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Dec, 2011

Holy Crap!

So I took a look at my blog this morning and realized that I haven’t written a single post since December 2010… Thats a whole year! What a waste for such a perfectly awesome blog! So much has been happening in my life that I just haven’t had time, but I promise now to be more on top of it.

So whats been happening? Well the most important change is that I have made a career transition to work for AOL in NY. I’ve taken a step back from leadership to start working on ground breaking social implementations at the Huffington Post (a now AOL company). Im currently leading social development and have launched some really cool things like the Huffington Post Facebook App.

I continue to work closely with the Facebook and Twitter engineers on some really cool and exciting stuff. I am extremely happy and proud to be employed by AOL. They are the single best company I have ever worked for and I look forward to being there for a long time.

I also recently released a new wordpress plugin on CodeCanyon.net. WPToWord is a content export tool that takes your posts or pages and exports them to a downloadable word document. A lot of writers have found it really useful and I continue to develop on it.

In October I spoke at WordCamp Boston about user management, and in November I spoke at WordCamp Philly about HTML5. Its been a really great experience speaking at these conference and I really look forward to doing more of them. WordPress 3.3 (Sonny) was release this month, I was also named in the credits having done some bug fixes for some multisite functions.

I moved and sadly I no longer have my recording studio :( but I am trying to fill the void with really awesome development work. Look forward to some really cool stuff coming this year.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

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Dec, 2010

Top 10 Web Development Faux Pas

We have all been there… just starting out and don’t know any better or trying to get a quick hack in to fix a site that just went live…. these are situations that many of us have faced and done the unthinkable, we commit a web development faux pa. It’s scarily more common than not so hopefully this article will help bring salvation to all those web sinners out there. Without further ado I present the Top 10 Web Development Faux Pas to avoid while building or maintaining websites.

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Sep, 2010

My First Approved Script on CodeCanyon.net

So a few months ago, the Envato network put out a call to all HTML5 developers to help them fill out their new HTML5 category on CodeCanyon.net. I decided to convert one of my existing drop down menu scripts to an HTML5 powerhouse that used some new entities and CSS3 properties.

After one simple revision my HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript drop menu system was approved for sale. Check it out here!

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Jul, 2010

Why Validation Is Important,… After All

HTML and CSS Validation has been the center of an intense debate for years; some web developers believe that validation is pointless since many of the specs change on various DOCTYPE’s and DTD’s, while others believe that your website is not truly valid and accessible unless you are in 100% compliance with whatever DOCTYPE you use. I will not begin to pretend that I can fairly and accurately mitigate both sides of this argument, what I want to do is take a look at it from a different perspective.

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May, 2010

Setting an ‘Active’ Class for Dynamic Navigations in WordPress

I recently got a project that required a really dynamic navigation. The client wanted the ability to add and remove pages at will with no interaction from a developer. This is generally a pretty simple request, but the client has a very specific set of style guidelines. Here is a php function that I wrote to do the job.

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Apr, 2010

Self Clearing Input Fields With Javascript and Prototype

I wrote this little script to just create some self clearing input fields. Its pretty simple but it does the job.

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Apr, 2010

Last Tweet – A PHP Twitter Class

Sometimes doing something simple should be just that, simple. Thanks to Twitters excellent restful API, I am easily able to grab my last tweet plus some bonus data about my account and display it on my website. So Here it is, simple and clean.

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Mar, 2010

LSCOLORS in OSX Snow Leopard, For Dummies

So after cruising the web for a few hours trying to find ‘dummy’ style documentation on changing colors in terminal using .bashrc, I finally stumbled across a site that got me half way there. After playing around a bit I found a few little tricks and things that no one really likes to share. So here it is.

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Feb, 2010

Unboxing the Apple Magic Mouse

So a few days ago my mighty mouse decided to crap out. I did my best to take it apart and clean it, but we all know that once you take apart a ‘glued together’ piece of electronics things are rarely ever the same again. So, seeing as I needed a new mouse and had an extra $70 burning a hole in my pocket, I decided to dive in and get myself a new Magic Mouse.

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Feb, 2010

Retubing the Marshall Part – 2

The quest for my perfect guitar tone continues…

After a few weeks of playing with the settings, re-biasing, and changing out tubes I finally decided that I just didn’t like the power tubes, and that they were likely the source of my problems with tone. So I called up my friends at thetubestore.com and had them ship me a set of EL34B’s.

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