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June 25, 2016
Launchcode Mentorship
I was mentoring this month for Launchcode. it has been a pretty good experience so far it would have been a nice option when I was learning. Many people in the industry do not have a formal education...
ReadJune 14, 2016
Looking Into Statamic Flat File CMS
I still have not built anything with Statamic but it seems really promising. Even at $200 a license I believe it would be worth it. Well at least if you are working on a site for a business. I would...
ReadMay 16, 2016
St Louis WordCamp 2016
WordCamp St. Louis was held this year again at Washington University St. Louis on May 14-15 2016. Over all it was a good time I always enjoy going to WordCamps. I figured I would post my notes here...
ReadMarch 25, 2016
Laravel and WebSockets
Working with WebSockets and Larvel is extremely easy! If you are new to Laravel it has an event system that you can use to dispatch events for other parts of your PHP code to use. As well as Laravel...
ReadMarch 5, 2016
Laravel Forge, Digital Ocean and WebSockets
I recently posted an overview of how to setup Web Sockets using Laravel and Socket.io. I wanted to follow it up with a quick post on how to get the Web Sockets functioning correctly on a Digital...
ReadJanuary 16, 2016
Why Does ExpressionEngine Save Templates in the Database?
This is a little bit of a rant and a large amount of it may be a result of my inexperience. This is in no way saying ExpressionEngine is bad and something like WordPress is better. I feel it is more...
ReadJanuary 12, 2016
Quickly Install Applications on Your Mac With Homebrew and Cask
I have been having some issues with my work Macbook and I needed to reinstall Mac OS X. I like to do a complete restore every so often any way since I like to hack and play with things so there is...
ReadDecember 24, 2015
Why Would You Use a Fixed Header?
It seems like I receive a request for a fixed header fairly regularly more than I should. I don’t really understand why you would want to fix the header of your site. So I figured I would layout...
ReadDecember 8, 2015
Vue.js Component Messaging Continued
So yesterday I posted about Vue.js component messaging. This is in a way a continuation so you will want to read that first "Vue.js Component Messaging". I had suggested that firing an event off of...
ReadDecember 7, 2015
Vue.js Component Messaging
The other day I was working through how to abstract an alert list into its own component. Basically it is an ul where each alert is a li pretty simple. So using Vue.js,...