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Thoughts on my twenties, turning 30, loving life, and looking forward to another amazing decade.

A software engineer's perspective on Michael Hyatt's book, Platform - Get Noticed In A Noisy World.

WordPress converts the apostrophe literal into the Right Single Quotation Mark entity code. This subtle issue can cause confusion, this post clears it up.

We recently upgraded the Sabramedia Newsroom jQuery library from 1.4.2 to 1.4.4. We noticed subtle errors happening with input related markup. This short tutorial shows how I fixed it.

Lessons I learned, as a software engineer, from The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick.

This jQuery and Google Maps V3 tutorial shows how to add a 1,000 markers to a Google map efficiently without killing the map. Significant performance improvement using the Google map OverlayView to hundreds to thousands of markers.

What does Facebook's Open Graph protocol mean for the ever growing social Internet? My initial thoughts and a quick Facebook "Like" button plugin tutorial.

This tutorial shows you a pattern for using Ajax while still being search engine friendly. Search engines don't use JavaScript when indexing a website. Web developers who want the speed and effect of Ajax can still have a SEO site.

Picking the right tool is important. Here is a list of tools I use regularly that can help improve your productivity.

I chose to stop being good at many things, and decided to be great at a few things. It was not easy at first, as a matter of fact it took some time. If there are web developers out there who can relate, then here is how I found my focus.

After many years without a personal website, I finally have one. I am still busy working a few things out on this site, but be sure and check back. I have lots of cool things planned.