In April of 2025, I launched Zeren.ai, a project I had been envisioning for some time. The goal was to create a platform that hellps small and medium sized businesses, as well as developers, discover the right AI tools for their unique use cases.
Category Archives: Software
Navigating UTM Pitfalls in GA4
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) offers powerful insights into user behavior and campaign effectiveness, but it heavily relies on UTM parameters for accurate tracking. However, when used improperly issues may arise.
The Evolution of Agile Leadership
As technology advances and industries become more interconnected, Agile methodologies have begun to adapt and evolve. One significant shift was the expansion of Agile principles beyond software development.
Google Page Fetch – Failed: Not found (404)
When having issues with Google indexing your site, be sure and check your .htaccess file for excess bloat that may be restricting search engines from doing their jobs. It turns out Google Page Fetch was not working properly against my site.
Open Source of Grabbit
By now my list of social media contacts that know of and/or work with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM or previously known as CQ5) has grown quite a bit. I’d like to share the announcement that a project that has started within my work group at Time Warner Cable has gone open source. A project which we […]
Enable CORS with Apache Config Change
Cross domain scripting can cause a lot of frustration when developing web applications, especially when doing initial development work. When working strictly on a local machine, it shouldn’t matter that information needs to be called from one port and consumed by another.
Using Branches in Git
In order to utilize Git’s full potential, we should be using branches to house our sets of changes. Typically you want a branch to be as atomic as possible. The goal is to have your branch contain a specific set of work (which can be eventually squashed down to a single commit) which will eventually […]
Ubuntu Forums Upgrade to vBulletin 4
So this may be a few weeks shy of being breaking news, but I wanted to write a short post to give recognition to a friend and former coworker who helped make this possible. Kyle Baker took on the task of helping to Ubuntu Forums develop an OpenID plugin for vBulletin 4. I encourage you […]
Issues Upgrading From SHA1 to SHA256
On a recent project I was asked to upgrade the security algorithm used from SHA1 to SHA256 The project was broken up into 2 code bases, the first being a Java code base which was used to communicate with Adobe LiveCycle ES2.5 and the second being a C# code based used to communicate with Microsoft […]