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Thoughts on building email templates 12 Jul 2013 | 06:39 pm
I've been making email templates in one way or another for about three years now. At Acton Institute, we send out a lot of mailings to engage and inform followeres of our nonprofit. In fact, sending...
jQuery's $.ajax and Cordova don't play well anymore 30 Apr 2013 | 08:03 pm
In updating my PhoneGap/Cordova app to the latest version, I came across the unpleasant surprise that the jQuery $.ajax function is no longer working. I've made sure to whitelist domains properly and...
Format Wordpress posts from the last week with better excerpts 3 Apr 2013 | 08:48 pm
At work we send a weekly newsletter that has a summary of our blog posts from the last week. As our blog has grown, this task has started to take a lot more time to manually format each post title an...
Making Wordpress and Drupal configuration files easier for development and production environments 22 Feb 2013 | 09:36 pm
At last year's Drupalcon in Denver there was an excellent session called Delivering Drupal. It had to do with the oftentimes painful process of deploying a website to web servers. read more
Keeping healthy as a gamer, computer programmer, or someone with a desk job 21 Jan 2013 | 07:53 pm
To begin, I would describe myself as all three of the things in the title of this post. In the past I’ve struggled with weight and food cravings. The main problem isn’t usually overeating if you hav...
VirtualBox and creating virtual servers for web development 15 Oct 2012 | 07:45 pm
If you've heard of VMWare and virtualization, you might be confused when you visit VMWare and see 100 different products offered. I know I am. If you're a web developer and want to easily cut throug...
New TF2 Map: Canalzone2 11 Aug 2012 | 08:04 pm
Dom_canalzone is one of the most unique TF2 maps out there. With 8 points and lots of fast-paced action, there are a huge number of strategies that can be used on the map. Some are effective, some a...
What bread can you eat on a low carb diet? 1 Aug 2012 | 09:54 pm
Good question. Traditional bread can be around 15g of carbs or more per slice. There are lots of alternatives to bread such as Flatout Light wraps that only have 6g of net carbs. However, if you wan...
Hacking primal: How to not feel tired while reducing carbs 19 Jul 2012 | 10:29 pm
While I tend to focus on technology on this blog, I like to branch out a bit and give tips on improving health. Computer geeks everywhere could most definitely use some healthy advice! I've posted a ...
Diablo 3 ideas: Improving the auction house 20 Jun 2012 | 11:41 pm
This is my first official post expressing my displeasure with an aspect of Diablo 3, though I have many gripes (especially as of 1.0.3 yesterday, which severely nerfed Demon Hunters and anyone using a...
