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Nintendo Wii U First Impressions
tl;dr - I like the Wii U but do have some pain points. Also affiliate links, so many affiliate links. I grew up in the 1980s. I got to experience the 8-bit console wars first hand. The Wizard taught me [...]
Holiday API free and ready to fork!
Last week's post on calculating what date Thanksgiving will fall on got me thinking, wouldn't it be cool is there was an API that you can call to return holidays for a specific date, month or even the entire year [...]
What I am thankful for
Surrounded by Facebook statuses about how miserable and broke everyone seems to be and with it being the week of Thanksgiving it felt appropriate to drop a quick list of things I'm thankful for: My wife who has the tolerance [...]
How to calculate Thanksgiving's date with PHP
The topic of this post ended up turning into quite the programming exercise for me. In true PHP fashion, I was able to come up with 3 distinct methods to determine what date Thanksgiving falls on (and have another in [...]
My Experience with Wizpert
For those that aren't familiar, Wizpert is a platform for chatting with people (Skype, Gtalk and their site) that are experts (referred to as "wizperts") of specific topics. Earlier in the year I was sent a beta invite to become [...]
How to convert a negative number to a positive number with PHP
Converting a number from negative to positive is a pretty simple process using the absolute function abs(): $positive = abs(-123); // = 123 $positive = abs(123); // also = 123 Absolute returns a positive integer or float based on what [...]
DirectNIC may have been compromised
Didn't see any news about it this AM but it seems that DirectNIC may have been compromised. My wife just spoke with Bank of America regarding fraudulent activity on her credit card. According to the person she spoke with, DirectNIC [...]
PHP's HereDoc versus NowDoc
We've previously discussed how to assign variables and add in variables and all of that good stuff, but what about if you are dealing with a large block of text? There's many approaches, most that require you to be mindful [...]
Book Review: Remote: Office Not Required
I'm back on a reading kick as of late having knocked out 3 books in the last few weeks (Web Performance Daybook Volume 2 and Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising) including the [...]
One Year Quitaversary!
Last week (October 30th, 2013) marks the one year anniversary of quitting my day job at CrowdSavings and pursuing my own startup dreams / running my own company. At the time I had only 3 social networks up and running [...]