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As the first full-time engineering employee, my core functions were to organize, scale, and manage an engineering department, while also serving as a high-functioning IC. In my time at Kittyhawk, I accomplished that and more, including working extensively with the FAA, leading the product vision and roadmap, and redesigning our applications to fit the enterprise sector. Below are just a few select…
Levers takes your aggregated digital marketing data and delivers a complete reporting and forecasting solution in a beautiful, easy to use interface. Built for the digital marketer, the Levers data explorer is your solution for high-level analysis and forecasting. Borrowing the best features from the analytics products you use every day with nearly unlimited scalability, Levers makes it easy to…
Stitch Labs is a leading inventory management system for rapidly growing eCommerce retailers. Stitch Labs empowers retailers to control their operations through enhanced inventory visibility and accuracy, alongside streamlined workflows to meet the most complex and demanding operational challenges. Stitch Labs works with major eCommerce and fulfillment providers to offer a seamless solution. Major…
Vuurr specializes in digital marketing campaigns and custom application development for clients ranging from startups & small businesses to $10+ billion enterprises. Custom (PHP) Development Projects: Customer loyalty and customer marketing solution for the tire and service industry. Solution for an international training company empowering users to discover & register for certification-specific…
Lists of Top X or Best Y can very widely from person to person, but being the winner of the 1994 Nintendo Championship (PowerFest 94) in the 18+ category should give some klout right?! Below, Mike Iarossi outlines his top games from the past decade. Mike Iarossi - Nintento PowerFest '94 Champion 1. Dark Souls (2011) 2000+ hours In 2009 From Software released Demon’s Souls, the first in the…
Wildsnake Cartridge If you thought Tetris was fun, get ready for Tetris with snakes! Yeah, actual Snakes; Wild Snakes. Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris, thought it would be a good idea to add snakes to the classic game. To be honest, when I started playing this game I thought it was just a crappy rip off of Tetris, but NOPE the creator of Tetris himself thought this was a good idea……
SimCity Cartridge How does a city work? Why does building a Police Station not reduce crime some times? Will you get elected as Mayor of your own town next year? Find out in this addicting game as you build for hours. First Impressions The push of a power switch and the sweet sweet sound of 16-bit music fills the air. As the music plays, I am starting to get excited about what is about to…
A few weekends ago, I flew into Arizona to attend the Game On Retro Expo with some old friends. Among this group was Dorion Whitlock (1994 Nintendo PowerFest finalist and old roommate) and Mike Iarossi (1994 Nintendo PowerFest first place winner). To say the least, I forgot how much fun it is playing video games with your friends. The main draw for the Game On Retro Expo was the 1994 PowerFest…
When looking for a more stable hosting solution for my Magic: The Gathering Api , I stumbled across Google’s App Engine. If you have not read up on this solution, I would recommend it. To get Laravel’s Lumen running correctly on Google App Engine, there are a few questions that we need to answer. Lets take these one at a time. How does the application know it is running on Google App…
Pros and Cons There are lots of pros and cons when it comes to WordPress vs Jekyll. After looking through this list you might decide that Jekyll is not for you, and that is fine. Just remember that every tool is used for different tasks and neither WordPress nor Jekyll can be declared “better” as they are both good in different situations. Jekyll Pros Speed : No PHP is called or needs…
The ability for PHP programs to execute asynchronous functions… Yeah, I said it and now it exists. By coding in Facebook’s new Hack Language, using your CPU’s cycles correctly has never been so easy. Let’s delve into this new language head first! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 /** * This function calls async functions */ function main () : void { echo '[main] Calling Async…
Overview This last week I was lucky enough to step onto Facebook’s campus for their first ever Hack Developer Day. Throughout the day developers and project managers gave talks about HHVM and Hack. From overviews to the nitty gritty details, each talk brought more insight into why this language was created. Below are a few of the talks that I thought were the best of the bunch. Hack Language…
You just learned how to create a simple WordPress plugin, and now you hear people talking about how WordPress is becoming more object-oriented. What does that mean? Lets take a step back and start with the basics. Most simple WordPress plugins are written using procedural programming. This means that your code excited from top to bottom; calling functions and setting variables along the way. A…
Have you ever needed to convert a 2 dimensional array into a CSV then force a download? Well, I have, and here is how I did it: Array Every internal array must have the same keys. These keys may be set to null, but the key must exist. Below is a sample array that we can work with through this example. [ [ 'title' => 'How to be Good at Life' , 'author' => '@GRTaylor2' , 'url' =>…
For the past year, every Wednesday night at about 6:00 p.m. work stops! Since I have been working for Levers there has been a weekly hack night. To put it simply: “Stop your real work and work on something fun!”" There have been some winning hack night projects and some losing ones. Let’s take a look: Magic: The Gathering API : (winning) Author: Michael Curry Link:…
A few months ago, I calculated the top Magic: The Gathering cards in the games modern format [LINK_BROKEN]. This was accomplished using pure PHP. In total it took about 30 minutes to calculate. With a 30 minute runtime, I wanted to find a faster way to crunch the numbers. What better way than to use C. As I did not want to spend the time rewriting code if it did not make a difference, I thought I…
UPDATE: Migrated from a post I wrote when working on leve.rs The last post I wrote provided examples of different ways to use array manipulation in PHP Link . An amazing number of people replied with a compelling argument, saying it’s better to use a foreach statement instead of the array_walk function. As all comments I receive from my articles, I thought hard on the idea. What is the fastest way…
UPDATE: Migrated from a post I wrote when working on leve.rs More often than not, when PHP developers debug others’ code, the majority of each method is taken up by array manipulations. Spending this much time on array manipulations is a huge hassle when trying to understand any given method. In order to speed up the debugging process, it’s important to start writing array manipulations the…
“The plumber always has plumbing problems at home.” … “Carpenters buy their furniture at IKEA.” … “The developers never has a good website”… For years I did not only “not have a good website”, but I didn’t have a website at all. finally, I decided to make something. It may not be the prettiest thing in the world, but…