Software Highlight: TechFont

Working on a portfolio or similar project where you want icons to display what tech stack you’re using? TechFont is here to help. I usually turn to Font Awesome for any project in need of icons, but they don’t have brand icons for everything, and the ones they do have don’t support multi-color. To my...

Software Highlight: PHP REST Service

PHP REST Service is a smart API server that can automatically generate API endpoints from a class (or manually specified callback functions), using PHP reflection. It’s extremely lightweight with zero dependencies and a single server file, and it packs a ton of features like regex url patterns, JSON, XML, plaintext and custom responses, middleware functions…

PHP, APIs, and the Woes of Taking Over a Codebase

At my job I’m currently the de facto software developer. A couple months ago, the previous software developer graduated, and while I already had some experience with our internal tools and built some of my own, I was now tasked with maintaining and building upon these tools. I was immediately faced with a few challenges:...

Hello World!

Hi there, my name is Carter. You may know me by my online name cdg / cdgco. I’m currently a student at Oregon State University where I’m studying for my Bachelors in Computer Science. I work as an Information Technology Technician for the College of Engineering where I am also a student software developer, building...