Writing

After all these years, there's a DEEP ocean of projects and systems mitra62 has been involved with.

Oct 2010

Programming, Code

Care About What Matters

It’d been a while since I’ve had the free time to write something and I really didn’t think it’d be…

Sep 2010

Programming, Code

Developing ExpressionEngine 1.6x Extensions

I recently had a project come up that could have gone one of two ways from a strategic design stand…

Aug 2010

Programming, Rant, Code

Mailpress 5.0 Email Validation Bug

A couple weeks ago I received an email from a client of mine about a bug one of their clients…

Aug 2010

Programming, Code

WP-Click-Track 0.7.2 Released

Today I finally found the time to release an update to wp-click-track with a few bugs that some users have…

Jul 2010

Brain Dump, Programming, Code

ExpressionEngine White Screen Fix

The more I work with ExpressionEngine the more I keep running into the same issues. ExpressionEngine hides most error messages,…

Jul 2010

Brain Dump, Programming, Code

Portability Is A Good Goal

For most web developers that I’ve met and worked with, at least, the concept of “hard coding” variable values, especially…

Jun 2010

Brain Dump, Programming, Code

Create Expression Engine Plugin

In Expression Engine Escaping Madness I laid out an issue I was experiencing with a client site. The issue was…

Jun 2010

Programming, Code

hResume hKit Profile

While working on Wp-hResume (a neat plugin for adding any hResume encoded resume to a WordPress site) I needed to…

May 2010

Brain Dump, Programming, Rant, Code

A Closer Look At Avactis

Avactis is another in a long line of e-commerce web applications written in php (similar to OpenCart and PrestaCart), this…

May 2010

Brain Dump, Programming

Should We Use OpenCart?

As a continuation of my research into choosing an appropriate shopping cart application for an upcoming project I’m working on…

May 2010

Code

Wp-Click-Track 0.7.1

Dreamhost is slandering me! They think I suck and have no problem telling people as much. Seriously; I write bad…

May 2010

Programming

Should We Use PrestaShop?

I’m getting ready to put together an e-commerce site soon and, with the budget what it is (sigh), I have…

May 2010

Programming, Rant, Code

Expression Engine Escaping Madness

In my pursuit for financial independence I’ve been taking on random freelancing gigs from some really smart and interesting clients.…

Apr 2010

Programming, Code

Zend Framework URL View Helper

I’ve been working with Zend Framework a lot lately, which is one reason for the drought in posting, and have…

Mar 2010

Programming, Code

Remove Boonex Footer From Dolphin CMS

After the server lockout and subsequent move last week I had to setup all my old sites on the new…

Mar 2010

Servers

A New Kind of Failure Point

It all started with a simple email from a client with the subject line “Broken Link”; looked like one of…

Feb 2010

Brain Dump, Code

The Horrors of C99.php

If you were a sysadmin a few years ago, and you had php on your servers, you’re probably already familiar…

Feb 2010

Programming, Code

Easily Add Gravatar to Your PHP Apps

Among the few hassles to being a citizen of the Internets, along with multiple login credentials, comment trolls and pedophiles…

Feb 2010

Brain Dump, Rant

Google Didn’t Fuck You; You Did

With the release of Google Buzz last week a lot of people have been screaming bloody murder over some privacy…

Feb 2010

Programming, Code

Half Assed Cron With WP Cron

I was working on a project recently that was using WordPress as the base platform and had a need for…

Jan 2010

Code

Introducing WP-hResume

Recently I had a problem; the plugin I was using to display my resume on my site mysteriously started causing…

Jan 2010

Programming

Parse Apache Log Files With PHP

Parsing the log files generated by Apache is one of those random tasks with a random occurrence in my world.…

Dec 2009

Brain Dump

WP-Click-Track 0.7 Released (Umm Last Week)

I hadn’t really had much time to announce this (what with the holidays and stuff) but last week WP-Click-Track 0.7…

Dec 2009

Blackberry Secret Codes

After my little foray into unlocking my old Blackberry Curve I started to think that there were probably other special…