Matt Delashaw

Harvesting Content

While working on the best Dallas/Fort Worth real estate agent's website, I realized that there was organic content already available. her Google business profile already had reviews that she was accumulating from her previous clients. Consuming Google Places API, these reviews could be leveraged to add content not only

DIY Backyard Lighting

0:00/1× Just a boy and his steel. I had some steel cable sitting around for a couple of years that I had intended to use to hang some string lights. Here is a dramatic video of my camera following the cable after installation. There is no before or

Ostrich with head buried in sand

software engineer

A Look Inside Hugo. The Power of Static Websites and AWS Hosting

Just a DFW software engineer upgrading Ghost and my host, spinning up Hugo on AWS, and finding a simple solution to implement IndexNow.

Embassy Suites Chorpus Christi

no. just dont. https://www.yelp.com.au/biz/embassy-suites-by-hilton-corpus-christi-corpus-christi?hrid=HF1OLJZB4Qg9PWcCkpTd1Q&utm_source=ishare&utm_content=review

Code Injection

"You are the average of the five people you most associate with" Always encourage and add value to those that are around you. Raise their potential and let them flourish. We are birthed without a predetermined path. Elevate those around you. Dehorn life and enjoy those you come across for

Monday

If someone asks you to pick them up from the airport, do you assume they're flying in from somewhere, or is it just me that does that?

It was finished

It was finished

PHP and MongoDB traffic over SSL

PHP and MongoDB traffic over SSL

So I'm writing this in hopes of saving someone an hour or two. I recently upgraded our development server from CentOS 6.8 to 6.9 and PHP 5.3 to 5.6. It uses the MongoClient to connect to our mongo database instance over a self signed SSL certificate.

Patio v1.75

Patio v1.5 is on the verge of completion. I took the opportunity to get a head start on v1.75. Sneak peak of sorts

Quick Soil pH Test

Quick Soil pH Test

So I wanted to test the soil pH of a couple places in my yard. Flowering plants tend to be pretty reliable on the pH of the soil. The flowers of most plants can actually have their colors altered by changing the acidity of the soil. There are plenty of

Smoker update

Its working!! There's maybe a couple of weekends worth of putting the exterior on and it'll be one hundo. Maybe in that time I'll find thw time to post a how to, up to this point. There are a ton of photos. Contrary to popular practice, I used a refractory

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This: http://anders.com/guides/native-cisco-vpn-on-mac-os-x/ such a helpful page!

STEEL DAY!

Man I love metal work. Today is steel day. I'm fabricating the doors for the smoker, so i felt maybe this would make a good teaser. I'm not showing any photos or the process yet, but if your a friend of mine on facebook, they've been getting some good sneak

Kenda Delashaw

We lost my mother on September 21, 2014 in a motorcycle accident. She was returning from a rally in Riudoso, New Mexico when they lost contol on the bike due to wet roads. After a long wait of picking out a headstone, and then the even longer wait of waiting

Directory Paths

Directory Paths

Why the heck do paths have to use "/" or "\"! Lets all "get on the same page". ba dump tsssh

ESXI Woes

Patio is under way still. Stop asking. Srsly. I had set backs with time and weather, then I came upon a bit of a construction conundrum that I'll go over when it's done, but it has turned into a weekend warrior job. Meantime I've struggled getting a machine to run

Patio 2.0/Coffee Table

Patio 2.0/Coffee Table

Project patio is well underway. Part 1 of 3 of the smoker is constructed, and curing. I'll post a full summary after its completion. With rain in the forecast for the next foreseeable future, my masonry work will have to be put on hold. So I'm going to be brushing

Patio Approved

Currently we still live in an HOA, but the neighbors in the area seem to agree it's useless since there is no common areas so it may be dissolved soon. Still, I applied for my HOA approval of the patio additions and I got the approval letter in the mail

Safer Internet Day

SaferInternetDay

Safer Internet Day

Google is giving away 2 gigabytes of drive storage for their annual security checkup today. It takes a couple minutes to go through and verify your devices and permissions and can be used for every google account if you have more than one. http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/9/

Self Study

https://www.ludu.co/course/ember In a hiatus with the blog for now. I've been incredibly busy for not having anything to do. Strange. Checking out some ember practice ^ see there. I've been looking at certifications as well out of just a self interest and wall decoration. I've started

Fios Outage

Denton's Verizon Fios is down. I may have to find some public internet service to push changes to the site today. Could just do it locally and push it all through later as well. Annnnd it's out again. 2-1-16

Exploring

So I got an email the other day saying my site is official AdSense approved. I'm not to happy with how the banner positions itself though. It's a responsive banner so it adjusts it's own size, but it positions itself on the page funky. Ugh, I was wanting to work

Google

I've added some of Google's code to the site. Down at the bottom you may notice a translator if you'd like to learn a new language. Photo time. I'm going to do what I can to add as many photos to bog this thing down so I can add an

Stamped concrete

Projects

I haven't made any changes yet to the site, I've been distracted with other projects around the house. I browse and research while I'm at the gym looking for inspiration though. I've made a few changes. I've set up a SSL and some HTML tweaking. More to come. After graduation