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How I schedule my time
Being my own boss has some definitely advantages, like being able to take a beach day on a whim or go to watch one of my daughter's dance classes. The unfortunate side of that is that you still have to [...]
Advice on Freelancing
A friend of mine recently asked me for some advice in regard to a freelancing project he was in the quoting phase of. I figured, what a great topic for a blog post! Keep in mind though, I haven't freelanced [...]
Don't be surprised by success
A trio of guys recently started to get into a space that I already have sites in. Their browser extension is called Babblr and it falls into the same realm as TumbleChat which is my chat site that uses Tumblr [...]
Linode NextGen vs. DigitalOcean
A lot has happened since February when I originally blogged about Linode and DigitalOcean. First and foremost, Linode has finished rolling out their "NextGen" platform in all of it's glory. Linode also experienced a break in to their manager that [...]
Quitting Caffeine
Caffeine, the performance enhancing drug of choice of programmers, gamers and just about everyone else in America and abroad. I used to worship the molecule just like the next coder, and why not? Code longer, focus better and hell, it's [...]
How I use Redis
If you know me you know that I'm a huge proponent of Redis. I started using it in mid-2011 as the storage engine for a chat system I was building for SceneKids. Over the last year and a half or [...]
PHP: Built for the web
If you know me, you know I'm a pretty devout PHP coder when it comes to my own adventures in web development. I've been using it since version 3 (started with it in Y2K) and in using it that long [...]
Blocking Proxy Sites with JavaScript
Social websites don't always attract the most desireable patrons and often times those users opt to hide their identity (as well as blocking banner ads) behind a proxy server. There are quite a few free web-based proxies out there (generally [...]
Going Vanilla with MySQL
Over the last few years I've gotten down and dirty with MySQL's config file, my.cnf. I read and re-read the MySQL documentation as well as any blog posts I could find on the subject. I was able to keep my [...]
The Accidental MVP
Over the last 10 years I've been a single digit employee at two startups in the Tampa area and both companies had completely different approaches to product development. At The Online Outpost we build an inventory management and listing platform [...]