Blog
Thoughts on development, tools, and the web.
August 22, 2014
Using WordPress to Create a Newsletter
On my Laravel News site I send out a weekly digest newsletter and I decided very early that I didn’t want some automated system of just grabbing all this w...
August 22, 2014
Building a jQuery Plugin with Gulp
With the current design of this site I wanted to have images in the content that stretch out beyond the container.
August 20, 2014
The Sketchnote Workbook
As a developer I am constantly taking notes while reading, planning features, and attending conferences.
July 2, 2014
Bootstrapped - Episode 43
The latest Bootstrapped.fm podcast had myself and the rest of the UserScape developers on as guests.
June 7, 2014
Dear Morning
I glance out my window, scared to open my blinds.
May 31, 2014
Losing Weight and Feeling Great
The other night my wife and I were watching a photo slideshow and a picture of me on the beach from 2011 popped up.
April 15, 2014
Open Source Marketing Tips
It’s 1 am, I’m unable to sleep and have all these crazy ideas running through my head. As I start to doze, I have a spark of genius.
April 6, 2014
Single Page Laravel Application
Michael Calkins asked me on Twitter the following question:
January 12, 2014
Working Remote With Kids
Ian just made a post sharing 9 tips for working remote with kids.
January 9, 2014
Switching to PhpStorm
A few months back I retired Sublime Text from my day to day coding and have since switched to using PhpStorm as my go to editor.
November 21, 2013
Write A Love Letter
The holidays are approaching fast and what better gift to give than a “love letter” to your loved ones.
June 15, 2013
Announcing Wardrobe
This site has always been my own little personal playground. I am constantly changing the design, the platform, and just experimenting.
February 25, 2013
Care and Feeding of a Robot
January 9, 2013
Presentation Design for Developers
I am excited that I will get to speak at the first ever Laravel conference next month.
January 4, 2013
My 2012 - A look back
This past year has flown by and it is really hard for me to grasp that it is already 2013.
August 1, 2012
Statamic Email Form Plugin
This is a plugin for Statamic that is designed to allow you to quickly and easily create email forms.
July 9, 2012
Statamic Sitemap
This is just a few simple template files to generate a sitemap of your site for submitting to Google webmaster tools. It follows the sitemap protocol.
June 29, 2012
Statamic
If you have followed this blog over the years you know I am always changing something.
June 27, 2012
CodeIgniter Security Basics
By default CodeIgniter is a very secure framework and it also does a lot behind the scenes to help you out.
June 9, 2012
Atlanta PHP Meetup
I had the pleasure of attending the Atlanta PHP’s meetup on Thursday at StrongBox West where Ben Edmunds gave a talk about the Laravel framework.