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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. Two pro tricks in MySQL

    Chances are you use some form of gui when you interact with MySQL. Imaright? I don’t. I prefer to use the command line tools for pretty much everything that I do. MySQL is no exceptions. That being said, these two tricks are very helpful, even if you normally use a gui…in fact, the second trick will work in the gui’s as well, ‘cause it is really just some really cool sql.\n The first thing that we are looking at is how we end a sql statement. Typically, you use the ‘;’ to end your statements like this: …

  2. Finally Made it to 17

    I usually like to on the cutting edge of my Linux, so it’s kind of a shocker that I just now installed Fedora 17 on my laptop. I intended t o do it much sooner, but important projects kept getting in the way. I finally did a preupgrade and tried to update my live system….but ended up crashing it anyway. I did a reinstall and it was for the better. I had a somewhat precarious partitioning scheme in place and I had recently upgrqaded my ram to the max 8 gigs for my machine…so some re-partitioning was certainly in order.\n I must say that I am impressed again with the latest Fedora offering. Now I can’t wait for 18!! …

  3. NorthEastern PHP Conference

    \nThis last weekend I was up in Boston speaking and attending a php developers conference. It was a magical weekend! It’s always great to be surrounded my fellow developers! This was the first time the conference was held, and the folks behind it did a great job for a first time! Got to spend time with old friends and made some great new ones! I can’t wait for more PHP development action! It’s now my goal to make it to PHP Benelux AND FOSSDEM for some back to back nerdiness in Belgium! …

  4. Google Play

    It’s been a while since I’ve posted, I know that. Been a bit busy. =) I want to write a bit about Google Play. I uploaded most of my music a while back and it seems a good service. The only issue that I had at the outset, was the lack of desktop integration. Then I found Nuvola Player. It is really a browser front end for several cloud music services, including Google Play…that also gives Desktop Integration. So it’s a cool deal. It has become my new player. I am gunning to get a lot of this stuff like music in the cloud so that I can access it from everything. My next step is to really integrate Google Drive better, then my next major purchase will be the new Google Nexus…=) …

  5. POSSCON 2012 Day 2 and Afterthoughts

    Well, Thursday was the closing day of POSSCON. What can I say? It was awesome sauce! Great speakers, good times. Scott McNeely’s talk was good and full of perspective. Don’t agree with him on two topics: php and software patents…but I am more of a NGO type (if you were there, you’ll get it!)\nThe BOF Lunch was good times too. We had some good interest in the PHP users group. …

  6. POSSCON 2012 Day 1

    Well, I am not going to sleep until I blog about POSSCON. It really started yesterday evening with the Engine Yard Beer Social. That was a ton of fun! Then today we had a blast. A bunch of great talks. Dave Stokes gave a great talk about some of the new stuff to expect in the next version of MySQL…it’s exciting. Also, great talks from the president of SugarCRM, Mad Dog, and others. It was a great start. And of course then end of the day was the Git Hub Drink UP. Wow!! What a crowd!! Certainly the biggest POSSCON ever!! …

  7. Yay Updates!

    So, I made two major updates to the blog code today. First of all, I imported all my old blog posts going back to good old 2008. Secondly, I added pagination to the blog so you can view all the old posts!! Yay me!!\n …

  8. PHP 5.4.0 is out! Web Server Review!

    Let me start out by saying that I have been waiting for this feature for a while now. When ever I male forays into the world of Rails and Python I always come back to php just a little bit jealous of the testing servers that come with them. Well, in just a little bit, I will be jealous no more!! \n First things first. We must install the latest version of php. I use Fedora for my development machine, so I am going to give you the steps you need in YUM for doing this. I recommend a little google search for the easiest way to do this in your distro….actually, you really need to setup a repo that will let you keep to the latest version of php anyway. …

  9. Finally, the feed works

    I finally had the time to sit down and write a RSS feed for my blog. I obviously wrote it in php using codeigniter. There are a few good tutorials out there, but let me add my own ten cents to the pile!!\n So the first spot is the controller. I created a controller called Feed. I also could have just created a method under my Blog controller, but I find this is a little bit neater code. …

  10. The Importance of Wireframes

    The creation of a wireframe is a very important part of the web development process. Lots of different designers have their own way. There are programs that you can use to make wireframes. I personally prefer to draw mine by hand. Here is an example of a few screens that I designed for a client. (add wireframe png later) …

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