Working with and looping through arrays is one of the most useful things you can learn how to do with web applications. Anything from forms, API’s to configuration values, arrays make it easy in working with values. Take look at this simple example that illustrates the basics in working with the $_POST array. Continue reading
Year: 2010
Improve Profitability and Productivity: Why Working More is not the Solution
Most employers want to see their salaried employees work more than 40 hours per week. This is a flawed philosophy because it assumes that more work time equals more output or that putting in more time will equal more profit. This leads me to the following question.
Which employee is more valuable? Continue reading
Why the hell would I want to wait for retirement?
Society has been telling us that we should be saving and working 40+ years so that someday we can “retire”.
Things will probably slow down in some regard when we get older, but there is a general idea that we will stop working and do nothing at that point (which is absurd). Boredom is not a companion that I want to live with on a daily basis when I get to that age. Continue reading
Add Related Posts to WordPress without a Plugin
Over the last month I’ve implemented quite a bit of changes to the site, including adding a section to each post that displays links to related posts. I use WordPress for this website and I thought about looking for a plugin that would do the trick. However, I’ve been trying to cut down how many plugins I use to make it easier to upgrade and I came up with an alternative solution that works great. Continue reading
