I recently wrote a post on Medium about why people should go to college for tech-related majors. After a few revisions, it actually go moved to the Editor’s Picks page!! That meant for a little bit, it was at the top of the home page! I’ve never had this happen before, so I just had to share. Screenshot below; and no I didn’t Photoshop it. Update: I cannot believe how this article took off. Thanks for everyone that read!!
Yesterday I was trying to do some work on the server I host my projects on. After it being super sluggish, to say the least, I started to investigate why. NOTE: I am not a SysAdmin and do not have a lot of details on the inner workings of everything in this post. These are just genearl things that worked for me and my set up. I use a Linux box, PHP, Apache, and MySQL in most of my set up. So I insist that you do… [more]
I recently had to implement browser detection into one of the web apps I work on at my real job, you know the one that I get paid to do. For those of you who’ve done this before, you know how big of a hassle it is (even worse when you have to support IE7 or lower). There are two general ways to do this, server-side or client-side. In general, since people can spoof user-agent strings, it really doesn’t matter where you put the detection… [more]
Over the past couple months I have been working on finishing a new release of my blog’s design. I started doing the normal way I would. Design in browser, including anything I needed in the footer, and then putting it on top of WordPress without using any of its built-in features. But then I figured it would be a good learning experience to make a WordPress Theme. I have not put this on their site, and will not until it’s completely done (soft launch today)…. [more]
Software Engineer @ExactTarget. I'm passionate about all things web + technology related. ΛXA & Purdue Alumni and adventurer. Sitting still doesn't suit me
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