Author Archives: brad

Latest Endeavor: whoopdwhoop.com

My wife and I have been chugging away on a new endeavor for awhile, and we finally got to a point where we could launch it live. In short, it’s a currency free, creative marketplace, and it’s called whoopdwhoop.com It gives “artisans”, or crafty people, a place to list their creations, and hopefully, a community [...]

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?: PHP Coalesce

I’ve often been a fan of Javascript’s way of using the logical OR operator as a coalescing operator, or way to default values. It’s a very handy operator for shortening ternary expressions. I just found out in PHP 5.3 they added an operator to do just that. ?: That’s all, carry on. http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.0

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YUI => jQuery?

Recently a question was posted on Quora, “How could YUI3 improve its image compared to jQuery, MooTools, etc.?“. John Resig, of jQuery fame, gave a great answer on his thoughts to the question. Nicholas Zakas responds with another great explanation of why he doesn’t think the comparison is needed. Both have great points, and are [...]

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Yahoo! A New Adventure

My family and I are getting ready for a new adventure in our lives. We’ll be moving to Denver where I’m super excited to go work for Yahoo! and the Associated Content team. Getting a chance to work for Yahoo, and live and work in the Denver area is the perfect culmination of opportunity and [...]

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YUI 2.8 Learning the Library book review

I’ve had a chance to read through the latest book on YUI, titled YUI 2.8 Learning the Library. The book was written by Daniel Barreiro and Dan Wellman, and was published by Packt Publishing. For the impatient that don’t want to read the whole review, and want to get right to the goods, here they [...]

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