Dev

Example of how I learn using ChatGPT using an idea from Caleb Porzio, the creator of Livewire and Alpine.js

Published on: April 10, 2023

Caleb post a cool idea about date filters in Laravel. I wasn’t sure the best way to do that with the frame work. I’ve used the framework quite a bit but I’m still learning the nuances of how to extend it and make it even more useful for my projects. I’m excited for the upcoming ... [Read More]

Building My First App

Published on: March 31, 2022

I’ve been toying with the idea of building an app for quite a while. I’ve dabbled in various parts of it for projects over the years and I generally know how it all fits together. But I’m not a front end engineer by any stretch so this will be a bit of a learning curve. ... [Read More]

New Year – New Job!

Published on: January 14, 2022

It seems like I only blog when I have big changes. I really need to work on that. But today I’m writing here again because I have a big change. Today is my last day at my current job working on Blue Summit Supplies while working at Franklin Creative Solutions. BSS, as we call it ... [Read More]

The Next Chapter

Published on: October 31, 2020

Last week was my last week at WebDevStudios. I was working on the support side of the house in the Maintainn sub division of the company. The role was considered a support engineer role but most of the time it was new development for smaller to medium sized clients. When I originally applied it was ... [Read More]

New Links Section + Tutorial

Published on: July 4, 2020

I’ve always liked sharing links of interest but I’m taking that content and putting it on my own site instead of puffing up social media. I’ll still share stuff there too from time to time but this will be the main place I share links from now on. They are mostly for me to find ... [Read More]

Draft Post Disclaimer Plugin

Published on: May 29, 2020

My co-worker and friend Sal Ferrarello was telling us in one of our weekly scrums that he uses a draft category to post stuff that might not be quite ready for prime time. This gets the content out faster and its searchable but he added some code to display a disclaimer on those posts to ... [Read More]

Dusting off the ole blog

Published on: August 2, 2019

I’m in the process of dusting off the ole blog here so excuse the mess if you find anything wonky – it’s a work in progress. A couple months ago I started working at Maintainn, a division of WebDevStudios and while there are certainly challenges it’s been a ton of fun. I was pretty burned ... [Read More]

Managing Online Forums

Published on: September 1, 2012

My friend Patrick, whom you probably know from phpBBHacks.com, just announced the launch of his latest project, ManagingCommunities.com. The site targets anyone who runs an online community, though I think anyone who has to manage users would benefit from subscribing. But perhaps the most important part of Patrick’s announcement is the release of his book, ... [Read More]

Quick vi tip: Show Hidden Characters

Published on: July 2, 2020

I do a lot of development in linux/unix. In fact, that’s where all my development is, but I spend a fair amount of time in the “CLI” or command line interface. I use putty and ssh in to edit files and look at logs and just generally do what I do. Today I ran into ... [Read More]

MySQL Disaster Recovery

Published on: September 1, 2012

Today I was doing some database work for a client and I had to delete some recent entries from a database. Like a moron, I forgot to add a “where” close and emptied the entire thing! No big deal, I’m the one who wrote the backup script so I went to grab the backup for ... [Read More]