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Developer titles are bullshit, Part 1 - The lifecycle of a developer

This is a pretty universal truth, most developer titles are complete and utter nonsense. Shit like “Junior Developer” and “Senior Engineer Level 2”, sounds like we’re playing Dungeons and Dragons. Sad part of this is, most people will say they…

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Ikea Expedit standing desk

I wholeheartedly decided that I would convert my existing Ikea Expedit sitting desk and bookshelf combo to a “hipster developer” standing desk. Part of the decision was because of my buddy Mike. He was telling me about how using a…

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Converting decimal to other number systems with PHP

It felt a bit like cheating to split this post up so I figured I would just cover all of the decimal to... functions in one post. Decimal, also known as base ten, is the numerical base we are most…

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To infinity and beyond! Working with infinity in PHP

We can file this one under the "PHP functions I never knew existed and probably will never use" category. Seems that as of PHP 4.2.0 and beyond there was the inclusion of an is_finite() and an is_infinite() function. The names…

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5 things I learned by unliking all of my Facebook likes

In an effort to limit my digital footprint, one of the things I am doing is not liking every fucking thing on Facebook. In addition to not liking anything moving forward, I also went back and unliked everything that I…

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High Volume Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean

I've done quite a few of these comparison posts and I have always stuck with the inexpensive plans. I figured, what the hell, let's see how Linode and DigitalOcean stack up when running larger, comparably priced plans! The price point…

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Finding the smallest or largest value with PHP

Figured I would keep up the trend of talking about finding the smallest and largest values in arrays by talking about finding the smallest or largest value in a set of values. Incidentally, doing so will utilize the same min()…

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Life without Google

I’ve decided that this year is going to be the year that I try to limit the amount of information I put out onto the Interwebs and hone my social presences and take back my privacy as best as I…

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Find the largest value in an array with PHP

Last week we discussed how to find the smallest value in an array so it seemed fitting to discuss how to find the largest value in an array. As we previously discussed back in the day you would have to…

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How I doubled my investment with GAW Miners Hashlets

I can already hear the sneers of skepticism from my readers as I write this post. I know at least one person will fail to read the entire article and post some shitty comment about how GAW Miners are running…

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