Well the good news is uninstalling xCode and reinstalling it via the App Store worked. Brew doctor no longer throws that warning, but it threw a couple of warnings related to Python. I've uninstalled it and I'm running brew doctor again. Hopefully that will get it. It found some other things it didn't like very much either. I hope they're related to Python, but if they weren't I know I was messing around with some commandline stuff and node a couple of years ago, it's probably left over from that, but I'm too afraid to delete it incase I break something. I may just ignore it for now, it's just warnings, not errors at this point. Jekyll here I come!

Jekyll is installing now. I can't wait to get it going. While I'm waiting I'm still working on Scope & Closures from YDKJS.
Jekyll's in, Kramdown is in, Rouge is in.

I found a great site that seems to be basically Jekyll for Dummies. :) CloudCannon

Unebelievably I've been at this over an hour now. No code written, I did work through some Java problems for my Algorithm course through Coursera today though. My brain is fried. I'm still pushing towards my goal though so I'm satisfied, well satisfied enough anyways.

I'm concerned about getting an hour in of actual coding. I'm working on things for it, but I'm so not at a place where I can just sit down and start coding something. I started today by reviewing ruby so I could use Jekyll to put my blog on Github. I looked at Ruby, found out I need, or should have, a package manager. The Ruby website recommended Homebrew so I went there. I'm in the process of installing Homebrew, but that entire world is so foreign to me. I read through a bunch of the information on the Homebrew site, but even that is more advanced so I googled for some guidance or an overview. I found this great little article called Homebrew Demystified. I feel so much better now. The article was so helpful I wanted to get this down before it got lost in the shuffle. I'm still waiting on Terminal to finish installing Homebrew so I'll go back to my YDKJS book. Up and Going suggested I jump to Scope & Closures so I'm working through that one now. I figure even if I'm not actually coding at least I'm working towards getting myself to a better coding place. I have two different ideas for apps I'd like to build. The first I think will do well starting life as a webapp. I looked briefly at what it takes to build a webapp from scratch and it seems like I am a loooooong ways from there still. I'm going to start planning one of them out properly tonight though. Again, not actual code, but working towards my coding goals nonetheless.

Homebrew installed! ran brew doctor, apparently my xCode is way out of date. *sigh So I went to the App Store to update xCode as Homebrew told me I could. It said there was a new update to developer tools today to 9.2 which is exactly what Homebrew told me I needed. Sweet! Homebrew was still unhappy so I closed the Terminal window and then Terminal to start a whole new session. Still out of date... :( WTF Dude!? I did a reboot. Still out of date. Checked the App Store again, but this time I searched for xCode and apparently it's not installed... Ummmm... Okay Google, what say you?

So, apparently if I installed xCode in this magical way that wasn't through the App Store Mac hates me. Happily, Google also said I can just delete xCode from the Application folder and all will be right with the world.
Keep your fingers crossed for me...
It's deleted, I even closed Terminal just to be on the safe side.
"brew doctor" is running...
Bah! Still out of date. Now what? Lets install it from the App Store then. It's got 17+ hours left. I guess I don't get everything done on my computer tonight. On the plus side, I can still go work on my app thumbnails and functionality design.

Stupid computer... lol

I started 100 Days of Code today. I wanted to host this through my Github, but to do that it looks like you need to use Jekyll and to use Jekyll you need to use Ruby. My coding plan for today was to set up my blog on Github, but it looks quite in depth. I will continue with You Don't Know JS: Up and Going for now. I'm working my way through all the examples.

I guess I really started my 100 Day of Code yesterday because I put in a good hour coding, but I officially tweeted it today so I'll go with today. I'm excited to start. I'm working on my CS degree and my courses right now don't involve programming so I'm feeling rusty and I miss it. My primary focus is going to me javascript throughout this challenge, but I'm also taking an algorithm course through Coursera and that is taught with Java so I'll play with that a bit too.

I've worked with both languages in the past so I don't think it should be too bad doing them both. Once I brush up on my js I'm going to start going through some of the beginner open source projects on Github. I've never contributed to anything before, but I know there are lots recommended for beginners and I will contribute. I'm not terribly comfortable with Github too so that's part of the reason. I've only put my own stuff on it, never contributed. I know that's super important career wise so I'm killing two birds with one stone this round of 100 Days of Code. I'm also going to get my blog up and running there too, but I don't want to forget everything before the weekend when I'll have time to focus on it.

Christmas Lives!

As you can see Christmas is still going strong in my house. We've been so busy trying to fit in all the family stuff that all our decorations are still up and about. I absolutely love the candy cane stripe decorations.

The lighting was pretty poor in our hallway so the picture ended up with a bit of noise from the high ISO. I wanted to play with the angle a little to give a different perspective to something so mundane.

Numero Uno

I went out for coffee and a wonderful walk with my two closest friends from high school this morning. The three of us haven't been able to get together for a long time, so this was a nice short but sweet get together. I almost missed this shot, but one of the ducks caught my eye as we walked by and I just had to capture it.

I shot this on a grey early afternoon with my Sony Cybershot I bought last year. It's been a great point and shoot. This was one of three point and shoots that had a viewfinder for me to choose from. Sigh.