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Couchcast

My friend Nick and a couple of his friends set up a new podcast called Couchcast. From their About page: “Couch-Cast” offers a unique look into the minds of studio executives, Academy-Award winning actors, and the minds behind some of Hollywood’s biggest successes and failures. Or, at least it would, if we could get any of those people on the…

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My Online Development Resources

Recently, I made it practice to keep my most important web development resources in my bookmarks bar in Google Chrome (which is awesome, because I also use Bookmark Sync). These aren’t my development tools of course (Coda on Mac, Notepad++ and Filezilla on PC, Photoshop on both), these are online resources I use on a regular basis. Click on to…

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My Favorite Posts from 2009

Here’s a new Favorites of category I’m starting for the new decade. These are my favorite posts from 2009: January 20: Inauguration Day Thoughts February 9: Learning a New Skill March 31: The Basics of Twitter April 10: What I Learned in College August 9: College Advice for my Brother August 21: What Developers can Learn from Home Improvement September…

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Directory Handler at Theme Forest

I’m happy to announce my first Theme Forest component, Directory Handler. it’s a simple set of 2 classes that handle (in several ways) listing the contents of a directory. The main class, DirectoryHandler, includes several functions that: Get and/or print the entire contents of a directory Normalize the name of a file or directory (replace special characters with spaces) Return…

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A List Apart Web Design Survey

Last week, popular web development website A List Apart (ALA) released the results of it’s 2007 Web Design Survey. I’ve spent the last few days reading over the 82 page document and found a good amount of the results interesting. Over 80% of the respondents were White Males 48% came from the USA When asked if they were excited by…

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Colorado School bans…

Tag Yeah. The game tag. Because kids were getting hurt and being ‘forced to play against their will.’ Here is an idea- Don’t run if you don’t want to play. I don’t know about you, but I think kids are supposed to get hurt. It’s in the job description for being a kid. If schools keep doing this and coddling…

Facebook Etiquette

Wired’s Article on Facebook Etiquette. With a new academic year starting (for some of us as soon as tomorrow), Wired has released some simple rules to follow while facebooking. Facebook is one of my favorite websites because of it’s great functionality and expandability, but one should follow a few rules while using it. Here are a couple of my favorites:…

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Death by Veganism

Death By Veganism A New York Times article by Nina Planck on the dangers of giving your baby/infant a vegan diet. I don’t usually post links in the fashion (or any fashion really) here, but this is a topic that has on multiple occasions sparked serious discussion on this blog. I felt it was good enough to post this. Nina,…