A fun and easy hike in Colorado Springs with no hard climbing that leads to a rewarding westerly view of Pike's Peak and the Front Range.
A unique book for writers that belongs in the pantheon of great books about the craft.
A short demonstration of how to quickly hide gizmos in the Scene View of the Unity Editor.
A fuzzy little flower in the San Isabel National Forest.
Photograph of Gog Rock in Manitou Springs, Colorado.
Photograph taken on the Mt. Muscoco Trail in Colorado Springs, after a heavy snow.
Photograph taken at 11 Mile Canyon in Lake George, Colorado.
An expanded version of the Unreal Engine 4 documentation tree.
A unique story with amazing prose, but a little too much fat.
Using RimRaf for Node.js, which mimics the UNIX/LINUX command, rm -rf.
First in a six-part Mother's Day tribute to my mom.
A memory of Mom, a .45 pistol, and a litter of kittens.
Learn about SPARQL, the query language for Linked Data and the Semantic Web, with example queries for the DBPedia SPARQL endpoint.
Build a progressive web app that delivers WordPress content using Ionic, Angular, and the WordPress API.
A quick tutorial on how to apply texture to an object in ZBrush.
A C# script to give an object a repetitive, but smooth upward and downward movement.
A C# script for Unity can be used to make an object look toward the direction of its current velocity.
A C# script for Unity can be used to make an object look (turn smoothly) toward the direction it is being moved.
A C# script for Unity to make an object follow another.
A procedure for using Spotlight to display reference images in ZBrush.
How to weld multiple subtools together to create one seamless mesh.
Hidden in ZBrush, there’s a fabulously detailed female anatomy model that comes out-of-the-box.
My notes on ZBrush keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) and control.
A quick procedure for using MicroMesh in ZBrush.
How to create a new polygroup of a masked area in ZBrush.
A list of online resources related to ZBrush.
You can rig an existing mesh with a ZSphere armature, allowing you to pose the mesh by manipulating the underlying armature.
My study notes on the Sculptris Pro features in ZBrush.
Learn to use the real-time boolean operations in ZBrush.
Apply different materials to different SubTools in ZBrush with 5 simple steps.
Procedure for deleting hidden geometry in ZBrush and optionally capping open holes.
Here’s a procedure to setup ZBrush and record your own speed-sculpt video.
Example SPARQL queries that can help you list the classes in an ontology.
Various examples for using SELECT in SPARQL queries.
A recipe for responding to a button click with an RxJS Observable.
Share the memories of what it truly meant to be born in slavery.
How to install Oracle Java 8 on Ubuntu (in may case, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
A list of inspiring quotes from writers, for writers.
Cheat sheet of commonly used docker commands.
This technique is one that can help you create a solid pacing with the powerful and emotional experience that readers crave.
One RDF example in seven different serialization formats.
SPARQL query examples using 'ASK'.
Federate data from 2 endpoints with SPARQL.
Example use of FILTER in SPARQL queries.
Example use of INSERT to add data with SPARQL.
Example use of the LIMIT keyword in SPARQL.
Example negation in SPARQL with the MINUS keyword.
Example use of ORDER BY in SPARQL
SPARQL query that counts all statements (triples) in a repository.
An example SPARQL query for retrieving one given page of results.
An example SPARQL query for resources within a given date range.
Lost, Broken, and on the Run From the FBI; a gripping memoir of resilience and liberation.
A memory of when my sister tried to kill herself (I think).
A procedure for personalizing IBM Web Content Manager content with URL query parameters.
Here are seven of the most important ZBrush brushes you’ll ever use. Begin your practice with these.
My collection of handy Linux, Unix, and Mac OS terminal commands.
A macro plugin I made for Atlassian Confluence that mimics a Bootstrap 3 Panel.
Quick and simple tips to get your Spring Boot logs rolling.
Angular provides a Title service that you can use to set the title of a page. Here’s how to use it.
View your whole life in a sobering glance with this life time calendar.
In order to think, sometimes you have to power through a little boredom.
How format a number into currency with the Angular currency pipe.
A story structure diagram to help you plan and plot your novel.
How to get and print the index (or the iteration number) of the current item in an ngFor loop.
Need a quick and easy caching system for your web app?
A memory of the first time I saw a dead body.
C# scipt to get rigidbody from object the script is applied to in Unity.
Yes, there is a right way and a wrong way and you WILL be judged.
How to add a user defined dictionary for your IDE's spelling checker.
How to use the FindLargeResources module to perform an audit for large files in WCM.
How to share a security context between WebSphere Portal and a custom web app deployed on the same server.
Example Java code and example output values for getter methods on the HttpServletRequest object.
You don't need to write a Spring controller to map to a view when no controller logic is required. Here's how...
Unity behavior script that rotates object 90 degrees when the script’s rotate function is called.
How to install the Oracle (not OpenJDK) Java Plugin for 64bit Firefox on CentOS 6.4
In your Eclipse IDE, you can automatically build and consume one project into another as a Java jar file. Here's how.
A fond memory of my Commodore 64 and the first computer program I ever wrote.
With Servlet 3.0, it's now possible to define your servlet using Java annotations instead of using XML in the web.xml file. Here's how...
An example wasadmin script (in Jython) that demonstrates how to create and/or update custom properties for resource environment providers.
How to use the AccessControlRuntimeModelBean to get the current access control permissions on a resource.
Here's how to use the UserBean, (a Portal EL bean available since version 7) for convenient access to the attributes of the authenticated user.
On Information Architecture - Concepts, Definitions, Taxonomies, and Navigation Breadth and Depth.
How the concept of work-life balance might create a mental division that doesn't serve you well.
Procedure for shrinking a Windows virtual machine on VMWare Fusion for the Mac.
Two awesome Unity behavior scripts that you can download and use for free right now!
An easy way to find keyboard commands in the Unity game development tool.
First of a multi-part series teaching how to build a player health status indicator for the Unity GUI.
An example-based reminder to make reduction a conscious part of your writing process.
Here's a tool that can help you search through JAR files to find Java classes or packages.
Sometimes ClassNotFound can mean the class was actually found 2 or more times - a conflict in the classloader.
A 10 minute Lunch Byte to help you improve your skills using security in IBM Workplace Web Content Management.
Understand the role and capabilities of a Library in IBM Web Content Manager.
How to get the keys and values of a Map (such as a HashMap) from within a Freemarker template.
A reference table of common LDAP error codes and error constants with possible causes.
A glossary of commonly used acronyms and terms related to LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) and LDIF (LDAP Data Interchange Format).
Get a quick list of IBM DB2 commands.
A list of the system properties that can be accessed in Java code with System.getProperty