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5 Steps to Becoming a Web Development All-Star 22 Mar 2011 | 03:04 pm
I’ve enjoyed great success as a web developer – from my early days in 1999 building websites for clients via RentACoder.com, through my tenure as the CodeIgniter Community Chieftain, to where I am tod...
Tiara: HTML5 Game Engine 23 Jan 2011 | 02:06 am
Update 3: The demo page has been updated to feature an index of currently completed demos. After a long day of working on image/sprite support I took a break from engine development and built up a qui...
Fun with APIs: KnowYourTrend.com 8 Jan 2011 | 03:33 am
What started as just an exercise in toying with a vast array of APIs has officially launched as of last night, KnowYourTrend.com. As I combined the various APIs together, into a single comprehensive c...
2010 Wrap-Up, Goals for 2011 2 Jan 2011 | 04:04 pm
Inspired by Phil Sturgeon’s own Year in Review, I thought it would be good to reflect back on 2010 and set some goals for 2011. 2010, in general, was a pretty rough year – a lot of downs and the few u...
CodeIgniter Presentations 7 Dec 2010 | 08:16 pm
Some would call me crazy, but I love building presentations and speaking to others – especially in regards to subjects I care about. I recently had a reason to start building a deck discussing the ben...
The Development Interview 28 Nov 2010 | 04:57 pm
As the Senior Software Engineer on my project, I spend quite a bit of time with the Project Manager reviewing resumes and interviewing applicants. Typically, if a resume is remotely interesting we’ll ...
Income Tracking & Prediction with Ledgerist 25 Nov 2010 | 06:38 am
A few years ago there was a real race between Mint and Intuit’s Quickbooks Online. We all know Mint, with it’s focus on historical data, budget planning, and seeing where your money is going won the r...
CodeIgniter, The Honeymoon Phase is Over 24 Nov 2010 | 07:27 am
A lot of things have been going on within the CodeIgniter community – well, let’s rephrase that – very little has been going on within the CodeIgniter community and this has brought about a lot of cha...
Mirror Django’s get_object_or_404 in CodeIgniter 24 Apr 2010 | 01:52 am
Django has an excellent function that assists in working with models, get_object_or_404. As Python functions tend to, the name of this function is pretty descriptive: we attempt to get an object (from...
Adding a Facebook Like Button to Your Posts 22 Apr 2010 | 07:33 am
Facebook just announced their Facebook Social Plugins, a collection on one-liner tools that allows your users to engage and promote your content using Facebook. One of these “plugins” is the infamous ...
