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July 18, 2015

Check Out Ghost Inspector

I saw this cool tool the other day on Twitter Ghost Inspector which allows your to record your actions or setup by drag/drop website regression testing. I've done some work with Nightwatch.js which...

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July 17, 2015

Setting Up a Jekyll Blog - Part 2

So we are already to write our first post. To create a new post all you have to do is make a new file in the _posts directory and title it YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.MARKUP. If you prefer to...

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July 16, 2015

Setup Vhosts in MAMP

Setting up Vhosts in MAMP is really easy. VHost is short for Virtual Host which is basically just a way to access multiple "sites" on a server. Instead of changing MAMP to point at the site you want...

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July 15, 2015

Display PHP Errors in MAMP

Granted you never make any mistakes I am sure. However just in case you do you can easily enable error reporting on MAMP to help catch the obvious ones. All you have to do is edit the...

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July 14, 2015

Setting Up a Jekyll Blog - Part 1

I found Jeykll fairly easy to setup not quite 5 minute setup easy but not to bad. Honestly I spent most of the time reading the documentation which is simple and excelent. I did want to go through...

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July 12, 2015

Moving From Sublime to Atom

I try to keep a semi-open mind when I see a new tool like Atom. I had tried a few new editors such as Brackets which was really cool but still had some growing up to do. I also tried PHPStorm I...

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July 10, 2015

Moving From WordPress to Ghost to Jekyll

So I had previously moved my blog from WordPress to Ghost. I really like the fact that ghost is a lot lighter and you can write your posts in markdown by default. For hosting a blog I almost feel...

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April 4, 2015

Check Out Hyperpolygot

If you've been curious how one programming languages syntax matches with another then you should check out Hyperpolygot. I was kind of amazed how close Javascript, PHP, Python, and Ruby are on a...

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April 1, 2015

Why I Decided to Use a Themeforest Theme

I usually get the itch to revamp my personal website every 6 months to a year. I tend to spend a weekend hacking away at my theme and I get about 85% done before feeling stuck. This in turn makes...

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March 28, 2015

Easily Retrieve Browser Information

As we all know not all browsers like to behave the same. Also many clients just click the Big Blue E and do not know what browser they use. Such and such is broken in IE, Firefox, etc. Obviously...

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