Life, the Internet and everything.
February 5th, 2013
Could the government use a distributed version control system, like Git, to establish a new level of political engagement and transparency?
Ars Technica reports on how the Obama’s tech team harnessed “the cloud” to unify massive and desperate databases of campaign and voter information to run a more intelligent political campaign.
Checkout online campaigning/crowdfunding sites like ActBlue and Rally (kind of like Kickstarter or Indiegogo).
March 31st, 2012
Hey Marist! Ever notice that the navigation on iLearn is basically broken:
I was tired of it so I whipped up a quick fix. After you get it working it should look something like this:
Much better right? You can check out the guide on Github.
At the moment I’ve only posted directions for Google Chrome, but I’m planning on getting a guide for firefox as well. You should be able to use any per-site css extension.
March 4th, 2012
Last night, I submitted a brand new bundle for Laravel PHP! Aware is an extension of Taylor Otwell’s Eloquent ORM, which allows you to define models with built-in validation.
Aware use’s Laravel’s Validator class so it’s easy to define validation rules:
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class User extends Aware {
/**
* Aware validation rules
*/
public static $rules = array(
'name' => 'required',
'email' => 'required|email'
);
...
} Aware models validate automatically when the save method is called:
$user = new User();
$user->name = 'Colby';
$user->email = 'crabideau5691';
$user->save(); // returns false
$user->email = 'crabideau5691@gmail.com';
$user->save(); // returns trueIf a model is invalid, you can access the errors from the validator like so:
$user->errors->all()For more detailed documentation and to browse the source check out the github repo.
January 10th, 2012
We just launched the RE:discover website!
RE:discover sports an eclectic mix of artwork and crafts from artists in all walks of life. The store boasts watercolors, mixed media art, photography, and antique pieces. Among displays are bags, jewelry, scarves, hats, and baby clothes. Some products that are customer favorites include: hand soaps and lotions, wind chimes, stained glass, wood work, and pottery.
The new site is alright, but it’s got nothing on the actual store! It’s definitely worth a visit!
DISCLAIMER: my Mom is the owner so I may or may not have some personal bias on the subject…
August 19th, 2011
After Monday’s headlines on Adobe Muse, I decided to check out the free beta for myself. For those of you who may not know, Muse is a new tool from Adobe to “design and publish HTML websites without writing code.” The interface will be quite familiar to those of you who have used Flash, Fireworks, Indesign, etc.
July 31st, 2011
It’s time to stop supporting IE6. No not because it isn’t standards compliant, or because the biggest companies on the web don’t think it’s economically feasible to continue to support archaic technology, or even because we would be doing our users a favor by forcing them to upgrade. No, it’s time because I don’t know how to build a web page that displays properly in IE6. I just don’t know how to IE6.
June 8th, 2011
So as it turns out, my cousin, Allie, is a rather good photographer and knowing that I’m a rather good web developer she asked if I could build her a website. I think the answer to that question is apparent.
May 22nd, 2011
Welcome to my new site. I’ve decided to try my hand at blogging from time to, so if you’re interested here’s where you’ll find my posts.
I would like to extend a very large thank-you to Harry Roberts of CSS Wizardry. Without Inuit CSS, his amazing CSS framework, this site would not have turn out nearly as pretty as it did :)
And for now I leave you to continue wandering the Interwebs.
Come back soon!!!
