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About 2 months ago, Max Pool from Codesqueeze announced his First Annual Squeezed Reader Awards, and the day before Thanksgiving he emailed me that I’d won the iPod!! I just want to thank Max for the contest and for naming me the winner!

How did I win? Well, I wrote a guest post on 25 Signs That You’ve Got a Bad Client, made comments on his posts, put a link to the blog in my blogroll, stumbled and dugg almost every new post he wrote, and I already am an RSS subscriber and had faved Codesqueeze on Technorati. Basically, I did everything except write a post about one of his. The great thing about all of this stuff is that it came natural because I really like Codesqueeze. Max writes about the day in day out problems programmers face, and that represents a lot of what DEVTRENCH is about. I’ve been reading Codesqueeze since I stumbled upon his 101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed post.

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Here we go…

• I blame this post for not posting frequently this week (that and an incredible amount of work and no time). It got me all revved up to make better, less frequent posts, and….well you see what happened.
• This photoshop tutorial really helped me watermark all of the images I’ve been adding to the new DEVTRENCH gallery. I know you can do it through Gallery2, but it compresses the images again and made some of them look bad. It’s better to watermark before uploading if you can.
• Been looking into this for the DEVTRENCH gallery and some other galleries I manage. Shows you how to mix SmoothGallery with sLightBox.
• Finally, here is a cool post from Tim Ferriss about why you should be a Jack of All Trades. I’m definitely one, so I’m glad we’re in demand.

Seriously though, I’ve really been slacking in November. I guess October was just so good for me that I’ve been just hanging out. Even though I haven’t been posting, I been working behind he scenes -mostly on the new gallery, and on some changes for DEVTRENCH’s format. I know I just rolled out a new design, but I just haven’t felt that it is quite right yet. I really want DEVTRENCH to be a great resource for PHP web developers and web designers, so you see some changes roll out in the next few months that make this site more of a web development hub, than just a web development blog. Stay tuned…

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Yesterday was Veteran’s Day in the US, and I wanted to take this post to express my thanks to those that are in the military now and those that have been in the past. Thank you for your service and thank you for fighting for this country and what it stands for. Whether you served in wartime or peace, your presence and willingness to sacrifice your life for the rest of us is beyond commendable. Thank you for keeping us and our children safe, and protecting the freedom we so easily take for granted.

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