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Changing the Face of Identity in Ecommerce: Conference Audio Recordings

This post includes the audio and slides from three of the past conferences that I have spoken at on the topic of identity in the Ecommerce realm. This includes an exploration of human identity and how open source technology solutions may can be applied.

Programming Social Applications: An Identity Approach (session audio & slides from SXSWi)

On Saturday March 10th, 2012, I gave a book reading session on “Programming Social Applications” at SXSWi. This was a 20 minute book reading session where I went over the core human and social grouping identity that makes up the this book.

New Reddit SDK in PHP

Recently I have pulled an old project from the development graveyard and finish it up. I just pushed out a new SDK wrapper on top of the Reddit SDK, in PHP, to my Github account. Feedback, updates and issues are welcome!

Creating a New Eclipse Toolbar Plugin (Part 2): Customizing the Menu

This second installment of the “Creating a New Eclipse Toolbar Plugin” series goes through how to create a custom dropdown menu, complete with custom icons and handlers.

Building a Single Sign On (SSO) Solution into Two or More Drupal 7.x Sites

This post covers a quick and easy method for adding in a single sign on experience for multiple Drupal 7.x based websites that are sharing the same root domain and are using MySQL to store the database records.

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’

I recently came across an error while installing MySQL on a new mac. I saw that several others around were having a similar problem so I figured that I would just post my quick fix that got me past the problem. What it really just came down to was a simple missing file.

Guides, Papers and APIs – Part 3

As a third installment of the “Guides, Papers and APIs” series, I cover these topics with links to web development and programming resources that I have found around the web over the past few weeks.

Guides, Papers and APIs – Part 2

In the second installment of the “Guides, Papers and APIs” series, we include many different APIs and texts, as well as numerous programming and web development topics to keep you up to date on trending techniques.