Patrick Coombe
Throughout my journey of learning Photoshop over the last year or so, I've learned so much yet I still fall in the beginner category by most standards. Recently I thought I'd take a crack at something I've been putting off for a while: gradients. I recently came across an illustration of a laptop and thought this would be the [...]
How to prevent your friends from seeing where you are on Facebook I was calmly going about my day last week when a friend of mine called me with an urgent situation: "Can you check Facebook, where does it say I'm at?" "Uh, Chicago dude, why?" "Dammit, I need help turning that off." It turns out he wasn't crazy [...]
How to make WordPress play nice with SVG. This is the first post in a "thinking out loud" series that I am doing. You might encounter this post half way finished or barely even started. It is basically meant as a testing ground for me to learn a new technology. If you run across it unfinished, just know [...]
This problem has been persistent and a real pain in the neck for the last few years. I first ran across this example when implementing schema (itemprop, etc) within my code. I would be hacking away in WordPress HTML editor (text tab) for hours upon end. At some point I would switch to the visual editor (visual tab) and [...]
My list of who I think are the most funniest SEO's out there. In an industry known for being really dry at times, it is nice to follow some people that like to spice it up. Dr Pete definitely gets the #1 slot. This dude is hilarious, and is definitely a "must follow." Sometimes he is on fire. Gonna [...]
Have you ever heard yourself saying the following: "It's just not worth it for me" "I charge $150 an hour, there is no way I'm doing that" "I don't work for free." Well stop it, just stop it right now! Chances are you are reading this because you are trying to grow your consultancy or agency, much like I've [...]
How many times have you heard "WordPress is only for small bloggers" or "you can't use WordPress for a business or enterprise site." Personally I've heard it one too many times. I scraped a number of lists including Alexa top 5000, Fortune 5000 and a few others I have lying around. I ran it through a blog analyzer and [...]
The year was 2008. I was in late 20's, had a bronze Florida tan, and tons of entrepreneurial energy. At this point I made somewhat of a living making websites and doing network admin stuff. One weekend I spent inside a drop ceiling of a boiler room running cat 6 cable for a VOIP system and made $2k. I [...]
In 2013 ICANN announced that they would be expanding the current TLD system from about 20 or so domains (.com, .net, etc) to over 1400 domains. For an internet savvy fellow like myself, this opened up a world of new opportunities. No longer would we be forced into the ".com" system and people would freely choose from this massive [...]
Network security has always been a hobby of mine. I've always been interested in vulnerability scanning, pen testing, hacking and the likes. Last year when our website got hacked I actually got a little excited because I got to figure out how it was done and how to fix it (it was a WordPress SQL injection as a result [...]