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Applied DevOps, Chef-gm
Note: This was drafted 2/23/2014 but i’ve decided to publish for historical purposes. DevOps has evolved a lot since this post was written but I believe the goals and purpose are still applicable. – 6/17/2016 As an application developer, I didn’t know much about the emerging philosophy of DevOps but I did know that manually provisioning servers was slow…
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Dig South Hackathon #hackcharleston
Last weekend I participated in the Dig South Hackcharleston: Code for the Cause event with my sister as team Apparctica. The overnight hackathon was held during a five day Interactive Festival out of Charleston, SC called Dig South and organized in partnership with The Iron Yard. Ten groups of one to three developers, designers and pitch men assimilated in the TD Arena downtown…
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Supernova Pop Released in App Store
August of 2013 I started developing my first game using Cocos2d at a Hackathon and finally got around to releasing it to the public this weekend. It’s free with ad support on iOS. The game is a simple arcade game that tests your reaction time within an ever expanding universe. Jonathan Mayhak and I would…
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New WXRY-FM 99.3 Playlist
Lately I’ve been building large applications and haven’t had a chance to do any small units of work so when I saw this post on Facebook, I decided it’d be a fun thing to try. A local non-profit radio station in Columbia, 99.3 WXRY-FM, was looking for a volunteer to make a searchable playlist for…
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Upcoming Development Talk @Refresh Columbia 10/24/13
I’ll be giving a talk at the next Refresh Columbia meeting on October 24th, 2013 at 6:00PM on an introduction to Vagrant and how it relates to other development environments. Developers and designers should benefit from this topical overview. Tired of spending hours setting up your development environment…
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Custom Gaming PC With Apple Thunderbolt Display and Discrete GPU
I recently set out to see if I could build a gaming PC with a discrete graphics card that works with the 27″ Apple Thunderbolt Display. I wanted to know if it were possible and if it would run the recent relaunch of FFXIV. During my research phase, I came across many forums where people…
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Xdebug breakpoints not working MAMP, PHPStorm
I had an issue with Xdebug not stopping at breakpoints except for the first line of code in only one of my local PHP projects. Strangely enough xdebug_break() still worked everywhere I put it. My first thought was that a PHPStorm project setting with the debugger was awry. After searching and trying many different php.ini…
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How to fix a 2006 Honda Civic’s Cruise Control in 30 minutes
I’ve had my 2006 Honda Civic for a while now. I don’t drive as much since graduation because I telecommute so I’ve only got 61,000 miles as of now. For the most part, it’s been good to me. There have been a few recalls that i’ve participated in but I guess that’s what I signed…
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GeekDesk with Custom Ikea Top Height Adjustable Standing Desk
I set out to build a desk that could be height adjusted with the push of a button because I wanted to be able to sit or stand at any given moment. After considering much cheaper and more expensive options I went with a custom GeekDesk build which has worked out perfectly. It arrived fast…