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Welcome, Taste of Champaign Visitors!
Welcome! If you've visiting here after meeting me at the Taste of Champaign-Urbana festival this weekend, I just wanted to let you know that you're in the right spot. Feel free to check out the rest of my site, and if you ever have a web-related question, I hope that you'll keep my card and drop me a line. As I look out my window this morning, I see that it's raining again and my forecast tells me that it could some more today. Hopefully that doesn't ruin the final day of the festival for you. I look forward to hearing from you!
Blogging is Hard
So, I've learned, over the last few weeks, a new respect for professional bloggers. Blogging is hard. If nothing else, it's somewhat difficult to get the creative juices flowing for this blog at times, but I'm hoping to do better in June. It's my first month; hopefully, even the blogging greats out there were slow off the starting block.
I ran into a great post from PHP::Impact that offered up 30 Useful PHP Classes and Components that they've encountered. I was familiar with a number of them, but a new one stood out: the PHP Universal Feed Generator.
I'm somewhat ashamed to say that I've always re-coded feeds from scratch or relied on the internals of third-party blogging software to handle feed generation for me. However, after looking at the information on the PHP Universal Feed Generator, I'm excited to use it for upcoming projects. Looks like I know what I'm tweaking when I work on this site over the weekend!
Claiming My Blog
This post serves no purpose other than to "claim" my blog at Technorati. Seems like a cool thing to do as it could generate some traffic here as I become a more prolific blogger. According to their instructions all I have to do is add the following link to my blog...
... and then return to their site to click a button.
See you next time!
Welcome!
First Post!
Welcome to the Magic Hat Development blog. This is an irregular blog that I'll write, probably with two or three articles per week, where I hope to discuss my own coding techniques and solutions to interesting problems that I encounter during the course of my work. I won't be divulging any trade secrets or business practices of my clients, obviously, but I hope this blog creates a way for my thoughts and ideas to be shared with the rest of the world.
I also intend to intersperse the blog with posts about other web related news and opinion pieces wherein I'll reflect on web trends, standards, coding practices, etc. Hopefully, this will all be of use to you as you read it and, if not, well, that's okay too.
I already have about four posts in my backlog, so look for the first real article in a day or so. Until then, thanks for stopping by.
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Poster: David Kees
Posted: 4/28/2008 at 2:03pm
