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Longer pieces on things I’ve thought about, worked on, or figured out.

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PostPersonalFirst month at KobasSo I’ve been working for roughly a month at Kobas now, I think things have been going very well and I wanted to highlight what I’ve been working on for the last couple of weeks. For anyone…3 Jul 20163 min
PostReviewsAn honest review of the Surface Pro 3I bought a Surface Pro 3 in November 2014, I haven’t wrote anything at all about my thoughts on it since purchasing it, I figured it was better to wait until I had actually been using it for…11 Jun 20163 min
PostPersonalGoodbye Vancouver, Hello LondonSo I have left beautiful British Columbia and I’m back in Europe, in London of all places. I’ve gone full circle it seems! I’m not going to bother going into the details of why I left…26 May 20162 min
PostSystemsFree SSL Certificates with LetsEncrypt and Ajenti-vThis is a quick post on how to use LetsEncrypt SSL certificates on your Ajenti-v setup . Ajenti-v will probably be supporting this natively at some point, there is an open issue on their…21 Mar 20162 min
PostProgrammingEasy Caching with StashPHPFrequently with PHP you are going to need to cache things, mostly expensive SQL queries, but also data you aren’t going to want to be inserting into the database on every page hit, for…8 Sep 20153 min
PostProductivitySoftware I’m using to track tasks & timeSo lately I’ve been trying to manage my time better, with countless personal projects and legacy applications to support I find not properly tracking what I’m doing to surprisingly be more…29 Mar 20152 min
PostSystemsThe Perfect Web Server - Nginx, Ajenti, UbuntuI’ve done a lot of installing of web servers over the last while, some of which have been effortless, others a thorn in my side. I’ve decided to compile a guide for my latest server setup…18 Feb 20152 min
PostProgrammingBeing a PHP Developer in 2015This is just some thoughts on being a PHP developer in 2015. A standard web project before used to just require you to setup a local web server, and then you’d upload to a standard web host…27 Jan 20152 min
PostProgrammingApache Localhost Rendering Slowly?Is your localhost taking longer than expected to load? A possible quick fix is to edit your httpd.conf file and set 'ServerName' to 127.0.0.1:80 . This can make the difference between…3 Nov 20141 min
PostPersonalWhat Programmers say vs What they meanThis was something going around the internet in 2014, I’m not sure on the original source. There does seem to be an updated version here now. What we say What we mean Horrible hack Ho…31 Oct 20142 min
PostPersonalWe're Back / Moving ForwardSo I’ve truly neglected here, my original space on the internet.. It’s been almost two years since my last post, which was really just a code snippet. So moving forward I’m going to be…22 Oct 20143 min
PostProgrammingPopulating a Form with a dropdown (jQuery)I thought I’d share this, maybe it’ll help somebody else. Basically this will take the value of the drop down (select) and show() that many input fields. Javascript $(document).ready…5 Feb 20121 min