Blog & Tutorials
Explore my latest Tech Blogs, and Travel Photo Galleries. A mix of work and play here; though down the road I will divide these a bit! To Learn more about the Projects and things I have worked on please visit the skills explorer on the homepage!
Tutorials
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Building a Seamless WordPress AI Dev Workflow with Local + Claude Code
I’ve been deep in the AI-assisted development world lately, and Claude Code has completely transformed how I build. After splurging on the Max plan ($100/month), I’ve…
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Making JavaScript Loops Simpler: A Map & Join Tutorial with JSON – Part 1
If you’ve ever wondered how to go from a traditional for loop to a more modern, elegant approach in JavaScript, this short video tutorial is for…
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An Introduction to REST APIs and fetching data from Yelp Part 1
Note: This is part of a tutorial series. I am currently working to separate tutorials out to their own section, but for now just posting in…
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Synced Patterns in WordPress with Overrides and Unsupported Blocks
One of the exciting features of WordPress is the ability to create synced patterns, allowing you to reuse design blocks across your site while maintaining consistency.…
Tech Blog
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Good Enough Engineering: Why Perfect Code Never Ships
I almost fell into the perfectionism trap again last week. After launching an advertising portal for a client, I found myself staring at code that wasn’t…
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Creating an AI-Driven Portfolio Builder
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From Code to Community (Video)
Checkout my recent talk at RIT, I will share my experiences of transforming a typical group project that was done with a made-up client / topic…
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Come to my HTML / CSS Workshop at RIT hosted by WIC
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FeedMasher Project Finally Moving to Opensource
I am in the process of moving FeedMasher a web aggregation framework I have worked on for several years to open source.
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Planning Your Site: Wireframes, Mockups, and Prototypes Explained
⚠️ Note: This video was originally recorded for a previous course Web and Mobile I – ISTE 140 and may reference specific projects or due dates…
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A Personal Portfolio Page and Blog on The Open Web
I recently stumbled upon a portfolio-style website that I liked, belonging to Dries Buytaert founder and lead of Drupal. I specifically like the About me section and think I am…
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Moving my site to Drupal?
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Usability Testing of The First Niagara Website
I haven’t included much of my MS work on my website but wanted to share on my blog one I was really proud of as we…
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Eye Tracking 101
Eye tracking sounds very elegant when one talks about studying a sites overall usability. However I found that it is very challenging to conduct. Part of…
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(Archive) Traveling Lite: Highedweb Milwaukee 09
This year I was fortunate enough to attend the “Higher Education Web Professionals” conference (HighEdWeb for short) in Milwaukee WI. I say fortunate because we all…
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(Archive) JFusion Elgg Plugin
Recently I have been working with the JFusion team on an Elgg integration plugin, and happy to hear a new version has just been released with the Elgg…
Skills Explorer
To Learn more about the Projects and things I have worked on please visit the skills explorer on the homepage!