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I have beem using php modulus operator for creating rows of content for my entire career. Laravel got me to think outside the box and see if there was a different way to achieve the same result. First

Some information has finally surfaced about Laravel 4 and let me be the first to say. It sounds AWESOME!. [Read Dayle Rees blog post about the bright future of Laravel for more details.](http://dayler

I am loving [Laravel](http://laravel.com), it is truely a PHP framework for web artisans. It is really opening up a lot of new possibilities for me when it comes to accomplishing project goals. I lite

I created these two little shell scripts because I dislike repetitive processes. The [addsite shell script](https://gist.github.com/3695220) will modify an nginx virtual host configuration template fi

This is awesome. I'm not sure exactly what I just did, but I feel like I have broken the chains that Apache had around me. I feel so light and airy now. The transition was pretty easy, but I kept gett

If you use OS X, then you better have [Alfred](http://www.alfredapp.com). He makes common routines absolutely pleasant. Since Alfred is a fairly young program I couldn't find the exact extension that

This is a quick and dirty instead of using SSH, which is fine for my staging server.\n\nFirst thing I did was enable ufw, ubuntu's firewall program \n \n sudo ufw enable\n\nThis closed the ports that

I gave [Github for Mac](http://mac.github.com/) a chance. I was really excited actually. I found an old project called HubCap that never took flight and it reminded me of Github for Mac.\n\nAfter abou

Github is a fabulous resource for all types of code management. I discovered Githubs webhooks thanks to a coworker who set it up on our development and production servers. Push to the staging repo and

That was a joke, but I want something with vinegar now. I was looking at the different prototyping tools that are available and came across Balsamiq. I had heard of it before, think I watched a demo o

So I got hacked and didn't even know it. I am still having trouble finding where the exploit actually is living. This happened while I was trying to add some git-hooks to my server and tried to add a

Another sublime comes along and apparently lives up to its name. Reports have been pretty good for Sublime video and its claim to give html5 video support to older browsers. I would say more but their

[html5slides by GoogleCode](http://code.google.com/p/html5slides) looks pretty cool and is sure to be the playground for my next presentation. Written by Luke Mahé and Marcin Wichary, html5slid

Good question! You see, there was a time, when I believed that PHP was a programming language. However I have come to realize that it is, in fact a templating engine with a programming language at its

[Sublime Text 2](http://www.sublimetext.com) is just, well sublime. Just started using it but this is the longest i've gone without opening textpad or macvim since I started using Mac's again. I alway

I was looking for a way to sort the [jQuery](http://jquery.com) [DataTables](http://datatables.net/index) plugin dynamically. I use a simple classname *.datatables* to convert a table into a full feat

jQuery's ValidationEngine is very useful and extremely flexible when you add your own custom validators. Below are a few that I added recently, that the world might find useful.\n\n \"ssn\": {\n \"re

Transmitting Social Secuirty Numbers over the internet is a process that needs to be secured. There are federal and state laws that restrict the ways that Social Security Numbers can be displayed, tra

My blog post [Discovering Binpress](http://devken.com/posts/discovering-binpress-one-programmers-guide-to-selling-code-online-in-ten-easy-steps) about the [binpress.com](http://www.binpress.com) websi

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I love movies or books that depict the future of tech, and there is a special place in my heart for things that seem realistic and acheivable. Today I witnessed, in my browser window, the future comin

URL shortening was born out of necessity. I first found it while trolling an IRC channel. Someone posted a link that did not seam right. Clicking on it redirected to the intended destination. I put my

MySQL is a powerful database. Knowing what to use and when can really make life easier as a project progresses. I think it is important to design a database where data integrity is the most important