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Abstraction
- Using JSON ResumeFive years ago I played around with a PHP class to contain my resume content and abstract out optional pieces. …
- Data Repositories in PHPI’ve always been a bit wary about ORMs. While I understand the appeal of modeling a data structure in …
- Building an API ClientOver the last few years I’ve found myself writing and implementing a number of client libraries for …
- Fuzzy DistanceAround this time last year I was playing around with fuzzy dates - that is, formatting a machine date (like …
- Using Gecoding to Find the 'Closest City'Outside of fetching elevation information for each point on the upcoming waterfall refactor I decided to add a …
- Google Elevation APIA related piece to the new waterfall site (that I’m still actively working on) is geodata - that is, the …
- Web Crawlers are DifficultIn my last post I explained what a web crawler was and some of the basic steps that someone could break up the …
- Building a Web CrawlerA web crawler is a script that goes out and crawls the web. Pretty surprising, eh? There are many crawlers out …
- Stop Calling Everything a CMSContent Management Systems (aka CMS) is being grossly misused in its contemporary usage. Wordpress, Joomla, …
- Forcing Cross-Layer Dependencies? You're Doing it Wrong.There are a few things that frustrate me more as a web developer than finding cross-layer coupling in …