Category Archives: syndicated

Making Campfire Work for Me (and More Like IRC)

One of the companies I work with has decided to use the 37signals line of products for internal project management and communication (which I think is great BTW). This means that I sit in a Campfire chat room for working hours of my day, along with a handful of other developers. I started to run into a problem, though, when I didn’t need to be talking with others.

Negative Word Matching with Regular Expressions

Today on the #codeigniter IRC channel someone asked about how to match a string that didn’t start with a specific word using a regex. I quickly threw out that, off the top of my head, /^(abc){0}/ should work. Well, surprisingly, it didn’t. Turns out negatively matching words with regular expressions is a little more difficult. [...]

Microformats talk @ barcamporlando2008

I gave a talk about Microformats at BarCampOrlando this year. Overall things went OK, however I’d like to see a lot of improvement in my presentations over the next few.

First things first:
microformats talk slides

In my talk I covered some reason why it would be wise to start implementing microformats across the gamut of [...]

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