I spent some time this weekend building a PHP wrapper for the Hello Sign API. Contributing to open source is important to me. There are so many open source tools out there that I use every day that make my life so much easier. I want to be a part of that and give back.

I am heading on a road trip soon that will last more than a year and will visit every U.S. state. In planning this adventure, I started to think about paths to take through the states. As I plan to camp for a good part of this road trip I wanted to ensure staying relatively warm throughout the entire trip. I decided to build a script that would help me figure out these paths and thought it would be useful to share with others.

I recently wrote an article about integrating search in your web application for OmniTI's Seeds. Search has always been an interesting web functionality to me and I really enjoy working within that problem space. Soon, I hope to expand on this article and to go into more depth with separate articles about implementation of specific search tool features and search result presentation and UI.