Eli White

PHP, Games, Crossbows, Beer

Eli White is a PHP Coder, author, and speaker. He also plays Xbox 360 and does Medieval Reenactment in the SCA (including archery, armored combat, brewing and woodworking)

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No longer fun-employed: MojoLive June 10, 2011
So it appears that the ‘cat is out of the bag’ so to speak, as one of my future coworkers, Sandy Smith, has already blogged about it. But Sandy, myself and a few others (Who I won’t name yet) … are getting together to start up a new company called MojoLive. As Sandy mentioned in [...] More
Comments | Tags: Life, PHP, Tech, cto, mojo, mojolive

How not to interview June 2, 2011
My final post in my Job Search series. It’s short and simple. Employers: Don’t “Bait and Switch” on job interviews. Multiple times during this job hunt, I’ve had companies contact me, sounding very excited to have me, to talk to me about specific position(s) that they’d be interested in me taking. Then, at some point [...] More
Comments | Tags: Life, PHP, Job Search

Dealing with Maryland Unemployment May 31, 2011
Unlike the last posts where I have attempted to restrain myself a bit and not rant. I’m going to enter full rant mode here. When I got laid off, I was looking at finances and realized: “Hey wait, I should be eligible for unemployment”. Now, I’ll admit that I felt a bit weird about it. [...] More
Comments | Tags: Life, PHP, Job Search

Twitter

Gaaa. Seems every grocery store in MD is sold out of Fava Beans. What the? Was there a run on them? January 28, 2012 1:01am

New iPod replacement for my son who broke his screen. Daddy $99 poorer now. January 28, 2012 12:01am

RT @skoop: oh, nice one! :) RT @the_linie: my #linktuesday is this article about new programming slang http://t.co/WhIY86fZ January 24, 2012 12:01pm

Dear LazyWeb: Is there an app for my mac that will show me a live view of what the touchpad/trackpad is seeing? I'm having phantom touches January 24, 2012 3:01am

RT @afilina: Funny: RT @squil 7XX Range of HTTP Status codes - Developer Errors https://t.co/1b7gxZFB January 23, 2012 2:01pm

I've unleashed a monster. My wife has been playing Oblivion for 5+ hours straight now. #whatHaveIDone January 22, 2012 11:01pm

Prepared for extra geeky day w/ wife. Seen me play Skyrim & mentioned playing Oblivion to get into it. What for son? http://t.co/imNYOAv6 January 22, 2012 4:01pm

Stupid school system woke me up this morning to tell me that all school functions were cancelled due to snow. IT'S SATURDAY. #ugh January 21, 2012 12:01pm

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EliW unlocked 9 achievements October 22, 2011

EliW played some Alan Wake. October 22, 2011

That was quite a marathon of Alan Wake that EliW played. October 21, 2011

EliW unlocked the Carny achievement in Alan Wake October 18, 2011

EliW played some Alan Wake. October 18, 2011

Last.FM

Digitalism – 2 Hearts January 27, 2012 2:01am

Justice – Phantom Pt. II January 27, 2012 2:01am

The Glitch Mob – Fistful of Silence January 27, 2012 2:01am

Daft Punk – Overture January 27, 2012 2:01am

MSTRKRFT – Work On You January 27, 2012 2:01am

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January 26, 2012

Eli White posted a photo:

I had a hard time deciding which picture to use for today. We'd been at the Haven, and there were lots of various pictures I took of people, things, etc that I liked. But this was the 'one' when I saw it.

January 26, 2012

Eli White posted a photo:

My son had a chain and a silver fork, for whatever reason, underneath his iPod dock. Which happens to have a blue light under it. I thought the effect was rather striking and tried to capture it with my camera. I had to manually focus (gasp) to get this. Autofocus just gave up with the bright blue light it seems.

January 26, 2012

Eli White posted a photo:

These stones were appropriated at an SCA event by the Highland Foorde Road Survey Crew. I found them laying like this and just grabbed the camera

January 26, 2012

Eli White posted a photo:

Daaad! I said I didn't want to be part of this project!

January 26, 2012

Eli White posted a photo:

Was at a tech meetup, took a few pictures of my computer 'just in case'. That was a good thing, because all the pictures of people turned out blurry/grainy. *sigh*