Aaron Collegeman is a husband, a father, and he creates software.
Here you will find his musings and updates on his many projects.

The latest from my brain:

Pull your Google Buzz feed with PHP

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Not as fresh, but twice as refined:

For testing, dynamically create default values for long forms

Sometimes Web forms are long. And the longer the form, the more frequently we are plagued by details like field name duplication and making sure the field values show up in the database record or an e-mail. Here's a solution in JavaScript. Read more »

Installing Java 6 and Tomcat 6 on MediaTemple Virtual Dedicated Server (Linux)

When you gotta develop it with Java or Grails, you gotta have Tomcat. I'll talk you through it: step by step. Read more »

Working around GORM, paginating one-to-many relationships with SimpleJdbcDaoSupport (Part 1)

Part 1 of a two-part series in which I try to make sense of something called ORM and the way it totally screws up pagination. Read more »

CustomInk: a great T-shirt printing experience

One more reason to like Seth Godin: he recommends great products. Read more »

Decoding the GPL: can this be commercial?

To open source or not to open source: that is the question. Read more »

WP-CI: a CodeIgniter-based plug-in framework for WordPress

There's got to be a way to make WordPress plug-in development easier and more consistent. I know: I'll add an MVC framework... somehow. Read more »

Crowdsourcing with crowdSPRING

Crowdsourcing seems to be a great way to get a new logo designed, but is it the way of the future? Read more »

Tomorrow is the big day: B-Day

Wifey and I can scarcely contain ourselves. So while we wait for 7:30 AM to get here, we took a short trip through memory lane and came up with this video of baby gyrations. Read more »

Braggin’ on my new theme

I'm not a designer. So when I have the opportunity to brag about something I designed, I try to take advantage. Read more »

Replace commenting in your Wordpress blog with Facebook Comments

@RealNerd showed me how.  And now you can benefit from our collaboration. Enjoy. Read more »

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