http://blog.joshschumacher.com The biggest and the best in the Northwest Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:05:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Important: This presentation was created in December of 2006, the information most likely is out of date. I am posting this in response to the demand from slideshare. During my senior year at Western Washington University, for a final project in my Management 495 class, I did group presentation, performing ... http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2008/06/03/strategic-analysis-google-presentation/ During the process of designing our API at Treemo, one of the first major design implementation hurdles we had to overcome was how to standardize a way to define what data in an object was "exportable" and can later be transformed into XML. The solution that I came up ... http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2008/04/23/standardizing-a-way-to-represent-an-object-in-php/ For the majority of my life, my dad worked for a public radio station in Spokane, KPBX, so I've always had an affinity for public radio. Since moving to the Seattle area and spending a lot of time in my car commuting to and from work (usually about 35 ... http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2007/08/03/i-love-public-radio-in-seattle/ I was enlightened the day I discovered array_filter. You may find yourself with an array of values and you want to delete some of those values from the array. There is no 'delete element from array' function built into php but you can use an even more powerful ... http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2007/03/22/php-delete-selected-items-from-an-array/ When developing a site, I visit it a lot - OK Josh, that was an obvious. Point is, I was tired of tracking my visits to sites that I maintain. I really care about tracking significant users and how they navigate the site and what pages they find ... http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2007/03/16/howto-not-track-developer-hits-in-analytics/ I am impressed. Facebook announced their long awaited iPhoto exporter today. What does this mean? I can finally quickly load my pictures that I already store in iPhoto into Facebook pain free. I have been waiting for this for months, I was excited when the mentioned this ... http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2007/03/15/facebook-meet-iphoto-iphoto-meet-facebook/ Last week, I decided it was time to freshen things up on my portfolio site. This was a great chance for me to test my css powers and modify the presentation of my semantic XHTML without changing the markup (well very minimally changing the markup - I modified some ... http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2007/03/12/its-a-redesign-joshschumachercom/ I've decided that manipulating dates client side is a mess. I've been working on a multi-user php calendar for the past few months. One of the features I'm most proud of is an availability chart similar to a feature outlook has so you can schedule a meeting with ... http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2007/03/02/playing-well-together-prototype-js-and-php/ I am graduating from Western Washington University this March - just over a month from now. It's an exiting time, classes are winding down, the job hunt is on and we're looking for a place to live in the Seattle area. My girlfriend Megan is going to be ... http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2007/02/20/transitions/