Why I Support Brian Oley for Dallas City Council
This is a letter I’m distributing to many of my neighbors: Dear Neighbor, I live near the corner of Elizabeth and McKinney. I just left you a door hanger for Brian Oley, who is running for City Council in our [...]
jQuery Dom Exception: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR (5) in IE9
If you use jQuery and you’re getting these errors in IE9, there’s a good chance you need to upgrade to bgiframe 2.1.2: [php]DOM Exception: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR (5)[/php]
Simple PHP Puzzle
I don’t care for a lot of the questions that I’ve been asked on interviews. Over time, I want to post a number of common, real-life PHP questions that I think would be more accurate at assessing how well someone [...]
Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE), Zend Certification
I became a Zend Certified Engineer in January 2009. At the time, I was more excited that there were under 50 PHP 5 Zend Certified Engineers in Texas than I was to actually be one of them! But I believe [...]
Refugees in Vickery Meadow, Dallas; Bhutanese Refugees in Dallas, Burmese Refugees Lewisville
In April, I met with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) about the tens of thousands of refugees living in Dallas. Here is what I learned: Each year, the President sets a cap on the number of refugees that the US [...]
Content Generation and Search Engine Optimization
[rough draft] I’ve been thinking about content generation lately. Search engines are in the business of finding and organizing information and then presenting the most relevant information they can find to those who are looking for it. Usually when I [...]
Troubleshooting Errors: How many bytes?
Since tracking down a really annoying IE 8 issue last week, I’ve become increasingly observant of the number of bytes involved in the code I’m troubleshooting. For quite some time now (several months), I’ve been getting a number of 404 [...]
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