All entries of my technical and business blog

The other day I found myself giving advice and revisions to a fellow PHP programmer about his cover letter for his next job application. That really inspired me to help out and write this entry.

I’m not gonna lie - I was really trying to figure out how to put more keywords onto the home page of my company, 201 Creative, besides just the trademark: “Let’s make software simple.” So, I messed around with making a rotating banner on the home page that alternated through words that described the concept. However, I found it annoying and eventually gave up on the idea. I didn’t want to just delete it, though, because it was really light-weight and did something I didn’t really see anywhere else.

The other day I was faced with an issue that I need to be able to keep the scroll position of a user in a overflow-y scrollable div. Turns out - with a combination of javascript and local storage, this is pretty easy.

I like when projects have documentation, yet I hate writing it. That’s why I rely on phpDocumentor to do most of my documentation for my project. Recently, I’ve also discovered a new tool for documenting my API: ApiDoc. I’ve also been relying heavily on vagrant for my projects.

I’m a huge fan of tools like PHPUnit. Or any other tool that will help my project carry on.

Well - I really couldn’t think of a good title - it’s really not catchy at all.

Turns out, it’s just another issue of RTFM - but maybe this will save you some headache!

Wow! Enter Google Fusion Tables - an easy way to show, manipulate, sort and display data.

If you run a volunteer organization, you might be turning away valuable volunteers! Let me give you 3 useful ways to lock in these volunteers - now!

While those familiar with the specifics of linux and bash are probably very familiar with the various login sequence files, this might help someone!