I am off work today. It's a vacation day/sick day/personal day thing.

I had an appointment at 8:00 this morning.

With the Dentist of Doom.

Last winter, he extracted three of my wisdom teeth, but I was still holding on to the fourth; clinging in desperation to that last little piece of dental proof of adulthood, that last fragment of...

Now that I have a bit of downtime at work, I've opted to use said time to participate in some of the 52 Weeks of Code challenges I've missed out on in the last few months. First up: Week 22 - the PHP challenge.

In my whopping hour of free time this morning, I whipped up a little generator to determine if any given user may or may not be...

Last Thursday marked the third and final two-hour session of my continuing education course on online business promotion.

I had worked up three case studies - using actual, big-money clients from my days coding in the corporate world - one focusing on an extreme...

Last Thursday - as mentioned in my last post - I spent my morning teaching a class. When I returned to my office, I found 12 missed phone calls, 8 voicemails, 24 emails and 3 Post-it notes. Our web forms were under attack. The Admissions Office and Career Services Office had been hit hard with over 1,000 emails each overnight.

The emails were...

My project for Week 3 of the 52 Weeks of Code Challenge - a simple Twitter status update application.

The interface:
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The main code:

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