There’s no denying that Wordpress is a great blogging solution; it’s free, easily extensible, and has great community support. But creating your own themes from scratch can be time-consuming and repetitive. There’s no need to re-invent the wheel, unless it can’t serve the desired purpose. Read More
Several months ago I came across the 960 grid system and became very intrigued. The package of Cascading Style Sheet files promises to enable rapid development of websites while providing an easy-to-use grid structure.
Recently I was working on an event management project in PHP & MySQL which made me realize that there must be a good solution for interacting with dates and times; a solution that doesn’t rely on PHP’s date format being stored as character data in MySQL, and doesn’t require the parsing out of MySQL’s DATETIME format in PHP. Both PHP and MySQL have built-in functions for dealing with dates; it seems silly to have to give up one set of functionality for the other.
I work at a local Best Buy now. It’s kind of funny because I started watching the TV show Chuck last year in college, and I loved it. Who knew after graduation I might be working at the “Buy More” and being taught to loathe “Large Mart”.
Apples to Peaches
I’ve been down in Atlanta for over a month and a half now. The warm weather is really nice and being so close to my fiancée is a wonderful change. I’m almost completely done with all the change-of-address paperwork, which I’m really excited about.
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