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Are GAWMiners Hashlets worth it?
I've only been the owner of a Hashlet from GAWMiners / ZenCloud for less than a week and I'm liking what I'm seeing thus far. My initial investment was a mere 15.99 USD for a 1MH/s Hashlet and honestly, the [...]
How to execute an HTTP POST using PHP cURL
I've been doing a lot of API integration recently and cURL ends up being exceptionally handy when you are POSTing to an endpoint. Fortunately using cURL in PHP is really easy: // Sets our destination URL $endpoint_url = 'https://somesite.com/path/to/endpoint'; // [...]
10 office pranks you should try at your own office
Before I start talking about office pranks, I want to give a shout-out to Noah Kagan for his post We Analyzed Nearly 1 Million Headlines. Here's What We Learned post. The truth is, this post is just a list of [...]
Why work so hard to stay at the bottom?
Not a day goes by that I see a headline about the need for a minimum wage increase. I read about staged sit-ins, protests and boycotts. I see people investing a ton of time and energy to remain the lowest [...]
Looping through a date range with PHP
Looping through a date range isn't as simple as looping through an array with foreach but it doesn't take much additional code to get the job done. To loop through a date range you will need to use a loop [...]
Tabs vs. Spaces: I'm switching sides
It's not very often that I make a drastic change to my coding style but after using tabs for my entire life, I am making the switch to spaces. My go to defense for using tabs was that they are [...]
Difference between break; and continue; in PHP
The topic of break and continue came up the other day and I thought it would make for a good blog post. You're probably familiar with break moreso than continue because it is part of a switch statement's syntax. Both [...]
Review: Sprint WeGo
A few months back when I picked up a Nexus 5 for myself, I decided to go ahead and get our 7-year-old daughter the Sprint WeGo phone. For those that are not familiar with the device, it's a very basic [...]
PHP without fancy braces
PHP is a C-style language and thus uses fancy braces to wrap or hug control structures. PHP is also a language that is extremely flexible so you can also get by without using fancy braces. You will never get away [...]
Tools of the Trade - 2014
It was February 18th, 2011, a week before my 30th birthday that my answers to AppSumo's Tools of the Trade questionnaire were posted. A metric shit ton has changed since then - new jobs, new hardware, new software. At the [...]