Journal

Consultant

A rather epic post from Dad Hacker on the mythical uber consultant. Defiantly worth the read.

Hide Those Templates

When using Expression Engine sometimes you don’t want a template accessible to anyone that could stumble across a url. Most likely you’ll be using these templates as embedded fragments to make up the common parts of a page. They’re incomplete...

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Science fans vs. Scientists

I can honestly say this is very true. Some of the most mathematically gifted people I know who can derive amazingly complex equations in their heads, don’t know pi to more than 10 places.

There’s alot more to life than memorizing universal constants, or as Einstein famously said “why would I bother memorizing that, when I can just look it up?”

Upular

Seriously good mixup from Up. If you liked Bangarang, you’ll love this.

Thoughts on Paid Upgrades

A good piece by Brandon Kelly on the economics of EE addons and where paid upgrades to addons live in that.

On Sheds

It is a widely held truth that a man cannot truly be called a real man until he owns a shed. By that definition, as of three weeks ago Wednesday, I am a real man. I have a real shed....

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Version 5

This would be version 5 of my site. What’s changed?

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EECI 2009 Wrap Up

EECI2010 has just been announced. It’s a little late, but here’s my brief write up of EECI2009, hosted in Leiden, October 21-22 2009.

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Bike Sheds

Blue? No Red. Maybe Green? Let’s schedule another meeting to discuss it.

The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved

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