This was one of the cooler features I implemented in my mashup codebase. Alas Google went and changed YouTube’s API. I quickly tried to fix it, but when I could not and no one on Stack Overflow could help the problem got set aside while I focussed on passing all three CFA® exams…

I’m a collector. I’m not a hoarder because I display my collections. One of the things I’ve steadily collected over the last 15 or 20 years is quotations. Not “quotes”, quotes is a verb…

I never set out to build a miniature painting news aggregator, but I did build and maintain one for many years. I had time to do it because too often I was #unemployed. I was just trying to help a fellow blogger out with a problem they were having. You know me, always helping other people, when I should be helping myself…

Once again it took way longer than I would have liked. Once again the common denominators are PHP and people who say look, here is my code, it does this, it just works, use it. Then when you write them informing them it doesn’t work they say “Oh I wrote that two years ago, I don’t feel like maintaining it anymore.”

As my latest period of unemployment continues to lengthen I’ve worked on an ever larger collection of PHP code that I’ve written and used to make several web mashups…