Watched Family Guy: Family Goy on Hulu.
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Watched Community: Environmental Science on Hulu.
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Watched The Office: Shareholder Meeting on Hulu.
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Watched Fringe: Momentum Deferred on Hulu.
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Tips on Personal Sites
Over the last six months or so, I've found myself spending a large amount of time working on personal websites. What is a personal site? Well, as a web developer I work on three broad categories of websites: fulltime-job websites that have to work… [read more]
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Epic Hiking Adventures Plan
One of my fondest memories of my years in Houghton, MI is the waterfall project of 2008-2009. Even though it took an actual project to get me to explore the beautiful wilderness of the Upper Peninsula, I really looked forward to my hours of wandering… [read more]
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MVC CSS Stylesheets
While working on redoing my website using a custom model-view-controller framework I decided that it was a good time to do some extra cleanup. After all, cleaning up the backend only changes the content portion of the site. There's much more to… [read more]
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Using Headers for Caching
One of my main goals while redoing my website is to optimize my content, both on the frontend and backend. The frontend is something that I've always considered to be the most important in terms of a fast user experience - I'm not crunching enough… [read more]
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Website Overhaul
It may be no surprise to any of my long-term visitors, but I've decided to perform a deep overhaul of my website. Based partly on my recent introduction to model-view-control frameworks and partly on research into web caching and optimization, I've… [read more]
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Google Static Map API Introduction
On several of my previous blog posts I ran into the need to show something on a map. While Google Maps was the initial idea to implement, all I wanted was a single image with a few lines or markers. Embedding a map seemed a bit much for this simple… [read more]
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Driving through the Huron Mountains
The roads in the Huron Mountains are the result of years of logging, recreation, and lack of maintenance. As the only maps of this area show all possible routes as random, haphazard wiggles, it takes time to understand which roads are drivable and… [read more]
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Blog Updates and Comments
This blog was started in March of 2009 during a pivotal moment of my life. I had recently been fired from Michigan Tech, my first post-college job, and was using my free time to create a website to allow me to both market and develop myself… [read more]
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AJAX Dynamic Template Solution
One issue I've always had with the typical templating methods over the years is the waste of bandwidth. Even with smart functionality on the backend combining the dynamic and static information on each page, you're still sending an entire new html… [read more]
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Red Road Cliffs
Most visitors to the Keweenaw Peninsula will remember The Cliffs by their name alone. A sudden up thrust of stark rocky cliffs stretching from Mohawk past Phoenix along US-41 with towering trees and large piles of poor rock is hard to miss, and for… [read more]
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Basic Tag Cloud
This post assumes basic understanding of PHP, HTML, and CSS. [read more]
