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Well, I was born on a normal day in July, 1981 and have been creating chaos ever since. Born in North Carolina, but raised in the aftermath of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, I have been messing around with computers nearly my entire life. I wrote my first program in assembly when I was 11. In my early teens I ran a BBS connected to Fidonet and started building a website for my band. In 1999 I was introduced to Linux, and it was love at first compile. I started my career in IT in the early 2000's doing IT for a Car Dealership in Charlotte NC. I wrote my first major web app in Cold Fusion (an ecom app) at that time. In 2006 I left Charlotte and moved down to Columbia where starting working as a developer, freelancer and consultant. Currently I am working as a freelance developer and DevOps consultant!!

....Creating Chaos Since 1981!

  1. Some updates

    \n Just made a few updates. I added some simple jQuey navigation elements to my ruby on rails site as well as some simple session managment to my personal site. As session management is very important to a dynamic site, I’ll more than likely use that as my next tutorial entry. …

  2. a simple task...not so simple solution

    \n Okay, so here is the situation: I promised my brother that I’d email him my current resume a week ago. I currently do not live in a place with interwebs, so I am a slave to internet cafe’s at the moment. So, I continued to forget to send it to him. I’ve been meaning to upload my resume to google docs for some time now, and I decided to see if I could get my resume to my brother using nothing but my iphone. …

  3. Mac IDE For php Development

    \n I’ve been trying out a lot of IDE’s lately. I’ve decided to post a run down of them and blog about my personal preferences. I’ve used the following IDE’s …

  4. A few new Developments

    \n Well, I got a few great things done the past two days. First I managed to get the last of my sites (this one!) switched from Go Daddy to Dreamhost. Go Daddy is a great server and a great hosting company, but they placed far to many flash/cool/bandwidth hogs on there main pages and in the control panel. Doing anything took ten+ minutes. Dreamhost has a much simpler but equally powerfull interface that I like a lot better. …

  5. Dreamweaver CS4 for the Mac a Review

    \n I remember the first time that I ever used Dreamweaver. It was way back in the late 90’s and it was a total waste of my time. I had free solutions that gave me just the same functionality, so why? I used Dreamweaver again when MX came out. I actually made a lot of great little webpages with it, the only problem was the damn extra mark-up that Macromedia insisted on placing everywhere! It was almost easier to hand code than to go back and clean things up. Then, in 2006 I used Dreamweaver from CS2 to make a site for a local Russian language school. Well, I was originally hired to teach them how to do it, but once it proved fruitless, they hired me to do the entire site. I tried to make a great design in Dreamweaver, but later I recreated the site totally outside of Dreamweaver and coded it in php. …

  6. a simple PHP contact form

    \n Let’s take a little break from the MVC concept and look at a simple but effective PHP mailer. Like the PHP framework, I wrote this mailer from scratch just to show how easy it is to code pure PHP applications. …

  7. a simple MVC framework part 2

    \n In this post we will talk about the requirements of having two views of the same data in PHP. First of all, we must do a little bit of modification of our controller …

  8. a simple MVC framework from scratch Part 1

    \n You here a lot about frameworks these days. There is Zend, Cake, Rails. The list goes on. MVC is a big part of this. I’ve decided to write a very simple MVC framework that can be easily understood and implemented on any site with very little intrusion. I’m going to hash it out right here on my blog. Please feel free to give me your feedback. …

  9. MySQL GUI Tools

    \n I’ve been using MySQL for what seems like forever. I remember early on PHPmyAdmin and how great we thought it was as young web-developers. The reality is, using a database admin tool that is local on the server is a very dangerous thing indeed. It is also sometimes difficult to install on every server you work with. The best solution is a tool for managing and browsing your database that is native to your computer and not the server. There are a lot of tools out there, both free and not free, but I have yet to find a tool set that I like as well as the Official MySQL GUI tools. The tool set comes with three app. The Administrator and Browser do exactly what they say. The newer Workbench is a good bit cooler and needs to be explained in a bit more detail. …

  10. Mimic Gmail's threading feature in Mail

    \n I love gmails interface. I love using a browser to check and send mail. This being said, often times, I am off-line and need to veiw my mail-box. One of my favorite feature in gmail is the message threading. This makes reading (and finding) related messages. Using Mail’s smart folders, we can mimic this feature in Mail. …

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