I Build Stuff

Right now in the ExpressionEngine community there are 2 pricing modules (well, 3 if you count free). The first, and most popular is a commercial, single site license. The other is donations. I had a

Updating EE 2.0 can be a pain due to the location of the third_party and config folders, which are conveniently stored within the system/expressionengine folder. The system folder is the main folder

Shortly off the heels of our 1 year anniversary of the upstairs bedroom and bathroom remodel, which was recorded for an episode of Sweat Equity on the DIY Network and aired for the first time on

Months ago, if not a year ago, Collette said she wanted wall to wall cabinets on one side of the living room. I said, "sure, I can do that", without any experience building furniture. So this past

Today I had the need to create custom short URLs for a client. They wanted a single keyword as the short URL. I first looked into the Shrimp plugin, and then the Redirect301 plugin, but both relied

Yeah, we got hit by a tornado. Just the other night I was watching a special on the Discovery channel about tornadoes. With my newly found expertise on tornadoes, I'd expect we were hit by an F2 ... Read More »

The pergola was 3 weekends in the making. It ended up costing around $400 for pressure treated lumber. Cedar would have been around $1200, which was more than we wanted to spend. It was a pretty easy ... Read More »

After my showcase interview went live at expressionengine.com I received two tweets asking if I would share the code behind the chat application built for the site. Note that this is completely

For the first time in 3 weeks, we have doors on our garage again. There is still a lot to do though. Read More »

Spring is here, and that means one thing. Home repair. Our first project is to build some new garage doors. We were wanting to start with building a pergola on the back porch, but the garage doors were on their last leg/hinge, literally. Read More »

I just spent an hour or so re-styling the blog based on what my bland homepage has looked for over a year or so. I've been imagining a more majestic design, but the simplicity is growing on me. Read More »

In TV land things are often done out of order, and re-assembled to appear to be in order in post production. We experienced this well throughout our remodel... having to do parts of the project that ... Read More »

You read the post title correctly. We're finished. Finally. And for the first time I've linked each of these photos to a larger version. So what do we do now that we're done and not completely ... Read More »

Head board: done laundry built-in: done shelf built-in: done stair railing: done final plumbing inspection: passed Left to do: painting touch ups, bring in furniture, final coat of sealant on ... Read More »

The master carpenter, yours truly, was hard at work again this past weekend. I built the shelving Saturday, and it's pretty sweet, although you don't get the full effect from this photo due to it ... Read More »