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I had a wonderful coaching session the other day with Carol Monda.

If you don’t know her work, scroll through her audiobook credits, choose one, and listen… They are all great.

Carol has an amazing voice and uncanny acting instincts. I was honored to have some one-on-one time ( Read more... )

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Sometimes, blogging can seem to get in the way of creativity.

Tearing one’s self away from substantial projects long enough to formulate a valuable posting can feel like a creative disservice. This concept probably seems “odd”, but should it?

After all, if the purpose of ( Read more... )

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“One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.”
- The First Doctor

It has been four years since I finished writing my last ( Read more... )

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Many months have passed since my last post, and a lot has happened.

And, by now, you have probably noticed one big change - this site is not running gasp or drupal (or wordpress for that matter).

I was playing around with gasp, in hopes of modifying it to work in a ( Read more... )

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Recently, I got an email from Dries Buytaert (CTO of Acquia) that I’d like to share with you.

Hello stevenjaycohen,

recently Mollom has been feeling kind of lonely. We noticed that your site http://stevenjaycohen. ( Read more... )

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Over the last few weeks, I have completely rebuilt GaSP (both the front and back ends).


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After a bit of a refactoring frenzy of late, GaSP can now intelligently reformat its content for mobile, tablet, and desktop computers. I big thank you goes out to the people behind PHP Mobile Detect for helping to make it this easy to implement.

Making GaSP mobile-aware ( Read more... )

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After a short stint of a few months with Drupal, you may have noticed that, once again, this site is running GaSP.

Drupal is wonderfully powerful but was “getting in the way” instead of fascilitating creative expression.

So, I have resurrected the GaSP project. I am still ( Read more... )

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I work in Eclipse nearly every day, and I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have needed to compress a folder or project for one reason or another. Since tools like Zip and Tar are part of OSX, it is pretty easy to configure Eclipse to package the files for me.


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One of Google Web Toolkit‘s greatest strengths, and also one of it’s greatest weaknesses, are the Web Developer plugins for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Explorer. During development, these plugins allow you to preview your changes without needing to stop and compile. When it ( Read more... )