Do it. Catch your breath. Sit in one spot. Don’t reach for your phone. Look at the sky. Clear your mind. (more…)
All entries of my technical and business blog.
Follow Through if You're Trying to Seduce a Developer
I remember a scene from A night at the roxbury where the less-than-slick brothers take some girls back to their room and have a problem closing the deal. One of them keeps saying pickup lines while he has the girl sitting on his bed. She basically says OK - we’re past this. He just can’t seem to close the deal - no matter how much she wants him to. (more…)
TrackThings.com
Idea: TrackThings.com. This website is made to track sales people and distribution of promotional materials. It was initially thought of as a way to track on-the-ground sales distribution. For example, if you had someone go to three businesses on one street, they could easily track where they went, and mark the interest for followup. (more…)
Ideas Online
This idea is to create an idea repository. I started out wanting to make this website - and instead just decided to list my ideas on this blog. But, here goes. (more…)
Zend Framework: Add HTML to form element label
By default, the labels of form elements in Zend Form are escaped. Sometimes, like in check mark boxes for Terms of Use, it makes sense to add some HTML to this. You can turn off escaping - but just be careful! (more…)
ThatConference Slides
I’m currently at ThatConference here at the Kalahari Resort, in Wisconsin Dells. (more…)
jQuery Validator: Twitter username validator
If you use the jQuery Validation plugin, and of course, you follow an amazing PHP Programmer and now have twitter boxes on all your forms, you might need to validate it some day. I wrote this method for it. (more…)
Web Developers: Invest the time to create your page!
I’ve heard the argument so many times: “I’m just too busy to do my own website” This usually is followed by pleading statements leading to the fact that no one is paying them to do their own website - like their current workload is paying them. (more…)
Book Review: PHP Frameworks and Applications
I just finished glancing over Real-World Solutions for Developing High-Quality PHP Frameworks and Applications. I gotta say it… (more…)
DateTime: My new best friend
I have a new love affair… PHP’s DateTime object. I’m not sure when it started, but it’s going on strong now. If you haven’t taken a look at it, I invite you to run over there now and just look at the methods. If that isn’t enough, let me give you a bit of example code… see if this makes you really want to do it: (more…)