TJ Barber

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Really enjoyed recording this episode (as I do all of our episodes!) and getting a chance to talk a little bit about working with Ruby on Rails. Still my favorite web framework to work with by far.

→ 7:23 PM, Feb 24

I found life and I found laughter. In forgiveness, I found rest.

On the shoulders of redemption, I found hope when hope was dead.

I could lose it in a moment, so I dare not close my eyes.

I’ll watch fear fall with the sunset and see hope rise with the tide.

And when the pain is true, sometimes these troubles prove that I’m alive.

My eyes are open, my heart is beating,

My lungs are full, and my body’s breathing.

I’m moving forward. I found my freedom.

I found the life that gave me reason to live.

→ 2:49 PM, Feb 20

WWII Memorial in Gonzales, LA.

→ 6:10 PM, Feb 14

One of my better pictures of the Island in the Sky. Taken at the Canyonlands National Park in Moab, Utah. Again, taken with an iPhone 7 Plus.

→ 1:56 PM, Feb 13

I remember walking out of Ross’s with my wife and a close friend of mine and this was the view we saw from the parking lot. We were on our way to Moab, Utah on a spontanious road trip.

It’s an interesting picture. Half of the picture is an ordinary parking lot, but the other half is a beautiful mountain. Shot in Glenwood Springs, Colorado with an iPhone 7 Plus.

→ 1:06 PM, Feb 12

Jenni and I spent Saturday at Virginia Beach, mostly listening to the waves and enjoying the sunset. She got this shot on her iPhone 7 Plus.

→ 4:27 PM, Dec 31

My Thoughts on Sherlock

If you’re not using Sherlock for view debugging on iOS, in short I highly recommend it! There have been numerous occasions where I’ve been trying to get a stack view to behave properly, figure out why my programmatic constraint doesn’t look right, etc and having a visual element inspector similar to the one we have in Google Chrome is extremely helpful.

Last week, I was helping a coworker setup a simple UITableViewCell that had a label, a small pill view, and a UISwitch inside of it. He was using a UIStackView to contain the label and pill and it wasn’t being displayed he wanted. He could spend 15 minutes changing properties on the stack view to get it to display right, but instead I told him to download Sherlock and he had it working in a couple minutes.

I’m not a sponsor of Sherlock, I just really like it and it has saved me tons of time. Go sign up for the beta here!

→ 2:57 PM, Dec 26

Virginia is an amazing place, but part of me will always be in Colorado.

→ 2:25 PM, Dec 26