March 16, 2007
My remix for the Nine Inch Nails track, Survivalism.
http://andrewembler.com/music/misc/my-survivalism-remix
December 30, 2009
I'm migrating from electricstate.com to andrewembler.com. 2010: Out with the old, yadda yadda yadda...
http://andrewembler.com/web/welcome-to-my-website
May 01, 2006
concrete5 was not my first CMS.
http://andrewembler.com/projects/audition-a-web-cms-for-bands
September 10, 2007
My firm, Concrete Websites, officially launched the website for Lemonade.com, a startup with whom we’ve been working for months.
http://andrewembler.com/web/lemonade-com-officially-launched
January 12, 2010
Eek out some more performance out of your site, without pulling your hair out.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/5-easy-ways-to-speed-up-a-concrete5-site
May 27, 2010
This article provides guidelines and code to let concrete5 add-on developers or anyone setup a concrete5 demo, complete with a limited administrative user, auto-installed packages, and locked down permissions. The demo can easily be reset at any time.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/add-on-developers-create-your-own-concrete5-demo
January 16, 2010
Download an iPhone-optimized concrete5 theme, and learn how to automatically display it to mobile Safari on the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/optimizing-your-concrete5-website-for-the-iphone
January 05, 2006
In early 2006, I launched a site that I hoped would compete with Citysearch.
http://andrewembler.com/projects/the-portland-scene-web-2-0-playground
April 20, 2010
Keep users from landing on concrete5's index.php?cID=xxx pages with a handy, simple snippet of code.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/seo-tip-force-concrete5-pages-to-display-at-one-url
May 12, 2010
Learn how to build navigations in concrete5, including what the Auto-Nav does and what its options mean. Then explore some practical examples, how you can control the way it displays and links pages, and how to theme and extend it.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/concrete5-primer-auto-nav-block
March 04, 2010
Here's a simple option you can enable to improve the performance of Zend Cache. I'm including code for usage with concrete5, but this option is available to any application using Zend Cache.
http://andrewembler.com/web/improving-the-performance-of-zend-cache
May 05, 2010
Learn how to build a simple FAQ system from scratch, including a single page interface for listing and sorting entries, a single page interface for editing entries, a page list template for displaying them.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/build-a-single-page-powered-editing-interface-for-concrete5
January 09, 2008
We learn the truth behind one of Apple's hottest products.
http://andrewembler.com/apple/the-real-reason-for-the-macbook-air
January 20, 2010
concrete5's custom block templates are powerful - but what if you want the entire functionality of the original block's view template, just wrapped in something else? I'll show you how to make that happen.
http://andrewembler.com/concrete5/creating-a-simple-concrete5-wrapper-custom-block-template
January 01, 2008
How does it work, what can it do, and what can it not?
http://andrewembler.com/web/a-first-look-at-opensocial