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posted February 24th, 2010

One of the most apparent aspects of both my professional and personal life is that I am always learning. As my friends and family can tell you, I constantly have my nose in something and am very eager to share what I just learned. As I have written about what I have learned here, I have realized that I have been holding back on something important: how do I choose what I want to learn next.

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Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

by Simon on July 9th, 2010

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Apache Optimization and NGINX

by John Hoff on June 2nd, 2010

Tom, Two other reasons besides mod_php quickly come to mind on why I use prefork apache--mod_perl and mod_python. The solution of using NGINX as a

Apache Optimization and NGINX

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Wordpress Custom Field Search Plugin

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Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

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Always Learning, Coding Blog

New Language Direction With Erlang

posted March 11th, 2010 by John Hoff

In my two most recent posts, Always Learning and Coders at Work, I talked about my personal and professional need to keep learning. My most recent addition to my development arsenal has been Python. Why I considered learning the language a success, I didn't really feel that it a significant amount of new materials and features. As a result, I have chosen to dive into the functional programming language Erlang.

Tags: Erlang, Python

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Book Review: Coders at Work

posted February 24th, 2010 by John Hoff

The book, Coders at Work was published at a very ideal time for me. I was pretty comfortable with my progress towards learning Python last year, and have been looking around for another language to start tooling around with on my computers. The book seemed like a good opportunity to get a peak into the minds of a select group of coders and see what they might have to say on the matter.