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The Times They Are A-Changin’
Big changes on the horizon. September will mark the end of 4+ years at my job in Rochester, NY and the beginning of a new job in our nations capitol Washington, DC. Yep, I’m taking this show on the road and will be moving the middle of September. New place, new people, new job… it’s [...]
Speedy Subscriptions Using Spreedly (Part 4) – Checking for Updates
OK let’s recap. So far in this guide I’ve covered: creating your Spreedly account, setting up your subscription plans and (most recently) linking your applications sign-up process to your Spreedly account. The elephant in the room at this point is managing updates and allowing Spreedly to notify our application when users make modifications to their [...]
Review: CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development
Along with being a Zend Certified PHP5 engineer I’m also a strong advocate for application frameworks (CodeIgniter specifically). That’s why I was pleased when Pact approached me about a month ago to write a review of their new book about CodeIgniter (CI): CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development. Aimed at experienced PHP developers with a solid footing [...]
CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development
For you CodeIgniter fans out there, Packt released a new book last month called CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development. I got word this morning that my review copy is in the mail so keep your eyes out for my thoughts on this book in the coming weeks. From the summary it looks like it covers a [...]
Sign-Up-Sheet.com Relaunched
I’m proud to announce the relaunch of Sign-Up-Sheet.com this morning. It’s been a long 4 months, but I’m very excited that things are up and running after suffering some initial setbacks. Check it out and let me know what you think. http://sign-up-sheet.com
Speedy Subscriptions Using Spreedly (Part 3) – The Sign-up Process
Picking up right where I left off, in this post I will review integrating Spreedly with your programs sign-up process. As is the case with most services like this, including PayPal, the quickest way to incorporate Spreedly involves redirecting the user to their website and allowing the financial transaction to take place on their servers. [...]
EE 2.0 Module: Oneliners
As you may know, I’m in the process of re-developing Sign-Up-Sheet.com. When it came time to start building the new website I decided to use ExpressionEngine 2.0. I have been a long time fan of EE and now that it’s running on CodeIgniter I just had to use it for this project. Content management systems [...]
Is it 2010 already?
Is this really my first post in 2010?? Wow, that’s a bummer… so much for that new years resolution to pay more attention to the blog. Lot’s of things have been happening: sold BadgeTracker to a great bunch of folks back in January kicked off re-development of Sign-Up-Sheet.com in January… relaunching next month (hopefully) been [...]
Entrepreneur Heal Thyself
As a freelancer or sole proprietor, how do you decide when to start a new project? I’m not talking about taking on client projects… I’m referring to ventures, product or application ideas that you have and think would make a good business. Are you the kind of person who gets an idea in their head [...]
Update
It’s been about a month since I posted anything worth while and I wanted to write a quick update to let everyone know I’m still here. Things are pretty hectic right now because I’m trying to get BadgeTracker ready for it’s next major release next month. That’s monopolizing most of my time at the moment [...]
