Posted from: South Carolina

You know when someone you’ve been badmouthing pays you a compliment, and you’re suddenly left with a choice of being disingenuously nice in return or having to run back up to that moral highground you should have parked your butt on in the first place? Since Brandstack.com, not my favorite site in the universe, just promoted a couple of my works, I’m making up a third option, which is “blog about the whole thing at length then forget about it”.  

My tutorials have ridden off into the sunset. They’re swimming with the fishies. Somewhere in Asia, my tutorials are canoodling with courtesans. That is to say, though Google’s going to dump me and my readers are going to be disappointed, I’ve decided to take the tutorial section off this site.  

Posted from: South Carolina

Supporter of narrative causality that I am, I find it soothingly romantic to imagine that Hell is a tailor-made experience. Covet enough of your neighbor’s Ikea bookshelves, and when you die, the cosmos will reach into the remains of your consciousness, pluck out your greatest fear, and bam, you’re locked in a closet with Tom Cruise for all eternity.
 

When the code you’re handed is kind of shitty, roll it into a ball that’s 250 times heavier than your body weight and bury it.

Posted from: South Carolina

With a client’s new Drupal-based project specs sitting in my inbox, I did a bucket of research and found an awesome new module that made my toes all tingly. The project deposit burning a hole in my hot little fist, I called the module developers, ready to do anything this side of adultery to buy a copy. And then More Technical Guy answered.

Me: Hi! I’d really love to buy your new Drupal module. I was wondering if you guys do custom scripting? Could you integrate a checkout of some kind? What would be a ballpark quote for that?

Him: Uh…. yeah, we talked about it, but that would be a lot of work.