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Since moving to Camarillo for college in August, I missed both SHDH20 and SHDH21 due to the increased distance between the Bay Area and where I live. However, since I’m back in San Luis Obispo for winter break, I was able to attend SHDH22. Instead of spending my time socializing and learning, I […]

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I’m sure like most people, I started learning Rails by reading about….Rails. It would seem logical to learn Rails by reading about Rails, right? I think a better way of learning about Rails is to first master Ruby and THEN learn the Rails framework for Ruby. This approach has helped me debug […]

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I had some free time today, so I decided to start on a proof-of-concept for my OpenID + Microformats idea. Holy $^#@ am I rusty with PHP. It’s now been about a year since I last done any sort of programming with it and I find myself having to reference the books I […]

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UPDATE: After an email discussion with Adam Darowski, I revised this post to make it a bit more user-friendly.
I think I might be going about this idea of consolidating your online identity with the OpenID simple registration extension and microformats wrong. I found this microformat library for PHP; It works by by retrieving […]

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This past weekend I experienced my first Super Happy Dev-House convention/get together. I must say that never before have I met so many people that put me to shame. With this said however, I have learned more about online technologies from this than I have from any online tutorial or book. […]

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