Blog

June 4, 2012

Summer Hours

In all my work history I have always had a 5 day work week. Either Monday through Friday in the IT field or Tuesday through Saturday in retail.

June 1, 2012

Cheating Or Good Design?

A comment on Reddit (by raygundan) points out an interesting technique Apple uses on their iOS platform:

March 25, 2012

Laravel Blade

Blade is the simple template/theme system built into Laravel and up until this point it has been very basic.

February 25, 2012

Laravel Bundle Assets

The past few weeks I have been building a few Laravel bundles and one of the features of bundles is the ability to have assets that are moved to your publi...

February 11, 2012

Laravel Log Viewer

A simple Laravel bundle to display your log files via the browser.

January 7, 2012

CodeIgniter Output Caching

This week I had the privilege of doing load testing on an aws setup.

January 1, 2012

New Year, New Job, New Framework

I am happy to announce that starting January 9th I will be working full time for Userscape.

December 28, 2011

My Top Mac Apps of 2011

I always like reading lists of apps that developers use on a daily basis and I love finding ones that I have never heard of or never gave a chance.

November 21, 2011

CodeIgniter Slug Library

I am happy to announce a simple CodeIgniter library to help you generate slugs for your urls.

November 9, 2011

CodeIgniter Optimizations

I am currently building a pretty large CMS system on top of CodeIgniter and I wanted to share some of the best performance optimizations I have found.

November 3, 2011

Nginx PHP Gotchas

Here are some changes I needed to make to my Nginx conf that didn’t seem obvious to me and will hopefully be of help to others:

November 1, 2011

CodeIgniter Nginx Virtual Host

Currently I am in the process of switching a server from Apache to Nginx and here is a quick tip for those using CodeIgniter or who want to host a bunch of...

October 11, 2011

CodeIgniter Minify

The goal of this project is to provide a simple way to minify and combine js and css files inside a CodeIgniter application.

June 8, 2011

Pear, & phpUnit with Mamp Pro

Now updated for MAMP 2.0.1

March 17, 2011

CodeIgniter CSRF Protection With Ajax

A common issue I have seen lately is people using the new CSRF protection inside CodeIgniter 2.0.