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CSS ALL THE THINGS!

Just realized that I've been spending quite a bit of time in the trenches with some CSS: My Projects LESS Grid Grid is a mixin for LESS, the CSS pre-processor (http://lesscss.org) for generating custom grid systems. The goal of the [...]

Linode vs. DigitalOcean

I've been seeing a lot of these posts popping up recently and figured I'd weigh in on the matter. Since everyone seems to be including benchmarks of disk I/O and such I'll not only omit those, but I'd like to [...]

My departure from CrowdSavings

Figured my birthday was a good day to talk about this in a public forum. Back in October I resigned my post as CTO at CrowdSavings.com in one of the most outlandish [even for me] exits I've been privy to [...]

Moving from Tumblr to Jekyll (and GitHub!)

As you may remember, I moved my blog (and my wife's blog and every other site blog I have) to Tumblr. At the time, it made perfect sense. Tumblr's platform is quite robust and they have a dedicated staff that [...]

Review: Anatomy Framework

From the developer, Nick Justice: Anatomy is a light-weight and responsive front end framework that invokes rapid development. I don't usually review anything on here, let alone a framework, but it's also not often that I get to use something [...]

Command line website uptime checker using the OS X Notification Center

Honestly, the title of this post covers all the bases of my pre-Turkey consumption proof of concept turned full on project. Just a simple Ruby script that parses a configuration file and checks to see if the site is up [...]

DKIM with multiple domains with Exim4

Maybe my Google-fu was off when I was originally trying to figure this one out, but when searching for setting up DKIM for multiple domains on the same server all I came up with were complex ways to serve up [...]

Everything I learned from my first cruise that my wife didn't tell me even after reading Birnbaum's Guide and talking about the cruise for 6 months beforehand

The Disney Dream's staterooms come equipped with 220v European standard outlets and not the 115v outlets that I know and love (and can actually utilize). Nassau, Bahamas felt like another world. And by another world, I mean a dirty [...]

Apple Fanboy-dom - 3 month recap

Been exclusively using Apple products for my computing needs for 3 months now and figured it was time for a recap to discuss what I've liked and disliked thus far. Likes I'm still loving the ease of use and especially [...]

Go fork yourself you forking fork

So even with the recent ship jumping over to a plethora of Apple products, I still find myself to be an open source supporter, contributor and maybe even a part-time aficionado. But as of late, I gotta say, I'm starting [...]