How to Get Started Building a Web Site
There are a number of services available now that make building and maintaining an attractive, effective web site easy and fun. But whether you’re building a basic web site, blog or advanced web...
View ArticleOpen Source Mailing List Application for Mailgun’s PHP SDK
If you’re a developer looking for a simple streamlined mailing list service – or a super scalable one, check out my tutorial at Mailgun’s blog: Open Source Mailing List Applet Using the Mailgun PHP...
View ArticleAmazon’s Civic Apps Contest Disappears
This post was updated at 2 pm PST with Amazon response, cached contest documentation and prize amounts. Amazon has apparently “unlaunched” and postponed its $100,000+ Civic Apps Contest for AWS. Amazon...
View ArticleMarco Arment’s Dev Talk at XoXo Fest
As a frequent indy software developer (Geogram, Filtered, EasyList, et al.) I greatly enjoyed Marco Ament’s talk at Xoxo and wish him the best with his upcoming podcast app, Overcast.fm:The post Marco...
View ArticleHow to Store Two Way Encrypted Passwords (and Credit Cards) in MySQL
As part of my open source IMAP mail filtering applet, Filtered, I wrote code to securely encrypt and store email user names and passwords in a MySQL database so that they can be decrypted as well. The...
View ArticleBuild Your Own Email Features with Open Source Filtering Software
Filtered is an open source PHP-based IMAP mail filtering platform. While Filtered provides basic mail filtering features and learns from the folders you drag and drop your email to, it is also a...
View ArticleAn Interesting Occurrence of a Small Production PHP Bug
Recently, I created a bug at Meeting Planner which took some time to track down. Everything worked on my local development environment, but adding dates and times and places and making meeting choices...
View ArticleHow to Fix Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server
Are you getting an error for Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server? I ran into this after a common Ubuntu 14.x update. It broke one of my production sites. After some research and...
View ArticleVertical Block Selection and Editing in Atom is Amazing
I feel like I’ve waited my whole life for an editor that just does vertical block selection editing simply and easily. Even type and replace selection across the vertical block works. How did I do it...
View ArticleMy PHP Programming Interview with Cloudways
Recently, managed cloud hosting platform Cloudways interviewed me about my path in PHP programming and software development on the way to launching Meeting Planner. They asked me about how I started...
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