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Upgrade from PHP 5.3 to PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Last week I posted a call to action to help sway Ondřej Surý into continuing to support Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with his amazing PPA for the latest and greatest PHP versions. Ondřej was kind enough to take the time to [...]

My top 10 tips for new bloggers

I've been blogging every single week for over a year and a half and have been constantly egging my peers into jumping on the wagon. Within the last month both my friend Justin Davis and Francis Suarez started up blogs [...]

Call to Action: PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

I'm going to take a break from posting code snippets and how-tos to draw attention to the fact that PHP 5.6 may not be coming to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS by way of Ondřej Surý's amazing PPA. Yes, you can still [...]

Upgrade to PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

PHP 5.6 is finally here and if you're on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS you're stuck with an older version of PHP. If you want to take advantage of the new awesomeness, you can do so very easily thanks to a PPA [...]

jQuery plugin to calculate read time

I love hosting my blog on GitHub by way of Jekyll but the Liquid templating system is far from a robust scripting language in my opinion. With the rise of Medium, I've been seeing the read time on more and [...]

Fizz Buzz in PHP

Fizz buzz is a fairly common screening question to help sniff out non-programmers during the interview process. The task is to print out numbers 1 through 100 but for multiples of 3 print out "Fizz" instead of the number and [...]

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 [...]