your mind think about when your heading down a steep black diamond trail? How fast can I go and how do I not hurt myself. Well luckily keeping my mind focused on just those two simple things changed my perspective. I didn’t have time for any doubts, I didn’t have time to think about other things. So the universe picked up on the positive vibes I was feeling. The freedom of flying down at my peak this weekend which was 43mph cleared my doubts my fears and brought about a new sense of pride and joy.

The universe greeted me with some new job opportunities. I have a phone interview this week, and possibly some others. So if your feeling blue, tired, bored, or just not yourself. Find a way to push yourself, to test yourself, to challenge yourself, and yes get in touch with nature! It helps to enjoy life when your seeing the world at 6000 + feet! Thank you Steamboat Mountain for the trails, for the lifts, and the gorgeous views!

Why are there those who don’t want to hear reason? Why are there those who only want to hear YES. Why are there those that regardless of research, or data to prove their ideas are on the wrong path still want to push forward?

Why penalize those individuals for speaking their mind? Why shun those who want to grow, and learn from mistakes, who want to read and research things before executing plans?

Why not listen to the skilled and trained employees you hired?

I’d rather be the employee that listens, that questions, that researches, that comes up with ideas and solutions to problems. I’d rather be acknowledged not for agreeing and seeing projects fail, but for questioning and seeing possible issues before we waste the time and money on execution. I value my time and my work, wouldn’t you want an employee whose ideals are in your best interest than those who just agree with you?

From the inception of our game, I have been advocating that we should release Red’s Journey as a free app. I have researched and read articles about other developers trying to get the reach they were looking for, and through their trials and tribulations have come to the same conclusion.

There are times that you have no control over the strategy, the execution of the marketing plan. Regardless of the data you provide, the research you provide, sometimes it’s out of your control and you have to let those in charge fail, and see what could have been done to make it a success, hoping that they see how my recommendations would have made it a success.

My plan was to showcase the app as how a Eye Glass Company was breaking barriers by exploring new avenues. To release the game as a free app, and donate our AD revenue to the charities we partnered with. That plan was not approved regardless of the data that was provided.

So with the current marketing plan, with our partners advertising the game as well, and showcasing our app at a Vision Expo with an estimated 20,000+ of attendees and vendors, this was our final stats.

386,350 Impressions (Daily Average) – The number of times your app showed up on the App Store.

1,827 Product Page Views (Daily Average) – The number of times your app’s App Store page has been viewed on devices with iOS 8 or tvOS 9, or later.

45 App Units – Each app purchase on a device with iOS 8 or tvOS 9, or later.

34 Sessions – The number of times the app has been used for at least two seconds.

As one of the team members, it saddens me that this could have been more successful, that we could have raised a lot more money for charity, had they looked at the data, and looked at the research, and looked at my recommendations with an open mind.

So I built a wordpress site for my company, I made them a template for creating parallax areas. Everything was working perfectly but then…. dun dun dun! The request came in to upload a mobile version of the image.

Normally this wouldn’t be an issue, but the problem lies that I was creating the section with inline style of the background image.

I tried doing some javascript checks and that worked perfectly when the page loaded for the first time. The resize function created all sorts of a mess!

The solution creating a media query and inserting my php variables of the background images, so before each section i am adding some styling and that was my non elegant solution. But one that works!!!

Here is link to the work in progress… wordpress parallax template

Got this warning!

DEPRECATION WARNING on line 87 of /Applications/CodeKit.app/Contents/Resources/engines/compass/compass-core/stylesheets/compass/css3/_deprecated-support.scss: #{} interpolation near operators will be simplified
in a future version of Sass. To preserve the current behavior, use quotes:

unquote(‘”$moz-“#{$experimental-support-for-mozilla} “$webkit-“#{$experimental-support-for-webkit} “$opera-“#{$experimental-support-for-opera} “$microsoft-“#{$experimental-support-for-microsoft} “$khtml-“#{$experimental-support-for-khtml}’)

You can use the sass-convert command to automatically fix most cases.

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After several hours of trying to figure out what was creating some extra padding on my website. I resorted to removing some new code that varied from my static build which behaved as I expected.

After about 20 minutes, I found the culprit. It was a social media plugin I was using. The widget itself worked great but it ruined my layout.  So I removed it and found another solution.

Lesson learned: Great to have a static site to see how it behaved before you start adding widgets and dynamic data. So if it works on the static and broken on your new implementation, start removing additions and see where the problem lies.  This would have saved me hours of stress since I was sure my css and code were good!