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2014

2013

I’m not really a big fan of new year’s resolutions. I think it’s important to continually work on self-improvement, not...

January 1, 2014
Introspective

2013

Starting

Often starting is the hardest part. Inertia is hard and the act of going from nothing to something is often...

November 12, 2013
Introspective

2012

13 JavaScript Performance Tips

Daniel Clifford recently gave a great talk at Google I/O 2012 called “Breaking the JavaScript Speed Limit with V8”. In...

July 10, 2012
Javascript / Performance

Torbit Insight – Measure Your Real Performance

I’m extremely excited about our latest product launch at Torbit called Torbit Insight. Insight is all about measuring the performance...

April 30, 2012
Performance / Work

stop-sopa.js – along with WordPress, Blogger, and Typepad plugins

SOPA (the Stop Online Privacy Act) is a really bad thing that potentially threatens this wonderful thing we created called...

January 16, 2012
General

2011

Find the Time to First Byte Using Curl

I was recently looking for an easy way to find the time to first byte (TTFB) for a given url...

October 10, 2011
Code

PHP str_replace_last function

I recently found myself in need of a way to replace the last (and only the last) occurrence of a...

September 26, 2011
Code / PHP

Torbit is Hiring!

My current company Torbit is growing and we’re looking for a few good people to join us. If you want...

August 29, 2011
Work

How to programmatically find the continent from a given city or state

I recently ran across a somewhat unusual problem. I needed to find a programatic way to convert a string that...

August 24, 2011
Code / PHP

How Brad Schroeder’s DJ Service In Springfield, IL Nearly Ruined My Wedding

This is definitely going to be a rant.  If you come across this post and were considering hiring Brad Schroeder’s...

August 24, 2011
Rants
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