All entries of my technical and business blog

My MadMimi API PHP Library

Jan 29, 2016 php

At Small Shops United, we use MadMimi for our email list software. I took a look at the PHP libraries that were available and found them extremely out of date, lacking, and just plain not working in certain areas.

New Blog

Jan 24, 2016 news

So I’ve decided to move my website off of wordpress and on to jekyll - so you might notice it is a bit faster ;)

One-time Scrolling Banner with jQuery

Jun 29, 2015 jquery

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.

Documentation Tools for PHPStorm

May 19, 2015 phpstorm

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.