joshrivera – {gamedev, music, coffee}

Here is a quick walk through of my baby changing table build. As a new daddy to be, I’ve been reading, researching and preparing my home for baby Jacob’s arrival. A changing table is an item that I have come across time and time again as a nursery essential...

Where was this when I was growing up! While growing up I was a huge fan of Legos. Legos offered me the opportunity to bring into life, physically into the world, the things I imagined. My imagination in a physical form, built and designed by my own hands...

I needed an affordable media center.  I was looking for something with clean lines, had some architectural details, sufficient storage for media and gaming, and something that matched my home remodel.
For several years my home was very modern, dark woods, black furniture, leather and my walls were painted with several variations of gray tones.  I had a lot of black and white industrial photographs and it had a heavy urban city life kind of feel, including...

Laravel framework is awesome. I’ve been using it for several weeks and it has improved my coding and has allowed me to put together a site structure faster than ever before.
I will say there is a bit of a learning curve with it, but if you are a novice PHP developer, this is a great way to speed up your coding and get your project off the ground....