Author Archives: Mike

discuss your dreams

I had the opportunity to discuss the web project that I am currently working on with a friend and I was surprised at how much it made me want to jet out of the room and work on it. Discussing your dreams or goals is an excellent way for you to rediscover just why you [...]

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not scaling equals failing

when starting a web project you need to dream big! No I am not talking about hitting it big with the next facebook or YouTube and rolling in the snobby circles of Silicon Valley, but thinking big in regards to the back-end development of your site or web application. Being in the beginning stages of [...]

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favicon distraction

While I should have been working diligently through my PHP book today, I was distracted messing around with my favicon (I tend to get distracted messing around with Fireworks all too often). For those unfamiliar, a favicon is the little icon that comes up by the address bar and shows up when you bookmark a [...]

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holy crap it worked!

Theme customization is easier than I thought. After starting around 11pm I was done about 2:30am, not bad for my first time. Basically I got the Thematic theme set up on my localhost and pulled up the default.css file and went to town. Not really being sure of the consequences of my actions within the [...]

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back in action

Its time to quit fooling around and put the nose to the old grind stone, oh and put out some good content along the way. I am hoping to chronicle my journey into web development, and the first major project will be the customization of this site. Perhaps a little history is in order….
I began [...]

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