By Andrew Shell on April 15, 2009
Today I was playing around with the Online Commercial Intention tool on Microsoft’s adCenter Labs. Just for fun I typed in a couple PHP content management systems I’ve used to see how they rank and came across some interesting results. If you haven’t used the OCI tool before, it gives you a ranking for how [...]
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By Andrew Shell on March 5, 2009
I was e-mailing a friend the other day talking about PHP frameworks. He’s been writing one for himself and I’ve written many many frameworks and CMSs through the years. I’ve also looked at a lot of existing frameworks out there like Zend, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Solar, Symfony and I’ve come to a conclusion. There are a [...]
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By Andrew Shell on January 29, 2009
I was recently tagged in one of those chain letter things on facebook by my friend Blake Hall. I’m supposed to post 25 random things about myself and then tag 25 other people. Well, I’m not tagging other people but I thought it would be fun to post.
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By Andrew Shell on January 27, 2009
So it seems this post falls exactly one month from my New Years Resolutions post. I thought I’d regale you with some updates. Today I signed up for the Beginning Rock Climbing course at Planet Granite. I’m pretty impressed with what I’ve seen of the place so far. I start my first of 4 weekly [...]
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By Andrew Shell on January 11, 2009
So I promised folks pictures a while ago and hadn’t gotten around to it. Mostly because I was waiting until I got everything put away and cleaned up. But you know me, I tend to procrastinate. So I figured if I waited until I got things put away the pictures would never be taken. So [...]
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By Andrew Shell on December 27, 2008
I’m not really one who does the yearly resolutions and this year is no different. Lately I’ve been in the midst of a lot of self reflection. I guess moving across the country and starting a new life does that to a guy. So I don’t really think of the following “resolutions” as anything more [...]
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By Andrew Shell on December 3, 2008
Since April 2008 I’ve been dieting and exercising, mostly dieting. I weighed more then I ever had before at a whopping 265 lbs. Not an ideal situation. I decided to attempt to lose weight, not really sure how I was going to do it. I started out with the South Beach Diet which got me [...]
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By Andrew Shell on November 11, 2008
So I’ve been a resident of California for just over three weeks now and things are going well. I have most of my IKEA furniture assembled and most of my boxes unpacked. I’ve been kind of lazy with things lately but that’s OK. PBwiki is really great. Everyone I work with has been super good [...]
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By Andrew Shell on October 14, 2008
Friday was my last day at Netconcepts. It wasn’t very emotional because this has been building up for about a month now. My first phone interview with PBwiki was on September 5th, I was in CA interviewing in person September 19th and I put in my notice on September 24th. I’ve had a chance to [...]
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By Andrew Shell on September 25, 2008
So after 27 years in southern WI, I’m moving to California. I’ve just accepted a position with http://www.pbwiki.com as a junior developer. I start there on October 20th, so it will be a crazy couple of weeks preparing to move. I’ve wanted to move to the bay area for quite some time, and this was [...]
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I'm Andrew Shell. I'm a PHP developer in Madison, WI. Currently I'm working for Brazen Careerist and occasionally I do freelance work.