Jason McCreary

For years I searched for a PHP User Group in Louisville.

A look back on 4 years of developing, managing, and marketing PocketBracket - a March Madness app for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone devices.

Step by step instructions for installing and configuring AWStats on Amazon EC2, as well as a script that automatically configures and updates sites for AWStats.

A script that hashes password for existing user records when using CakePHP Auth.

After recently sharing my Netflix account with my parents, I noticed a missing feature I believe is common in shared systems: User Profiles.

This post covers installing, configuring, and deploying (Heroku) I/O Docs - a live interactive documentation system for RESTful web APIs developed with node.js and redis.

A rant after encountering unexpected sort order when using minYear and maxYear attributes to control options in an drop down.

An article about our first Tough Mudder - the Tough Mudder Indiana at Badlands Off Road Park in late November 2011.

After scouring the web for days, this post aims to provide concise, central instructions for installing Node.js, npm, and redis on Mac OS X.

In two weeks I, as part of team #tigerblood, will accept the Tough Mudder Challenge - a 21 obstacle, 12 miles challenge course.

PHPMyAdmin 3.4 came with many UI changes.

I came across some interesting behavior with CakePHP's Auth Component.

A follow up post from my talk on Configuring WordCamp for Multiple Environments at WordCamp Louisville 2011.

I'll be speaking at the 2011 WordCamp Louisville this Saturday, October 1st.

I've taken an interested in performance lately and heard about siege.

A follow up post about my talk on Configuring WordPress for Multiple Environments at WordCamp Chicago.

A quick post on outputting the proper markup for guidance text using CakePHP's Form Helper.

Sharing my *moment* with WordPress and its dreaded "Error establishing a database connection" after updating the database.

I needed to perform conditional data validation in CakePHP for a project recently.

My CakePHP project fell down a rabbit hole earlier after creating a custom app_controller and app_model from something that should have been a no-brainer.

Some thoughts after a week with the new Apple TV and signing up for Netflix.

A rant on the recent competition between Facebook Places and Foursquare as it relates to intellectual property and the technical industry.

The process by which energy transfers between electrical devices and us.

A rant that revisits the most important and unfortunately most forgotten component of problem solving - root cause analysis.

For this year's 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament I updated PocketBracket with a new UI and several user requested features.

I constantly see headlines for articles that just whine about the lack of Flash support on the iPhone OS.

After an awkward elevator ride at the end of an already long day, I established an elevator etiquette.

A reflection on the routines I believe make me a good developer and look for in developers around me.

Some quick guidelines on how to keep your everyday work meetings from being a waste of time.

A description of my recent iPhone App - LastPlayed.

Today I wrote my last IE6 hack, to overcome a common CSS bug, and I say good riddance to this nearly decade old browser.

As I didn't find a good DIY guide after a few Google searches, I wrote this post after installing a new trampoline on my 18' Hobie Cat.

An article about the process of creating my first iPhone Application - PocketBracket: March Madness.

A JavaScript tab solution with a nice Scriptaculous Effect that uses semantic markup, CSS, and degrades gracefully.

So there are several accordion solutions out there.

A rant on what diversity, particularly in the development community, costs in respect to advancement.

A Cookie class in JavaScript, using Prototype, allowing multiple data objects to be stored in a single Cookie.

A specification for developing a functional CSS Organization and Minification tool that can be used to manage CSS files.

If you didn't guess from the title, this is my first article.

An explanation on why I never adopted ColdFusion.