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Safari bug when signing up for Twitter

Wasn't entirely sure what I was going to blog about today when a stroke of inspiration occurred after the wife was strugglging to create a new Twitter account for an upcoming adventure. I tried it from her computer and everything [...]

The power of a morning routine

After some recent research I realized that people I consider successful are generally quite scheduled. Not necessarily through their entire day, but at the very least they have a morning routine that occupies the first 90 minutes of their day [...]

Basic page routing in PHP

Last week we talked about setting up a local development server with PHP's built-in web server and I mentioned that we'd delve into page routing. Routing refers to taking the URI that a person was requested, let's say /about and [...]

Using PHP's built-in web server

I recently updated [HolidayAPI][holidayapi] to no longer use my PHP framework because I wanted the system to be easier for new developers to get up and running. Instead of including configuration files for Apache or nginx, I decided that I [...]

My standing desk made me lazy

You may remember my previous post about my switching to a standing desk. I absolutely loved it. I felt inspired with the new perspective and genuinely felt better. It took a few weeks to get used to the new setup [...]

Wonder what's next?

I have been running this blog since 2013 as a way to improve my PHP as well as my writing. It has been a labor of love and I made it my goal to post at least once a week [...]

Outline numbering for an object tree

Last week I had talked about a layout dilemma that my buddy Justin was having. This reminded me of an issue that programming challenge he hit me with a few months prior. The challenge was to take an object tree [...]

Layout with fixed header and independently scrolling columns

Update April 4th, 2019 Seems at some point between May of 2015 and now, the code in this post went terribly stale. It wasn't working in either Firefox or Chrome and I've since updated the code with a working example [...]

Working with Dynamic variable names a/k/a Variable variables in PHP

Variable variables are one of my favorite things about PHP. PHP allows you to use a variable to reference another variable. This comes in exceptionally handy when you need to create variable names dynamically: $variable = 'This is my variable' [...]

Open Challenge: Learn Lisp with Me

Starting on May 1st, 2015, I am setting out to learn Lisp because I feel like I'm missing out by not knowing it. I see it come up pretty regularly, it's stood the test of time and there are a [...]