Latest Ramblings…
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Should I rent a car with Chase?
This is my first post on my new home away from Medium.com! And continuing with the shaking-up of things, this post is about some stuff I’ve never written about before, but which are very important…
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Keep Pictures of My Child Out of Your Device
My wife and I recently welcomed the birth of our first child, a perfect little girl. As fate would have it, we both have very big families, whom were equally anxious to see and greet…
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Generate Yoast Sitemap
If you’ve landed at this article, I’m assuming you already have some familiarity with Yoast and its purpose for existing. If you’re not in that bucket of folks, Yoast is a search engine optimization (SEO)…
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Why I Don’t Bring Smart Home Devices into My Home
We have seen such great advances in technology in the past couple of decades. Nearly everyone nowadays has a camera, a GPS navigation device, and a telephone inside their pocket. Now this marvelous technological advancement…
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Automattic, Three Months In
Do you enjoy waking up in the morning without an alarm? Maybe go out for a run or a gym session, without having to think about how long it’ll take you before you get back?…
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Another FAANG interview request. Thanks, but no thanks…
A 2 week long, open dialogue, will allow any employer to discern a candidate’s state of mind, and whether they have the knowledge and capability to perform the job. Unfortunately this isn’t the norm.
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How to Learn JavaScript
This is the third piece of my series on how to start a Software Development career. I recommend giving that a quick read if you haven’t already. Ahh JavaScript. What an interesting language you’ve been…
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MySQL: When to Order before Group
There is an order of operations when it comes to MySQL’s ORDER BY and GROUP BY functions. It’s something that is intrinsically understood but often difficult to know how and when to correctly apply it.…
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How to Learn PHP
This is the second piece of my series on how to start a Software Development career. I recommend giving that a quick read if you haven’t already. I’ve been writing PHP since 2011. Despite having…
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How to Start a Software Development Career
The first thing you should realize is that there isn’t just one proper way of doing it! Sure, you have your coding bootcamp’s and your college degree’s, but the main thing those require (in most…