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These last few weeks I’ve been dealing with larger and larger sets of data that I would need to download to my PC to work on. When working with multiple copies of data that are 10-20 GBs each, it started to fill up my two HDDs very quickly. I decided I need to go buy …

I think on Fridays my blog posts will be a little fun. Besides, we could all enjoy a little amusement, right? To kick it off, a great little video about the thing that makes the world go around: The Internet! Happy Weekend!

Here is an article that showed up on my RSS feed: Why Developers Get Fired. While I never have been fired from a job, I have been put in a situtaion where I needed to prove my worth to the company. The advice this article gives is pretty good, and in my opinion are the …

What!? What is this that I speak of? My very favorite feature of the iPhone has actually hindered it?! How can this be? Its really straight forward actually. Before my iPhone, when I checked my email I was at a computer and typically would respond to emails immediately. Now, however, I read most of my …

I read an interesting article on teaching your clients about web design. It brings up some great points on helping your client understanding their role in their website’s development. While its not in inclusive list, it brings up some good points. I’ll share a few quotes: This is not a criticism of clients, however. There …

The other day someone was looking for help with sending emails in PHP. I’ll be honest, the methodology for sending mail in PHP is haphazard to say the least. At least with the built in functionality. The documentation is lacking and there are a lot of undocumented pitfalls. This is where SwiftMailer comes in. SwiftMailer …

I was trying to think of something with PHP I could blog about that would be short and sweet. Then I thought of something that a good friend of my taught me: nerfing objects. The Problem Many times while working with PHP and bigger frameworks, you’ll have classes that extend classes that extand classes. We …

So I’ve already had a few mess ups with the scheduling of posts in WordPress, where I on accidentally schedule it for an odd time, or publish it immediately. So I’m trying to find a plugin to help me keep track of scheduled posts. I’ve found a plugin for my dashboard, so it shows what …

Tonight Joanna and I realized we had forgotten to take some chicken out to thaw from our freezer. So we decided to pick up some food from our favorite burger & yummy food place in South Ogden: Grideli’s. I highly recommend it to anyone looking grab something tasty to eat. During lunch, it is the …

I will be speaking this year at the Utah Open Source Conference this year. My presentation is “Real Life Scaling: A Tale of Two Websites.” Here is the abstract: Scaling is a real issue for many websites. However, many developers try to implement solutions used by the giants of the internet: Google, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, …