I had a few goals for this summer away from school. I wanted to go to some tech conferences, check out more startups and web companies in both Silicon Valley and closer to home in Florida, and continue with my freelance development work. I also decided I wanted to take the Zend PHP 5 Certification test to learn more, see what I know, and to separate myself from every other kid who thinks they know PHP.
Hate scrolling down to see birthdays on Facebook? I just wrote a quick user script to reorder the parts in the sidebar on Facebook’s homepage.
Before: Requests, Suggestions, Sponsored, Highlights, Events/Birthdays, Connect
After: Requests, Events/Birthdays, Suggestions, Highlights, Sponsored, Connect
Google I/O 2009 Keynote, Day 2
4/28/2009
Google Wave - Product, Platform, and Protocol
Today I tried Mozilla Prism (cross platform) and Fluid (mac only), both of which are used to create single-site browsers (SSBs). I especially wanted to use them for GMail and Google Calendar since those are the two web apps I consistently have open in a tab at all times.
For a new project, I’m working on launching a large number of very similar WordPress installations with minimal effort. I needed a way to have WordPress automatically parse some kind of template tag or shortcode (like “[client_name]“) across all the different pages on the site. Not only that, I needed the field’s values to be easily updated in one place, and there would be an arbitrary number of shortcodes.
So I wrote my first WordPress plugin…
I got this message when trying to use Subversion on OS X through Terminal.
I checked out my svn version using “svn –version” and it said I was using 1.4.4 – so I decided to update. Here’s how…
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Some mental notes for myself in case I encounter this again, and maybe this will help someone as I was doing Google searches trying to figure this out myself…
A couple months ago I bought my first Mac computer with the release of the new MacBook Pros. The new machine is beautiful and the switch to OS X from Windows has been primarily positive overall.
There were a few things from Windows that I greatly missed, but I found solutions which worked:
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This summer I had the privilege to intern at Google and spent another summer in Silicon Valley – the hub of all things tech-related. My internship lasted 10 weeks and, much like my Yahoo! internship last summer (I gave my reasons for not going back to Yahoo! this summer), I had an incredible experience.
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