What’s With The Lack Of Updates?
Yeah — sorry about that. Things have been pretty crazy around here lately. I’m not complaining though, I’ve been working on two rather large projects and having an excellent time doing so.
When I get a bit more time, I’ll put some information about them up here. If all goes well, one of them should be going live on Monday. Once it does, it’ll be the largest site that I’ve ever built from the ground up. So large in fact, that I had to work with a contractor for the last 8 months to get everything up to this point.
Here’s something to pique your interest in the meantime; I’ve just developed a new website for the folks over at Digital Embyro. Feel free to take a look at the portfolio entry for it. It’s a completely custom WordPress 3 install. First time I used child themes, too (awesome, by the way).
Anyway, stay tuned for my next update — I promise you’ll like it!
WordCamp Philly, Here I Come!
WordCamp Philly is coming up faster than I thought it would — it’s right around the corner now. I’m all registered and can’t wait to fill my head with all of that delicious WordPress information. I’m also really looking forward to all of the speakers this year including my friends Sean Blanda (one of the three co-founders of Techically Philly) and Reed Gustow. Are you going?
Movember Madness!
Cancer among men is far more serious than I originally thought. Apparently 1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime. That gives me a 50% chance of being at risk. Since I can’t do anything about that, the least I can do is try to raise some money that will be used to help with research.
The company I work for, Yikes, Inc, has created a Movember Team that I’m a part of called, “Yikes! Nice Stache“. We’re going to see how much money we can raise for cancer research by growing some sweet mustaches.
As of right now, we’ve raised a total of $15. If anyone could donate, I’d really appreciate it. Even just helping me spread the word about my team would be fantastic. I know it seems kind of silly to grow a mustache to increase cancer awareness, but it’s really for a good cause.
The money raised as a result of Movember is channeled by their beneficiary partners into a number of world class and innovative research, support, education, and awareness initiatives. Movember funds raised in the US benefit the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG.
If you have any words of encouragement, suggestions on what kind of of mustache I should grow or anything else to say — feel free to leave it in the comments!
Date Counter Bookmarklet
Ever needed to calculate a date in the future but didn’t feel like looking it up? My girlfriend Katie was looking up dates for an invoice so I created a bookmarklet that takes a number of days and then alerts it to screen so you can copy and paste it. I might end up fixing it in the future so that it’ll print the result to whatever field is currently focused, but for now, you’ll all have to make due.
FutureDateNeed State and Country Dropdowns? No Problem!
Frequently while programming, I find myself in need of a complete list of the States, their abbreviations and sometimes even Countries. Usually I end up prowling Google trying to find some sort of list that I can then import in to a database. Each time I did it I kept wondering why I hadn’t created some script for that yet.
I know it’s more efficient to make use of a database with tables for States and Countries, however, in the event that I don’t need one or am just doing some sort of one off solution, I’ve created a couple functions and two arrays to help myself, and maybe you guys out. Need Dropdown? I Have ‘Em!