zacharyc

My company is awesome. Check it out: SalesforceIQ.com. Beyond the product we build our company is based on four company values: People Moments Ideas Results Each of these values is important to the company and also personally to me. I wonder if this is why I’m so happy working with my team. In relation to my own professional development I had a conversation with one of the company’s founders recently and he told me a story about why moments was such an important value to him. He story really connected with me and I wanted to share it with you. ...

The D600 is a great camera and my first full frame camera. I’ve had it for several years now but to be honest, I haven’t taken the time to become an expert in the use of the camera. As a traditionalist I’ve used the different modes on the camera but only recently have I ventured into some of the other modes and advanced metering modes. Over the past couple of months I’ve shot several cheerleading events. When I shoot these events I normally take the pictures and convert them quickly to JPEG for the coaches to review. I started shooting directly in JPEG fine. I could fit more pictures on the card and it seemed like camera could take them quicker. The problem was that at NCA nationals I wanted higher quality images so I wanted to shoot raw. ...

When I first started this blog many years ago, my intention was to publish here regularly. I have never kept that schedule. My posts are sporadic at best. I’m often quite busy and when push comes to shove writing hasn’t been as big a focus for me. Sometimes I take my notes in paper journals, other times just in my head. Well, I’m going to make an effort to return here. Make an effort to contribute more. I’m also going to make an effort to consolidate my different personalities here. I have a bunch of websites where I post photos. I have a several places where I post personal thoughts. I’d like this place to be a hub for all of it. Hopefully you will be hearing a lot more from me soon. ...

Not sure about how many of my fellow Villanova Alumni are working as a software or hardware engineer in Silicon Valley. I know a few. One of my friends, Arts & Sciences 2005 is out here working on his own start up. Another ECE department grad is working for another software/hardware deal on security in SF. Not to mention John Hennessy, president at Stanford University. In the mail today was another request to donate to the Alumni Fund and send in a note about where we are and what we are doing. While there is merit in sending this to the university, posting it here serves the same purpose in my book. ...

At work we were trying to create a custom UITableViewCell. We wanted something that looked like this: Here are some of the factors that made this problem more difficult: Our one custom cell was in a UITableView of regular cells The fonts for each of the items in the cell were pretty consistent with the rest of the table view Like every other cell, we wanted to it to be indented based on cell.separatorInset I looked at several ways to approach this. I tried using a custom table view. I tried subclassing a UITableViewCell. I finally landed on trying to override the tableView:willDisplayCell:forRowAtIndexPath: and it is worth explaining why. ...