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CBS buys CNet Networks

CBS purchased CNet Networks Inc today for $1.8 billon. You can add this to the list of large purchases by big businesses out there. It seems many companies are making ’strategic acquisitions’ of online services or businesses in order to boost their overall revenue. News Corp bought Myspace for $580 million a few years back and [...]


Take That Myspace Spammers!

As though Myspace didn’t have enough revenue they recently won a judgement against notorious spammers in the amount of $230 million. Personally I’m quite happy about this for a few reasons. The main reason is that this (hopefully) will make other spammers shy away from this type of behavior. I’m guessing that the spammers who [...]


PHP Dreams

Since my younger years I have had some random and quite funny sleep ‘walking’ experiences. They seemed to have dissipated with the years I have gained and my wife hasn’t experienced too many odd things. I do talk in my sleep here and there - but most of the time the words don’t come together [...]


Catch-all PHP Form Processor

Introduction
Through my work in web development I’ve noticed the high number of times I need to write out a contact or registration form for a client. Each time I get the form fields together and then decide how I want to process the form. This usually entails a client-side validation of certain fields (required fields, [...]


Oceanfront Launch

Ideal Design Firm proudly launched the new Oceanfront Cottage Rentals, LLC website Wednesday of this week. Their site was originally managed in a page by page fashion using Frontpage. The new design was primarily done by my business partner and our lead designer Bill. I constructed the back-end with the exception of the javascript library [...]


Portfolio Coming

I’ll get my portfolio moved over sometime this [year]. Until then just check it out at erikreagan.net.


New Blog

Hello to the fabulous world of blogging!
For some time I have been considering blogging. I’ve had erikreagan.com for about 5 years now and I haven’t really kept up content in about 4 years. A few months ago the desire to blog started to grow considerably. Not only is it a great way to share with [...]