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Designer Turned Coder: Three Apps I Launched in 2010

Posted January 20, 2011

The year of 2010 marked a turning point in my life.

I had been designing web sites for 15 years, in every capacity. I'd been a freelance designer, a UI designer working on startups, an in house designer, leader of a design agency, and even a sales person. The only hat I hadn't worn was the elusive …

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How to Select All New Entries From Today with MySQL

Posted June 17, 2010

Yesterday I wanted to create a little stats panel for a client that would tell me how many new people had signed up that day. Then I wanted to compare that with Google Analytics unique visitors to come up with a conversion rate for the day.

The Problem

The "creation_date" field in the "users" table …

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SimpleYouTube: PHP Class For Getting Video Details

Posted March 11, 2010

While writing a custom CMS for a client, I was approached with the request to enable it to accept any YouTube URL and add that video to a video gallery page on the web site. This turned out to be a lot easier than it sounds, and in this post I'm sharing the class I wrote to assist with the task.

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Shawn Adrian is a 30 year old freelance designer in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Check out his other project QuoteRobot:

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