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Site is launching soon

Will be updated within a week with an entirely new, responsive design.

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Development is coming along

With today’s update the site come’s much nearer to completion. I’m taking a brief detour for the next day or to to do some PHP work. Back soon!

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Site redesign nearly complete

Things are going great. Just need to implement a few of the more advanced functions.

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One Last Step…

Have been making solid progress but i’ve now come to the point where i need to step back from my own website for a bit and make some others. The current list: EverythingProof.com – A video blog...

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Custom Post Types: A Great Article

Justin Tadlock is a boss I just read an article (link below) of his on custom post types in WordPress that was illuminating. Also, it turns out he is another developer that jumped ship for Asia (he’s...

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Free Theme In The Works

I like coding (sometimes..). So I got it into my head that I should be making free WordPress themes. Sometimes freelancing and studying Mandarin just isn’t enough, so I’m making this post in an effort...

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The Next Two Weeks [Updated]

At the prompting of my good friend Nick, i’ve decided to set a definite goal for the next two weeks: $500. I’ve been enjoying fun sideprojects and random skill development for the past few months, but...

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WordPress Theming From Scratch

When I first started my exploration of WP I did so one small step at a time. When I look back on those initial stages of learning I think about how much quicker the process could have been if I had...

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Business Theme Good To Go

The theme is done! OK, no need for you to get that excited but for me this is big. I spent entirely too much time on that theme, but it was a great learning experience. This had a lot to do with what I...

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The Wonders of CSS Frameworks

Today was my first dive into CSS frameworks. Creating layout from scratch is perfectly doable but also perfectly tedious. I have yet to meet a developer who enjoys that aspect of it. We like the stages...

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I’m famous on GoBodyLanguage.com!

Well the intro video that I’m in is bellow the fold on the homepage of godbodylanguage but it counts as fame (right?). This is a course a good friend of mine created and launched today. I’m wishing...

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Victory! The realization of a goal.

Today I met the goal I set a month ago of making money as a freelancer. Well, that was a two week goal so I didn’t exactly meet it. But the work I did during those weeks working towards this goal was...

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Life Upgrades & Reasons To Write More

I Should Write More I don’t necessarily want to, but I should. A very nice article I read today by Nathan Marz basically hammered home an idea I already knew to be true: Writing often and eventually...

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Becoming A Developer Is A Process

Version Control Added to My List! Today I started seriously learning Git. Why? I’m tired to manual version control, and I enjoy adding new skills to the list of things I’ve learned to become a...

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Portfolio Update + Future Site Update

Today I Made Some New Additions The portfolio hasn’t seen an update in at least a few months, so I figured it’s about time I made an effort to make it reflect what I’ve actually been doing lately. So...

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Setting Up My WordPress Dev Server (Escaping MAMP)

So we’re going to be coding in PHP, guess what we need before we get started? A local development environmen! If you don’t know what that is, read the next paragraph. If you do, then skip down. Even if...

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The WP_Post Object

This is a quick reference for myself and anyone else who commonly uses the WP_Post object in WordPress. I find that I often forget exactly what attributes this object has so I finally decided to just...

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Learn Vim – Code Like a Boss

Learn Vim and remove the trackpad from your workflowSince your here, you probably alredy want to learn the amazing editing software that is Vim. But if you haven’t yet decided to take the plunge, here...

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Page reloads are a thing of the past

I occurred to me recently as I have been delving deeper into JavaScript and Backbone.js that single-page applications are the future. I say this because when I look back at older web pages they usually...

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Getting Productive With Fish Shell

Today I took it upon myself to try out the very new and very cool looking Fish Shell. This is the second time I have taken it upon myself to really dive into the customization of my Terminal and after...

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