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“47% of users on the web expect websites to load in two seconds or less.” Two seconds may not seem like a hard feat to accomplish, but some tasks can really slow an application down, such as sending email(s). One way to get around this is to defer the task...

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My first full day in India without any flights, and a very very comfortable bed. Due to writing the yesterdays blog post, I didn’t get a full eight hours of sleep, so this time I decided to be smart and started to write this before we leave for dinner. Today...

As you may know I currently work for Perk.com, which has offices in Austin, Texas and Bengaluru, India (Bangalore), and I was given the opportunity to fly out to Bangalore to see our offices in India. While I’ve been to Mexico and the Grand Cayman Islands when I was younger,...

While working on API’s I like to user various tools to test endpoints, and in the past I would use the Google Chrome extension POSTman, which I would highly recommend. Recently though I have started using the Map application Paw, which despite costing money, is well worth the cost. One...

During the Laravel Austin meetup this month, I gave a talk over the repository and decorator pattern, along with a demonstration on how they are useful. First off the repository and decorator pattern is not an official pattern, just the combination of using repositories with the decorator pattern, but “Repository...

I have never considered myself to be that great of a writer, but after reading articles from Chris Fidao and Phil Sturgeon, I decided I would revamp my personal site and try my hand at writing with my own blog. Most of my articles will be about my experiences with...