Sep 30

New Project: The Zombie Run

Take a 5k add some zombies, some fear and some fun and you get The Zombie Run. I was tasked with the job of branding and building a website to really showcase the fear and fun of the run. It turned out to be one the better projects I’ve ever got to work on.

The Zombie Run website started as a simple discussion and turned into an awesome, responsive, branded piece. With the help of Hilary Sedgwick(design and branding) and Bob Depalmo We created a fully responsive ExpressionEngine website that allows the client to alter any data from contact info to faqs and add any event. Everything about this project turned out awesome and the trust the client had in us to deliver something great was next to none!

See it now at TheZombieRun.com

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Sep 14

Twitter + PHP + Arduino + Nerf = Twitter powered Nerf gun…

What happens when you take a Nerf gun and mix in PHP, Twitter, and the Arduino Uno microcontroller? Answer, A Twitter powered Nerf gun that shoots darts in real time of course.


Recently at my real 9-5, Neiman, I’ve was given the opportunity to take a crazy idea and turn it into reality. The Idea, Take a nerf machine gun and power it with Twitter; Tweet to a specific hash tag and fire the gun, simple, yet not.

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Aug 13

GoRoostr.com; Fully Responsive, Fully Awesome

The new GoRoostr.com is what you’d call a “Responsive facelift”. I added a few new bells and whistles along with restructuring the markup within the Skeleton Responsive framework.

GoRoostr.com is a website that provides services for buying working and broken Apple MacBooks. The goals was to revamp their current site and make it fully responsive while offering an awesome experience across all devices. The site is built in CodeIgniter and utilizes the Skeleton responsive framework.

Check out the project: GoRoostr!

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Jun 18

New Project: BeardYear.com

A new personal project called BeardYear. Part photo gallery part blog, this project will track the year long growth of my beard!

A new project from me that’s unlike anything I’ve ever done. It’s not just a web/dev project but one that will affect my personal life. Track the growth of my beard from clean shaven to wooly mammoth over the course of one year.

Check it out now BeardYear.com

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May 15

Introducing Pugstagr.am!

Introducing Pugstagr.am, a project I created to show-off and demo some of the powers of the API and my sincere fondness of pugs!

Recently I wrote two blog posts about the Instagram API which I had been working with. I thought it would be fun to create a site that demonstrated some of the things discussed in my posts and also the simple power of the API.

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Apr 23

Displaying all your Instagram images, ignoring next page and pagination

Sometimes you’d like to know exactly how many images a given Instagram account has since creation. This unfortunately is not an option with the current API and today I’ll discuss a work around.

Recently I had to do some research to see if adding an Instagram feed to an upcoming project would be of any value. Using the API, I wanted to get an idea of how many pictures we’re being geo-tagged at specific locations. Unfortunately, the current Instagram API doesn’t allow for this directly, instead giving you a paginated response.

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Apr 18

Instagram Real-time API with PHP

Instagram is NOT the most well documented API out right now and today I’ll help resolve some of the headaches associated with figuring out the Real-Time API subscriptions while using PHP.

Let me preface this post by saying Instagram’s API documentation IS NOT PHP friendly. There’s also not a huge amount of support out on the web for the Subscriptions API and PHP. I learned this first hand trying to set up a small application/interface.

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