The Online Home for Eric Sowell

The Coding Humanist

A Blog of Variegated Matters

On this blog I post on all subjects not related to my studies related to Christianity. As it turns out, this usually means it ends up being my technical blog. So why don't you go visit? You might find something interesting.

Twitter

You can follow me on twitter. My twitter handle is @mallioch.

My Reading List

I needed a place to keep my reading list, so I decided to put it here. If you want to know if any particular book is worth reading, feel free to shoot me a note. And yes, I have read books before June of 2011.

September, 2012

• REST API Design Rulebook, Mark Masse

August, 2012

• The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides, Garr Reynolds
• Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture from Geek to Chic, John Borland
• Sojourn: The Dark Elf Trilogy, Part 3, R. A. Salvatore
• Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, Austin Kleon

July, 2012

• Exile: The Dark Elf Trilogy, Part 2, R. A. Salvatore

June, 2012

• Homeland: The Dark Elf Trilogy, Part 1, R. A. Salvatore
• A Defense of Virginia and the South, R. L. Dabney

May, 2012

• Humanist Educational Treatises, ed. Craig W. Kallendorf
• The Great Tradition of Christian Thinking: A Student's Guide, David S. Dockery and Timothy George
• Wool - Omnibus Edition, Hugh Howey

April, 2012

• Designing for Emotion, Aaron Walter
• Redating the New Testament, John A. T. Robinson
• Common Sense, Thomas Paine

March, 2012

• Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
• Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), Robert Spencer

January, 2012

• Terminal Freeze, Lincoln Child

December

• Books, Banks, Buttons, Chiara Frugoni
• JavaScript Web Applications, Alex MacCaw

November, 2011

• Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus, Brooks Haxton

October, 2011

• The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
• The Greek and Macedonian Art of War, Frank E. Adcock
• Thinking with Type, Ellen Lupton
• Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
• The Measure of the Magic, Terry Brooks
• Death Match, Lincoln Child

September, 2011

• Responsive Web Design, Ethan Marcotte

July, 2011

• Hackers and Painters, Paul Graham.
• Dead Sea Scrolls 1QpMic, 1QpHab, 1QapGen ar
• Apology, Crito, Plato
• Address To The Greeks, Tatian
• Presentation Zen, Garr Reynolds

June, 2011

• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
• A History of Christianity in Asia: Beginnings to 1500, Samuel Hugh Moffett
• Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered, Peter S. Wells
• Euthyphro, Plato

The picture in the background that you can hardly see was taken by Amelia-Jane. Because she was awesome enough to share this with an open license, I was able to use it. Yay freedom.

Every time I think about this project...memories. This was what kickstarted me into the world of programming. Kris was responsible for the business side of things, Jeremy the Flash bits, the installer and anything that was truly difficult technically, and I the Authorware bits, the Greek and the instructional materials.

A number of years ago we decided to stop selling it and shut down the company. I know some people still use this so, if you want it, here it is. If you find it valuable, shoot me an email. I always like to hear how my baby is helping people.

I frequently open my mouth and words come out. Sometimes I do this in public in front of groups of geeks who apparently think I have something to say. Here's my geek talk log.

Here are my upcoming geek events. Attend if the topic sounds interesting to you.

1. Html5 Canvas: Drawing Cool Stuff With JavaScript

   April, 2013

   Fort Worth DNUG

2. Topic Unannounced

   4/13/2013

   Technically Speaking

3. Touchy Browser Applications

   3/16/2013

   Cowtown Code Camp

I decided to go ahead and list my past talks. If I wait any longer, I'll probably forget too much. I know I'm already missing some but such is life.

1. Html5 Canvas: Drawing Cool Stuff With JavaScript

   2/19/2013

   Dallas HTML5 User Group

2. Going Offline

   2/9/2013

   Dallas Day of .NET

3. Html5 Canvas: Drawing Cool Stuff With JavaScript

   11/7/2012

   NDDNUG

4. Mobile Web Development with ASP.NET MVC 4

   9/6/2012

   Dallas C# SIG

5. New Stuff in Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5

   9/5/2012

   NDDNUG

6. Html5 Websockets: Real-Time Web

   8/14/2012

   Html5 User Group

7. Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC

   7/17/2012

   aspconf

8. Responsive Web Design

   3/12/2011

   Dallas Day of .NET

9. What Client-Side MV* Frameworks Can Do For You

   1/5/2011

   Dallas C# SIG

10. What You Can Do Today with Html 5 and Css 3 on Mobile Devices

    1/4/2012

    North Dallas .NET User Group

11. Full Stack Day

    12/3/2011

    North Dallas .NET User Group

12. Css for Developers

    8/12/2011

    Dallas Tech Fest

13. The What, Why and How of Client-Side MVC Frameworks

    8/12/2011

    Dallas Tech Fest

14. Beginner’s Introduction to Building Websites with ASP.NET MVC

    2/17/2011

    Dallas C# SIG

15. Intro to MVC 3

    2/8/2011

    mvcconf

16. Evolving Practices in Using jQuery and Ajax in ASP.NET MVC Applications

    2/8/2011

    mvcconf

17. Take a Walk on the Client-Side

    12/1/2010

    North Dallas .NET User Group

18. Intro to MVC 2

    6/22/2010

    mvcconf

19. Things You Can Do with the Dynamic Language Runtime

    6/2/2010

    North Dallas .NET User Group

20. Introduction to ASP.NET MVC, Part 2

    3/31/2010

    C4MVC

21. Introduction to ASP.NET MVC

    3/24/2010

    C4MVC

22. MVC2 Model Binders

    1/20/2010

    C4MVC

23. Pimpin’ Out ASP.NET MVC’s HtmlHelper

    11/11/2009

    C4MVC

24. Extensibility Techniques with ASP.NET MVC, Ajax and jQuery

    10/7/2009

    North Dallas .NET User Group

25. UI Extensibility Techniques with ASP.NET MVC Ajax and jQuery

    9/26/2009

    Houston Tech Fest

26. ASP.NET MVC

    6/3/2009

    North Dallas .NET User Group