The other day, I was presenting some of my hard work to a group of stakeholders in a meeting at work. I went through the screens, showing all of the fruits of my months of labor. (more…)
All entries of my technical and business blog.
Zend Translate Plurals
I know it should be pretty common sense to RTFM - but sometimes you miss things. (more…)
Idea: Voice Controlled Paginator / RSS Reader
I’ve been thinking about this idea for a while… (more…)
How to discover talent, not just skill
One of the newer programmers on my team asked me the other day why I hired him. I said “I saw you had a natural talent, and have potential.” We both kind of laughed because we knew his skill level at the time was very low. He was not that experienced. But, he had more questions about how I can detect talent and potential versus just someone who has really polished looking code. (more…)
Equal distance menu items
I’ve been having this challenge - I really want to have menu items in the CMS to be equally distributed - but I don’t want them to go over the edge of the page. It’s like, I want them to wrap. I’ve been doing some work with display: table-cell. (more…)
Idea: CMS agnostic cloud storage plugin
So I’ve been looking into cloud storage a bit again - and I decided to do a bit of quick research on the top three CMS in my life: Drupal, Joomla, and Wordpress. I wanted to see if my idea made sense… (more…)
Testing MySQL User Info Passwords
Out of some sheer boredom, I started looking at the top 25 used passwords (from articles here and here). (more…)
Slides from thatConference
My talk at thatConference went great today. You can download them here. (Also, not sure why, but the second slide would just not download the image of my kayak…) (more…)
Idea: CodeReviewWith.Me
I had this idea about doing interactive screen share and code review. I wrote it about it earlier and even asked for feedback. (more…)
How to structure your controller, service and mapper method names
I was talking with one of the junior programmers on my team about naming method names. He was having problems coming up with ones that seemed to make sense to him and to the application. I broke it down how I think about it: (more…)