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  • Always Learning

    I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  • Gravatar Is More Than Just An Avatar

    Personal profile websites are a common sight these days, especially when services like About.me make it so easy for everyone to have one. But did you know Gravatar can do more than just serve your avatar around the websites you frequent? Gravatar provides a personal profile that people can view to learn a little more…

  • Circumstances

    ‎Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

  • Joining Automattic

    I’m very excited to announce that today marks the first day of my employment as a Code Wrangler at Automattic! Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com and other various awesome products. I’ve been using WordPress for some time now and am so grateful to finally be a part of the team. My dream job! I’m…

  • Procrastination

    Procrastination is what happens when you temporarily forget who you are, what you should pay attention to and what your options are for doing something about it. – Merlin Mann

  • The minimalists distraction

    The removal of distraction can very quickly become its own distraction – Merlin Mann

  • Utilize Grep and Vim

    I was working on a client’s huge website for the past couple weeks that required searching many files for instances of a string. My workflow began running grep in the entire directory. The command outputs the path to file and the line number the phrase was found on. I would then open the file in…

  • Postmark API Wrapper for CodeIgniter

    Notice: This project is no longer maintained. I’ve been using Postmark and it’s API for quite a while. If you’re still sending out emails through PHP’s mail() function, you need to check out Postmark! With Postmark you can off-load those transactional emails and not have to worry about it yourself. While there is a Postmark API…

  • Idea Notebook

    Like most developers, I have ideas. Some of those ideas are built, some are still bouncing around in my head and that is a productivity killer for me. Constantly having new ideas and constantly thinking about old ideas is distracting. Not only is it distracting, it makes me feel uninspired. So what did I do?…

  • CodeIgniter Form with Text CAPTCHA

    “A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.” captcha.net The current CAPTCHA system I started using is Text CAPTCHA. The Text CAPTCHA web service generates text-based CAPTCHAs which…