by Josh | Feb 15, 2018 | Blog, Conferences, Technology
This year at CES, my Dad and I covered all 3 halls on the last day of the show (Friday). Luckily we didn’t go earlier in the week when they had a blackout. The show was filled with all the usual suspects like Intel, Nvidia, Kodak, Samsung, Sony, and more. The...
by Josh | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog, Crypto, Investment, Technology
Cryptocurrencies in freefall February 2018 Just last week I was talking to someone so deep into the crypto that they didn’t see this collapse happening. I straight up told them it was about to happen. I hate to say I called it but me along with alot of others...
by Josh | Jan 25, 2018 | Blog, Community, PHP, Technology
ZendCon 2017 has come and gone. I know it was months ago at the time of writing this but.. Better late then never! It was an amazing event to be able to speak at and attend. With how many days the conference is, it really almost is almost like a vacation haha....
by Josh | Jan 25, 2018 | Devices, How To's
I use my iPhone X for all my daily stuff but these LCDs have got to be doing some damage to your eyes overtime… Long term reading should really be done on an e-ink device since it doesn’t require a backlight and all that. I purchased a 3rd Generation...
by Josh | Jan 21, 2018 | Blog, Software Architecture, Technology
Microservices are a great way to build applications at scale (or at least preparing for scale). There a multitude of reasons why this approach is smart but I’ve also seen it overly abused. At a previous employer, we had a grand vision for a microservice based...
by Josh | Jul 21, 2017 | How To's, SEO
Backlinking is important to ranking well on search engines. Quality of the referring site is very detrimental to the “weight” of the link back to your site or page. There are however bad SEO practices out there where people blanket post their site all...
by Josh | Jul 20, 2017 | CI/CD, Jenkins, Technology
I recently read an article about someone bashing Jenkins. I’ll refrain from backlinking the article cause it isn’t worth your time to read. The article read as if a team member (not a lead) was complaining about Jenkins and the process/pipeline that was...
by Josh | Jul 18, 2017 | Charting, Quick Tips
If you are looking for a good tool to create charts & diagrams for anything pretty much. Lucid Charts is an amazing freemium tool that allows you to make charts for AWS infrastructure, workflow diagrams, and much more. You can use up to 100 elements for free per...
by Josh | Jul 17, 2017 | Quick Tips, Wordpress
If you have a wordpress site you are moving and the domain name is changing, you gotta use the following WP CLI commands to fix your database entries. Use the wp cli command and not some sql replace as there are serialized values in the database. You can find my...
by Josh | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog, Community, Newbies
Get Involved with the PHP Community! One of the biggest things I hear from developers is how to get their name out there and keeps tabs on whats happening in the PHP space. The best advice I can give is to get on twitter and start following the key people that...
