More writing
Everytime year or so I come up with a tired epiphany that I need to write more. The fact is I suck at writing, but it brings me joy. Despite my affection for trying to get my thoughts out into …
Protecting hardwood floor from my evil office chair
Up until last week I have spent the entire new century struggling to protect our floors from my office chair. The bane of my existence is the stupid plastic mat that always ends up curling slightly at the edges. Just …
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Angular JS – Combining two http requests into one promise
As developers we often find ourselves doing things we shouldn’t be doing, and putting best practices aside for the sake of a “solution.” In my case I found myself needing data that was not in our API end point, because …
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Mt. St. Helens Trip
After months of rain the skies parted and we decided to take an impromptu trip up to Mt. St. Helens so the kids could see it for for the first time in person. Got to take a little hike from …
Cross Country – Mount Rushmore
On day three of our amazing trip cross country we started the day off in beautiful Rapid City, South Dakota. The monument didn’t allow dogs and we had two crazy dogs in tow. My son, Atharv and I made a …
PHP remove all occurrences of string except last with preg_replace
While trying to manipulate a string in PHP, I ran into a road block trying to remove all instances of “.” and replace with a comma with the exception of the last instance of the period.
MailCatcher Suddenly Not Working In Vagrant
Mailcatcher fails enough for me to be a pain, but not frequently enough to remember what the fix is. It is enough to bring the development process to a screeching halt until I google the correct search string to bring …
Developing, Design, and Content vs. Product
When ever given the choice to work on design or content, any designer chooses design. However front end design requires content to be able to get a true feel for what you are designing for. My conundrum is often that …
VDay 2013
Rudy the mini aussie at the Valentine's day photo shoot 2013.
Valentine’s Day 2013 we did a photo shoot to benefit the Lincoln County Animal Shelter at The Animal House in Damariscotta, Maine. A very large turnout to get photos of their pets and kids… Here is a sample of some …