I know it’s been a while since my last post, but things at getlegal.com have been quite busy and I changed servers

On to the news.  I will be speaking at confoo.ca in Montreal about Browser Compatibility, titled/inspired by my blog post “Drawing the Line with Browser Compatibility”.  I’m very excited about the opportunity to speak about my career/passion, Web Development.  I recently gave a presentation to the Dallas PHP User Group, “Doctrine Overview”.  I think it went well and was also a good learning experience.
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I usually reserve my rants for twitter, but I found this situation pretty interesting.  Not everyone, but a good portion of people use twitter now.  Through the huge popularity of twitter escalated short urls.  Okay, to my situation.

I saw the movie “The Hangover” last night, and it was so funny….I will probably see it 3 times before it comes to DVD.  Since I live my life in constant movie quotes I posted one of the quotes to twitter, “Tigers love pepper…..They hate cinnamon”.  No big deal, but then I received a reply from someone who I do not follow and this person does not follow me.  I check the twitter profile, as I always do, and it seems it is a spam account.  They are advertising some url using a short url, lucky for me I have a short url expander plugin for Firefox.  Their url is http://****vegastrips.com/thehangover. Read the rest of this entry »