Week or two ago, we got onto the subject of bands that people typically follow around on tour. You know these bands: Grateful Dead, Phish, Widespread Panic, etc. I used the term “followable band,” then realized that it’s kind of a challenging tongue twister. Say it aloud to yourself a few times. Ridiculous sounding, don’t [...]

When I was a kid in fifth grade elementary school, we went on a field trip to a place called Enterprise Village. Enterprise Village was a phony shopping mall, where kids would ‘work’ like adults did. For example, my job was to be the manager at Paragon cable, the local cable company (Paragon, and many [...]

I just came across Drush, a drupal command line utility. Sounds like something I should’ve checked into a long time ago. At least I do use the shell for a good amount of my work, but it looks like Drush could even further speed things up for me.

I know what a question mark is. I know what it means. I’ll bet you do, too.

Most sufferings and punishments end up teaching you some kind of lesson. Like, if you stub your toe in the morning because you moved too fast or you hadn’t had any coffee quite yet. But what about catching a cold? You know, the normal cold that shows up in the fall, when the weather goes [...]

Packt Publishing was kind enough to send a copy of MODx Web Development by Antano Solar John for my review. The book covers the essentials of building a site with MODx, and it’s a pretty good read.

modx CMS is quite different than other CMSs. In fact, it’s quite a refreshing change. Instead of worrying about nodes, views, sections, categories, and all the other fun stuff that goes along with building CMSs, modx takes a much different approach: You worry about the output. Period. It’s quite different.

Another flying car has been debuted, the PAL-V One, intended for the regular, every day public person. It’s still not quite the type of flying cars I’ve been waiting for, but it’s a bit different than the one with wings I saw a few weeks back.