Author Archives for vlucas
July 3, 2016 2:59 am
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I recently sold JSCompress.com – a website that I created, and have owned and operated since 2008. Over the years,... View Article
June 29, 2016 9:21 pm
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While developing the new Job board for Techlahoma (soon to launch), I decided to customize the JSON error response to... View Article
April 14, 2016 2:53 pm
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Transpiling JavaScript on the client is pretty much required for wide browser support, but transpiling JavaScript when running it server-side with... View Article
April 13, 2016 2:45 pm
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After switching back to WordPress from a static blog that did not have any comments, I left comments on out of... View Article
March 30, 2016 9:27 pm
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After a little over 2 years on Middleman, I decided to move my blog back to WordPress. Middleman – and... View Article
December 31, 2015 3:55 pm
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Countism is a mobile app idea that I have been working on and thinking about for a long time. Even... View Article
October 3, 2015 9:32 pm
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Around two months ago, I launched a new website called DevData. It is a website that I wished has existed... View Article
April 17, 2015 9:25 pm
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Well, the rest of the year, anyways. Better late than never, right? Inspired by Justin Jackson and his Build and... View Article
April 14, 2015 3:40 pm
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I just re-launched SoundingBoard as a new blog to help non-technical people learn how to evaluate their app ideas. During... View Article
March 5, 2015 5:19 pm
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After almost exactly one year being fully on my own after shutting down Brightbit, I have decided to stop doing... View Article
November 19, 2014 9:58 pm
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I released a new OpenX REST API Client that works with the newest OpenX v4 REST API. It uses Guzzle... View Article
October 19, 2014 11:25 pm
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If you upgraded to OSX 10.10 Yosemite, and now have a broken homebrew, fear not the homebrew team has already... View Article
September 29, 2014 5:18 pm
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In this increasingly inter-connected world, APIs are becoming more and more important as time goes on. This is especially true... View Article
August 7, 2014 9:09 pm
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NOTE: This post is irrelevant for PHP 5.6+: a new __debugInfo() magic method has made its way into PHP 5.6,... View Article
July 3, 2014 3:52 am
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Sometimes language and platform abstractions bite you. They can seem pretty straightforward and “just like the real thing”, but sometimes... View Article
June 5, 2014 4:38 am
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One thing I find myself doing a lot in javascript files for node.js, or any other CommonJS-based system is typing... View Article
May 30, 2014 7:48 pm
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I was recently part of a project where, upon asking for content for the requried “Frequently Asked Questions” page, I... View Article
May 1, 2014 2:31 am
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Last night, I decided to pull my two iOS and Android apps SEMTab SEO Pro and my very first app,... View Article
March 20, 2014 1:50 pm
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After running Brightbit with Joshua Ogle and Eric Boehs for nearly fours years, it officially came to an end a... View Article
March 8, 2014 11:10 pm
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One of the unexpected surprises that came with upgrading to a new Macbook Pro Retina 15″ from an older MacBook... View Article
March 3, 2014 5:26 pm
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Our first Oklahoma PHP User Group meeting in a few years happened on Thursday, February 20th 2014, thanks to the... View Article
February 8, 2014 7:48 pm
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Want a Platform-as-a-Service setup like Heroku on your own $5/month VPS from DigitalOcean? Look no further than Dokku a set... View Article
January 22, 2014 5:07 pm
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It’s always fun to be a part of a conference’s first year. This year, I was lucky enough to speak... View Article
January 4, 2014 4:57 am
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It’s a whole new year, and I’ve got a whole new blog. This time around, I knew I wanted a... View Article
March 4, 2013 12:00 am
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Valitron is a simple, minimal and elegant stand-alone PHP validation library with NO dependencies. Valitron uses simple, straightforward validation methods... View Article