Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, YoYo, Juggling, Baphomet

Today I decided I was going to build the asynchronous picture uploader for one of our new projects. I had installed the PECL Uploadprogress extension awhile ago and I just needed to build an example and then build it into our app.
However, my plan was spited by the opensource gods who delivered very little documentation [...]

I broke my blog the other day. It was a pain in the ass. I don’t really know what happened - just that it broke. So I was thinking, I hate upgrading my wordpress. I hate it. I agree 100% with Matt Cutts about how wordpress has one of the most clunky and cruft creating [...]

Memcached on skinnyCorp

In the last year or so Threadless has grown insanely. When I started in 2005, we had around 2 servers and a bundle of downtime. Now, just a year and a half later we have an assload of servers and haven’t had any load based downtime in almost 6 months. Its awesome. We have really [...]

So i decided to copy the success of my flickr badge and create a youtube badge. It works really easy and shows the last 6 videos you have uploaded. Its pretty cool. I used the youtube class i made the other day and just copied the functionality straight across from my flickr badge. haha. its [...]

Some quick youtube hackings

Man. Today was pretty awesome. Woke up. Juggled. Ate good food. And wrote some dope PHP stuff.
After reading a bunch about some peoples PHP Youtube API implementation, I decided that i was tired of looking at some other peoples crappy and over complicated code. So i whipped up something that is really easy, works and [...]

a couple things

First off - this is the most amazing music video i have ever seen. There is very little hyperbole in that statement. And since jacob has shown me that music video, i have been listening to muse like a madman. Such a funny video. Amazing.
Second - i made this website that aggregates hiromi and my [...]

The last couple weeks have been ultra nerdy. It has been great. I got my gumstix and have been rocking that - attempting to get a handle on how i am going to make that work. It doesn’t seem like it will be all that hard to theoretically make. I am worried about having to [...]

this is a test post

for some reason i broke my blog and i needed to fix it. So i am testing it. i also merged 3gcoding with it. hmm.

ruby on rails

I decided to follow the pack of wild php developers and attack ruby on rails. it rules. in the past 30 hours of dayish time - i have spent a significant amount of time devoted to learning this new platform. it is nifty for sure. Basically it is an mvcish platform that runs off of [...]

man.

i am rather burned out. i have been working with php-mvc frameworks and they are making me not feel smart. it is totally bumming me out.
i need some help. some change. someone to punch me in the eye. eep cryptic. heh. i am soo bored. i guess i just need to represent and [...]

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Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer and software architect involved in social networks and the open source software. I am very happily employed as the CTO to the awesome skinnyCorp in Chicago, IL. We make some really cool stuff. This is obviously my blog. I write about everything from being a professional yoyoer to hacking the newest Internet appliance. Be sure and check out my homepage at harperreed.org. If you are so interested, my resume is located here. I love getting emails and what not so feel free to contact me through here.

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