Author: Orlando Villarreal

Life

2024 Resolutions and Goals

With every new year, everyone will make goals and or resolutions, goals of what they want to accomplish for the year. Or sometimes people don’t make goals and that is ok too. I for one like to make goals that I hope to accomplish for this year. I think this...

January 7, 2024
Soapbox

What Apple Needs to Bring To 2024’s OS Updates

Another year, another round of updates to all of apples many devices, but this year had some good ones, and not so good updates. The ability to do quick contact sharing, and customizing your own contact call card, to even some great safety features like check in and lockdown mode....

November 7, 2023
Life

Texas Dreaming 2023 Announcement

What is texas dreaming you asked? It’s a Salesforce event for all of Texas to come and learn about more Salesforce, its for networking, meeting people, shaking hands, and overall a pretty good event that takes place over 2 days....

April 26, 2023
Life

Time Off

A sabbatical, time off, mental recovery, vacation, R & R or rest and relaxation are all terms used to describe times when we need to gather ourselves and focus on a mental recharge. One of the things I wish to discuss is when and how often you should be taking...

May 22, 2022
Soapbox

Apple…2 Steps Forward…1 Step Back

Apple has always been a company about pressing forward, creating the all in one Mac, changing the music industry with the iPod series, followed by the iPhone which disrupted the phone industry. To Apple it was always about creating innovation but not so much nowadays. Nowadays Apple’s marketing and design...

October 30, 2021
Reviews

My Thoughts on Apples Spring Loaded Event

With another spring we get another Apple event. This time its called “Spring Loaded” which they had on 4/20…which they totally should of called it “Spring Baked” but I digress, this is one of Apples few conferences this year where they show off their new products coming out within that...

April 25, 2021
Book Review , Reviews

Book Review: Leading Creative Teams

What makes a creative lead? Is it someone who understands design? Someone who knows how to fake it till they make it? What turns a creative into a creative director? Is it something people have versus what others might not have? Due to my background, I have been on Creative...

November 19, 2020
Book Review , Reviews

Review: Python Crash Course

The Python Crash Course book is essentially a bootcamp put into a book. This is a very lengthy book, it isn’t something you can do overnight but is something that can take weeks and weeks because there is a lot to cover. It goes from not knowing code to building...

October 19, 2020
Life

Working From Home – Part 1 – Getting Adjusted

Over the past week, due to the virus outbreak currently happening, a lot of companies are moving from in-office to full remote for their workers. I have had a few friends ask me how I got adjusted with working from home without getting insanely bored or distracted. Hopefully this will...

March 22, 2020
App Reviews , Reviews

Review: Trailhead GO

With Dreamforce going on, Salesforce dropped something that many had hoped for, for a long time. They have released Trailhead GO, which shifts the entire desktop experience to mobile. Since it was released I have spent the last few days diving into it, here are my initial impressions....

November 21, 2019
Soapbox

Make It Hollywood: ALIEN OBLIVION

To celebrate Halloween this year, I decided to share an idea I had for the next Alien film, especially since it may or may not be happening since now Disney owns the entire Alien Universe. So everyone who knows me knows I am a movie person. I love going to...

October 31, 2019
Coding , Soapbox

Building A Healthy Coding Lifestyle

You get hired by a company. They supply endless snacks, drinks and you have to become a coding machine so you find yourself never leaving your desk, constantly chugging down energy drinks and snacking . We as developers can fall into this snackhole trap where we never leave our chair...

August 12, 2019