Shawn Hilgart

Captiva, 2010

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:31:21 -0400

Captiva, 2010

Nashville, 2010

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:28:00 -0400

Nashville, 2010

Nicholas caught me off guard by showing me I ended up in Chicago...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:09:14 -0500

Nicholas caught me off guard by showing me I ended up in Chicago Style magazine’s latest release. Me, Nicholas, Mikey Scimeca, and Nate Wood are seen here looking stylish at there 15th anniversary party. Pretty cool I have not graced the pages of a magazine in some time, so its an honor to be in one again. I think its Mikey’s first time in a publication so serious congrats to him… but when you learn from one of the most stylish in chicago this was only a natural progression.

Bang!

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:53:00 -0500

I finished up a small splash page for my friends in empires all great dudes that make incredible music, sean kills it on this song, go download it for free over at Empires I think its a great direction for them and I wish them all the best in this new release.

I hope when I sit down at my desk tomorrow morning this is what...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:51:31 -0400

I hope when I sit down at my desk tomorrow morning this is what happens.

summero:

(via lukees)

I love how pizza at 1 becomes late pizza

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:50:11 -0400

I love how pizza at 1 becomes late pizza

this is the strangest thing I have seen in a while

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:22:17 -0400

this is the strangest thing I have seen in a while

Fun Flash Nav

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:52:28 -0400

After working on real projects all day I needed a break to experiment so I created this inspired by this. I really love the site that inspired it so it seemed fitting to give creating the navigation a go. I will post the source code up as soon as I comment it.

Incredible. (via vincenthaycock)

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:29:51 -0400

Incredible.

(via vincenthaycock)

Diving into linux

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:06:33 -0400

(warning nerd alert below)
Over the past few weeks I have been trying out some different linux configurations (debian, suse, and red hat) all on some reasonable hardware. I think its important that developers of any field dive into and setup a linux install… be it any distro. It give you a really good sense of using command line tools and can really drive home the differences between server side/ client side languages and techniques.

If you own/use, mac parallels is a great application to get started and play around with some linux distros without needing a dedicated machine. I have had the best luck so far with unbuntu and openSuse. Later this week I will post my install/usage feedback on all the distributions so far. Along with some instructions on getting a LAMP stack working on unbuntu in a couple easy steps, and getting vnc,ssh, and ftp configured and running locally. Nothing beats having a local test environment to test in before they go public.

Adventure Walk.

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:50:32 -0400

So… tonight I took a stroll to the local place where I buy my beer…. I see a rather young looking girl in the store, not old enough to drink by any means she politley comes up to me and says “excuse me” as she is eying some beer in the fridges.

I leave the store and walk about 2 blocks and run into this girl again, she starts a conversation about the fact that she just got back from denver, so I pry a little further into her trip, she tells me she ran away from home and got caught by the police. As I am walking I notice a missing child poster….. the picture on the poster looks familiar….. oh yeah cause its the girl that is chatting with me. I point this out; she grabs the poster rips it up and says “yeah these are no longer needed”.

She seemed like genuine character that was just didn’t enjoy living her in chicago, she cited that she just wanted to be outdoors. and this my friends is what happens when you go to the liquor store at 7 p.m. on a sunday.

Remember that Garden in a matchbook from a couple days...

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:34:23 -0400

Remember that Garden in a matchbook from a couple days ago….. yeah its growing.

Looks pretty good….

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:49:52 -0400

Looks pretty good….

Weekend in Photos Thursday - dos equis party at the muesum of...

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:25:00 -0400

Garden in a matchbox

both of these cards are insane

a drink on the plane at muesum

I might be yelling at nate

Yes I ate this.

beard is really coming along

night at the museum (real life)

night at the museum (real life)

night at the museum (real life)

Weekend in Photos

Thursday - dos equis party at the muesum of science and industry.
This party was awesome and so random best part of the night as being able to join in a drum circle for like 30 minutes. My only complaint is there were awesome DJ’s and no one dancing.

Friday/Saturday - UOI
I helped my friend down at UOI re-finish a frame it was hard work but totally worth it. I also got some super cool stuff at Art Mart (http://www.shopartmart.com/) I got some cool cards and a garden in a matchbook (we will see how it grows). I got home back to chicago later that night and watched “Ghost Ride the Whip” a documentary about the hyphy movement in the bay area.

Sunday - Farmers Market/Herb Garden
I rolled to the wicker park farmers market, and found some really great dill pickles and some marble pound cake, later I went to home depot to get some Basil and Rosemary plants to start my indoor herb garden. I have been staying in way more these days so with that I’ve been doing more and more cooking. I think fresh herbs will really help with that.

I wish I lived here

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:08:59 -0400

I wish I lived here

Working from home today…. its friday and the weather is...

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:15:26 -0400

Working from home today…. its friday and the weather is kinda gloomy outside so I think its appropriate. I have been doing a lot of night working from home as of late, which means going to the office 11-530 coming home eating maybe a nap and then work a couple more hours, followed by a small hang, followed by coming home and working some more.

Breaking the day into 4 hour blocks of coding has helped me gain some focus and let me knock out things like a task list as opposed to just being more freeform. I also ran across this method (a stack trace) while debugging my latest project and it has really helped me track down some things (method down below).

try {
        throw new Error('StackTrace');
    } catch (e:Error) {
        trace(e.getStackTrace());
    }

This will help find out the path of methods that any function has been called by, really helpful!

Fire Jam + Happy Village Every once in a while I stumble upon a...

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:29:00 -0400

these two guys are insane at ping pong

Fire Jam + Happy Village

Every once in a while I stumble upon a gem of something to do in the city. Last night my friend Garret introduced me to something called fire jam… it is a festival of fire throwers, twirlers, jugglers and breathers. It happens up north from me at montrose beach once every full moon through the summer months. info here

My next gem of a thing to do… Happy Village I can not say enough about how awesome this bar is. Every wednesday or tuesday I like to stroll into this place and get a couple games of ping pong in, YES ping pong at a bar. Its a great neighbor hood bar with decent drink specials and free ping pong. info here

And Here we go Again….. nicholasscimeca: 2009 Lollapalooza...

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:15:34 -0400

And Here we go Again…..

nicholasscimeca:

2009 Lollapalooza After Parties at Angels & Kings Chicago. Feel free to reblog or post this anywhere. This weekend WILL BE incredible and unforgettable.

The creative side always doing its thing! nicholasscimeca: Kyle...

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:27:11 -0400

The creative side always doing its thing!

nicholasscimeca:

Kyle and I designed a new desktop. You can grab it over at the company blog: wecantstopthinking.com/#/our+blog/

Finally it happened, my headphones crapped out. I’ve had...

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:26:30 -0400

I will miss you

Finally it happened, my headphones crapped out. I’ve had these Sony MDR-V150’s for 4-5 years and used them mon-friday for close to 8 hours a day. I hate when random things like these break because you are faced with a big decision… buy the same pair? try something different? or go for broke and get the upgrage?

Well I got the upgrade in the form of some Bose headphones and they sound incredible. I can’t work without music it is probably the most motivating catalyst for me to get work done. Thanks old headphones we had a good run.