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My name is AJ, and I'm a web developer and software engineer out of Southern California.
three weeks ago
From my Amazon review of an amazing book on a crappy technology.
three months ago
Logins are annoying. We live in a time where a single button click determines some websites' entire monetary worth (CTR). It's a pain to make users jump through hoops, requiring this terribly awkward signup, validate email, and finally login process. I just don't want to make people do it anymore.
four months ago
While learning Pylons, I found myself digging into the documentation of a few different tools that come packaged with it. FormEncode has so far been the most intriguing. I ended up digging into the code, and found a hidden gem. I've also got a few improvement ideas to toss around, in the form of oh-so-tender beef.
four months ago
Scale7x = awesome. Mindblowing. Exhausting. More to come on that in a few days. For tonight, a quick story about how my wife and I met one of our heroes, and made complete jerks of ourselves.
four months ago
I'm applying to go back to school to get another degree, and I found myself needing to fill out a lot of PDF Forms. That's evidently a difficult task on Linux. I couldn't find any simple ways to do it, anyhow. So my options were either A) print out the forms and submit my chicken scratch handwriting, or B) hack together a solution for myself. Enter GhostScript and Inkscape.
five months ago
For all you working-class heroes out there: a tool to quickly calculate an annual income and play with the numbers. Written entirely in jQuery, and as always, free for the taking.
eight months ago
A selection of CakePHP goodies I've written over the past few months. Components, Behaviors, Controllers, and a bit more.