Blog
86 posts on engineering, product, startups, and the web, going back to 2006.
- Web Development31
- Personal27
- Startups19
- Programming12
- JavaScript11
- California9
- Google9
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- Entrepreneurship8
- Yahoo!8
- Uncategorized6
- PHP6
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- CSS5
- Security5
- Apple5
- Design4
- SaaS4
- WordPress4
- Close.io3
- UX3
- OS X3
- Python3
- Books3
- Quizlet3
- College3
- Leadership2
- Remote2
- AWS2
- Engineering2
- Productivity2
- backbone.js2
- Collectors Weekly2
- UF2
- Magento2
- Google Wave2
- io20092
- Firefox2
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- My IKEA standing desk
- How to view a color diff of text from two PDFs
- Render a PDF from html using xhtml2pdf and mimerender in Flask
- Sweating the UI & UX details in Close.io: Emails & Email Addresses
- My Backbone.js book published!
- The problem with pull requests / code reviews
- The startups and services behind Close.io
- Press around Close.io
- End of 2012 Review
2012
- Manage GitHub Issues milestones in Trello
- How to unit test AJAX Requests with QUnit and Sinon.JS
- How to allow direct file uploads from JavaScript to Amazon S3 signed by Python
- Guest post on TechCrunch: Full-Stack Web Team
- Launched Close.io – sales communication software
- Mac Software I Use
- Quick notes from Startup School 2012
- Stripe CTF 2.0 – Web Security
- Objective Process for Product Reviews
- Uploading static assets (CSS/JS) to S3 for CloudFront CDN
- PhilFreo.com v3 (and past versions)
- How to upgrade MacPorts to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
- Why is this so hard… Apple
- Two Years at Quizlet
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2009
- Book Review: “jQuery 1.3 with PHP”
- Graduation thoughts: best classes at UF for Computer Engineering
- Largest website width to support 1024×768 resolution
- ExpressionEngine: “Freo Add-on Installer” makes installing add-ons a breeze
- Book Review: “Magento: Beginner’s Guide”
- Magento eCommerce – First Thoughts & Tips
- Fixing Safari’s 1px background-image centering bug
- Interesting TED Talk on Motivation
- Now I’m a PHP5 Zend Certified Engineer
- Greasemonkey script: Facebook Reorder Sidebar
- Google I/O Keynote 2009, day 2
- Notes from Google I/O Keynote 2009, day 1
- Standalone icons for Prism & Fluid: Gmail, GCal, & Wave
- WordPress Plugin: Arbitrary Shortcodes
- On OSX, svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’; please get a newer Subversion client
- Upgrading MySQL, PHP MySQL Client Version, phpMyAdmin
- Switch to MacBook Pro and OS X
2007
2006
- Some Advice for Facebook on Integration
- CSS Tabs, BrowserCam, and Temporary Email Addresses
- Yahoo! Time Capsule / Cali Fun / OpenDNS
- Update on Google Calendar
- New Website Launched – 24/7 Tutor
- Issues with Google Calendar
- Interesting School Projects
- Facebook, part 3
- “Facebook Notes”
- developers.facebook.com
- Look, I’m famous…
- Internship with Yahoo! Completed
- Yahoo! Corporate Blog Launched
- Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) JS Libraries updates released
- Some lessons on business from traveling
- Fun times in Cali – including BarCamp
- Yahoo! Summer Internship Offer
- Wohoo, a Blog – and a job with Yahoo!