Wow! Enter Google Fusion Tables - an easy way to show, manipulate, sort and display data. (more…)
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Vagrant / Ansible config: change to /vagrant on login
While those familiar with the specifics of linux and bash are probably very familiar with the various login sequence files, this might help someone! (more…)
3 Steps to Getting Great Volunteers
If you run a volunteer organization, you might be turning away valuable volunteers! Let me give you 3 useful ways to lock in these volunteers - now! (more…)
CSS3 Only Read More Link
Want a CSS3 ONLY read more link? I think I’ve created one that should do the trick. (more…)
OS X Yosemite Android Studio Android SDK location
No long rambling here. Just can’t believe it took me this long to find this. Seriously, all the documentation I found was wrong. (more…)
Should you unit test your dependency container?
I’ve been working with Pimple Dependency Injector lately, and I’ve come up with an interesting question. (more…)
Doctrine Error: Expected Plain Value
I’m so used to PHP’s liberal allowance for single and double quotes, that I forget that other languages and tool-sets don’t play that way. Case in point, my most recent error: [Syntax Error] Expected PlainValue, got ''' at position 378 in class My\Bundle\App\Entity\ItemDefinition. (more…)
Ansible Installation of Postfix with No Prompts
Using an Ansible configuration, I wanted to use postfix on ubuntu to send out mail. However, I couldn’t seem to figure out exactly how to get it to stop asking for input during the apt-get install postfix process. Turns out, you can use debconf to set the values that are necessary for the install. (more…)
Getting variable values from nested twig / symfony custom template
Today, I was working with a custom form themed symfony / twig project. The previous developer had developed a bootstrap based theme (yes, this is an older Symfony project at this moment - I think this is a bundled theme now). I was struggling with the block field_row item. Inside of this, there was a call to form_label passing in just the form view again. I was setting a custom label on the form_row() call... (more…)
Started my own company
So, I’m working for myself now. Check it out: 201 Creative. Would love to work with you! :) (more…)