Nicholas Kreidberg
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Conditional Insert / Update With The Eloquent ORM

By Nicholas Kreidberg On June 5, 2013 · Add Comment · In Blog, Development, PHP
I have been using Laravel more and more lately (full post on that coming soon) and have really been enjoying the Eloquent ORM. I plan to extend the ORM so that it includes an “upsert” method but in the short term I had a need to check for the existence of a key and then [...]
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Recent Music Trends

By Nicholas Kreidberg On April 10, 2013 · Add Comment · In Blog, Lifestyle, Music
Every so often I like to share some of the albums/artists I have been jamming to. Over the last few months I have been working on a lot of very “heads down” type projects which provide excellent opportunities for both music listening and discovery. Below is a rundown of my top artists on Last.fm for [...]
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The Midwest PHP Conference

By Nicholas Kreidberg On March 5, 2013 · Add Comment · In Blog, Development, Lifestyle, PHP
I attended the first ever Midwest PHP Conference last weekend and blogged about it on the Spyder Trap site. Please check out the full post here.
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Extend PHP error_log() Functionality

By Nicholas Kreidberg On December 3, 2012 · Add Comment · In Blog, Development, PHP
Throughout development many of us use the built-in error_log() function quite a bit. I know I sure do when I am debugging models, controllers, and the such but don’t you hate it when you want to write the contents of an array or object to the error log? The error_log() function only accepts a string [...]
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Developer Challenge Post

By Nicholas Kreidberg On November 21, 2012 · Add Comment · In Blog, Development, Lifestyle
I recently participated in a 90-minute developer challenge and blogged about it on my employers website, check it out!
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iPhone 5 Review

By Nicholas Kreidberg On October 14, 2012 · Add Comment · In Blog, Reviews
One year ago today, I posted a review of Apple’s iOS 5.0 and now a year later I am back w/ a review of the iPhone 5 running iOS 6.0. After spending a week with the iPhone 5 I have really grown to love it. I upgraded from an iPhone 4 (not 4S) so the [...]
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The World In Links [August, 2012] — HTML5, Markdown, Node.js

By Nicholas Kreidberg On September 3, 2012 · Add Comment · In Blog, Link Lists
Apache – An introduction to the web server. CodeIgniter – Advanced techniques and tricks. Development – The principles of agile. HTML5 – Best practices. JavaScript – The key principles of maintainable JS. Markdown – The ins and outs. Node.js – Create a resumable video upload tool. Node.js – Screen scraping. PayPal – Processing payments w/ [...]
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Update

By Nicholas Kreidberg On September 3, 2012 · Add Comment · In Blog, Lifestyle
It has been quite a while since my last post but I am happy to report that Minnesota is starting to feel more and more like home.  We have discovered a ton of things to do in the area and are really enjoying being in a bigger city.  My job at Spyder Trap is going [...]
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The Next Chapter

By Nicholas Kreidberg On July 20, 2012 · Add Comment · In Lifestyle
If you have noticed a bit of a decrease in my posts lately it is because we just finished moving half way across the country. As many of you know I accepted a position with Spyder Trap (a marketing firm in Minneapolis) back in April and I have been working remotely for them since May [...]
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Your Password

By Nicholas Kreidberg On June 20, 2012 · Add Comment · In Blog, Lifestyle, Social Media
With all of the recent security breaches and the fact that many very large organizations are still using encryption routines that were popular over a decade ago we should all take a step back and look at how we manage our online security. Most people that I talk to have a couple passwords that they [...]
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