The season of lent is over. For this season, I gave up all alcohol. For those of you that know me well, you’re aware how difficult this was for me to do. Well, you’re aware how difficult it *appeared* for me to do. The truth of the matter is: not drinking for 6 weeks was […]
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Versioning WordPress Content
Something that winds up being difficult when developing for WordPress (or Drupal, or any other database heavy CMS), is the versioning of content. Databases aren’t under your SCM directly. Because of this, deploying changes to production can be dicey. The scenario is typically something like this: Client wants 5 new pages, and a few revisions […]
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Men & Women
Recently, a friend of mine posted a link to a blog post that got me thinking about the dynamic between married men and women. I offer an opposing view to Denise’s position on the lack of effort put out by married men. Denise makes a long point to highlight the efforts she, and most women, […]
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Enterprise PHP Development
While working at EZYield, we’ve come across a shortage of qualified Enterprise Level PHP Developers. While that term might sound a bit nebulous, there’s really just a handful of things that separate the men from the boys in PHP. Honestly, those traits really aren’t even that hard to learn. They’re contradictory to the “rockstar” persona […]
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HTML5 and CSS3 Works in IE
Well, kinda … CSS can be a major headache for unseasoned front-end developers. The intricacies of layout design and how different browsers interpret them is the bane of a designers existence. The most common problem we have is how IE has handled this. With a few tools though, sanity can be restored to UI development.vFirst, […]
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Linux Deployment Scripts
A common issue in web development is getting new code to production environments. Nobody wants their site down for long, and depending on who you are a long time could be seconds or less. If you’re production environment is running a versioned instance of your code, updating that environment is as simple as using your […]
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Keep Your SSH Identity
So, I’ve been doing a ton of stuff lately on a ton of servers. Almost all of this involves using git to clone repositories into a multitude of servers. The problem with this, is that I’m limited to a single SSH key for all of my git clones. This is tricky, since shelling into a […]
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Spam Links in Head Tags of Drupal 5
Recently while at work at Phase2Technology, we got a report of bogus links being returned when searching for their site. After doing a quick search of the terms that should return their site, I got confirmation the issue was legit: What was weird though, was that when I went to the page and viewed source, […]
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David Crooks
I spoke briefly at your memorial today. I wanted to tell everyone how amazing of a person you were, and how I hope to carry your legacy with me wherever I go. I wanted to tell them that I have become a good person, doing good things, and I owe huge dividends to you for […]
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Baby Tools
So after a couple months of being a dad to twins, I’ve come up with a list of stuff that first time parents should know about. Here’s some of the most important stuff Melissa and I use: The Slumber Bear: One of the few calming things for babies is white noise. It’s the shhh noise […]