Most of the web apps you use have a placeholder image for your avatar. If the app is using Gravatar to generate the avatars, you will get the mystery man if no user exists. Applications like Trello take it to the next level by displaying initials of the user if they have no avatar. Today we are going to learn how to generate those using a few lines of clean PHP.
[Read more…] about Generate Perfect Initials using PHP
30-day Firefox Challenge
Everyone seems to be on the Google hate train as of late. What I don’t understand is how many of these so-called “Google haters” still use Google Chrome. Microsoft recently announced that they were moving to Chromium and Opera has already made the switch. This leaves us with a three browser engine market, a dangerous place to be.
[Read more…] about 30-day Firefox Challenge
Yearly Goals and Planning
This past week I have read the yearly recaps of more than a dozen people. They were all the same. Some blow the doors off their goals and some fell well short.
[Read more…] about Yearly Goals and Planning
5 Employees that are Putting Your Business at Risk
Trouble employees do much more damage to a business than great employees do good. Employees are the driving force of your business. If they are motivated and given the right direction, they can move mountains. They can also destroy those mountains, faster then they were ever built up. [Read more…] about 5 Employees that are Putting Your Business at Risk
Why Tumblr’s Content Ban Hurts us All
Tumblr released the bad news to the Internet two weeks ago, in a blog post titled “A better, more positive Tumblr“. Jeff D’Onofrio, the CEO of Tumblr made the announcement that Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th, 2018.
[Read more…] about Why Tumblr’s Content Ban Hurts us AllMy Two Year Outlook
Today I turn 34. I’m ok with this, as I’ve never really been subconscious about my age. I recently read about an exercise in a book, that laid out a different way of setting goals. The idea is to write 500 words of how you want your life to look in 2 years. Then work every day towards making your life fit that scene. I would like to share with you how I want my life to look like in 2 years. I am doing this for my own self-reflection, as well as to deliver accountability to myself. [Read more…] about My Two Year Outlook