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January 4, 2016

Book Dust Jackets

I’ve been a digital reader most of my adult life but for the past year I’ve been trying to reduce my screen time and started buying real books.

January 1, 2016

Just 20 Pages- A Goal To Read More

For the past two years, I’ve made the same new years goal, read more books.

December 30, 2015

2015 In Numbers

At the end of every year I like to look back and see what all I accomplished.

December 28, 2015

How To Teach Your Child To Ride A Bicycle And Be Safe

For almost a decade I was a motorcycle safety instructor and taught a lot of students how to ride and more importantly how to ride safely.

November 14, 2015

A Trip To Mount Mitchell

Living just outside of Charlotte, NC I have the ability to drive west a few hours and be in some of the most beautiful parts of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

October 14, 2015

How to send both HTML and Plain Text Password Reset Emails in Laravel 5.1

Laravel comes with an included Authentication system complete with password resets that saves you from the burden of having to set it manually on all your...

September 26, 2015

Get The Most Popular Posts From The WordPress API

As of right now the WordPress plugin directory holds 40,367 plugins.

September 11, 2015

Install ALL Google fonts on your Mac

Lately, I’ve been designing a lot of blog post images and finding a good font from the list of defaults is sometimes hard.

August 28, 2015

Passing Referrer data from SSL

Google is now recommending all sites to start moving to HTTPS by installing an SSL certificate.

August 27, 2015

A first look at the Flarum Forum Software

Flarum is a new open source PHP forum system developed by Toby Zerner and Franz Liedke.

August 26, 2015

Ninjagrl Art

A few months back I decided to rework my entire office. I had grown tired of a tiny corner desk that would only hold a desktop computer and a keyboard.

August 19, 2015

The Martian Trailer

I haven’t been this excited to see a movie in a long time. I just finished the book last weekend and it’s all still fresh in mind.

August 4, 2015

How to set up your Mac for local PHP Development

As a developer I spend countless hours on the computer. Over time I accumulate a ton of cruft.

May 29, 2015

Laravel and Stripe

Over the past few years, I’ve implemented Laravel and Stripe on multiple occasions. Everything from subscriptions to one-off purchases.

May 14, 2015

Slack vs Hipchat - It's not the design

I came across two posts discussing the design aspect of Slack and it’s $2.8 Billion Dollar Secret Sauce with a follow up from a designer working on HipChat...

May 13, 2015

Laravel Query Debugging

I wrote a tutorial over on Scotch.io on debugging queries in Laravel.

May 12, 2015

Lessons learned from running a weekly newsletter

Yesterday marks the one-year anniversary of my weekly Laravel News newsletter.

May 11, 2015

Questions to ask an employer during an interview

When interviewing for a new job it’s easy to fall in a trap of missing some very important questions about the company.

May 9, 2015

Gamification of Todos

Ever since a man came down the mountain carrying the first todo list, we have been in search of finding the perfect system for keeping up with our todos.

May 9, 2015

Slow Motion Golf Swing

I haven’t played golf in year but had the luxury of playing with some friends on Monday. One of the guys took a slo-mo video of my swing and sent it to me.