Write Something: Christian Montoya on making a mark in this crazy world.

Archive

2016

April 26: What if the Kickstarter fails?
April 5: Why Kickstarter
March 8: A Small Update on Montoya Industries
January 18: Dreaming of Lacuna, Inc.

2015

October 15: No More Kings

2014

December 11: The Story Behind Emoji Love Story
November 18: WordPress Plugin: Blend Shortcode

2013

September 10: Game Design Everywhere
March 14: Lethal Industry
January 15: Fulfillment

2012

December 29: A Voice
November 5: Warning

2010

June 10: How to create a custom image map header for your Bandcamp page
January 9: My DVD is on the shelves at Barnes & Noble

2009

November 30: I started collecting vinyl records last week
September 9: First Notes as a Flash Game Developer (and my departure from Facebook applications)
August 19: My first foray into Flash
June 2: Blueprint version 0.9
January 20: The Big News

2008

November 14: Extending jQuery's tablesorter plugin to support comma-delimited numbers
November 11: Blueprint version 0.8
June 9: Crowdherding
April 15: Better object handling with PHP singletons
January 28: Construct 0.4 BETA is something I am seriously proud of

2007

December 13: Team Fortress 2: UI design school, basically
December 13: Presto: The paper industry's answer to a paperless world
December 10: How I learned to stop programming and love the DOM
December 8: Construct 0.1 alpha
November 19: The whole community management thing is REALLY HARD
November 9: PHP techniques I use all the time
November 8: I don't know how I did that
October 31: How we took a great Facebook app and made it much better
October 8: Web 3.0 I$ About Money
September 28: The obligatory post-PC construction post
August 31: Blueprint, Montoya-style
August 22: My advice to anyone planning to become a web developer
June 28: Screencaptures of similarities between Kanye West's "Stronger" and "Akira"
June 20: Lessons from the Valley
May 10: Tunnel: A Javascript & CSS (jQuery-powered) game
May 7: How to build your own Weeboy
March 22: Paper: Vertical Search, Meta Information, and XML
March 6: Add Windows Vista fonts to your stylesheets
March 2: Submit buttons should not look like input boxes
February 19: A look at short-term traffic
February 1: CSS techniques I use all the time
January 26: How to sound smart in five simple steps

2006

November 21: Teaching Web Design, part 9
November 10: Teaching Web Design, part 8
October 28: Teaching Web Design, part 7
October 22: A CSS Walkthrough
October 19: Teaching Web Design, part 6
October 15: Full-featured comments.php template for WordPress
September 30: Vending Machine Engineering
September 28: Teaching Web Design, part 5
September 23: Teaching Web Design, part 4
September 16: Teaching Web Design, part 3
September 12: One
September 9: Teaching Web Design, part 2
September 1: Teaching Web Design, part 1
August 11: I need the money
July 17: My dream job
July 12: 4 years
July 3: Hot Dates with CSS
June 21: Lost in Translation
June 3: Stay Safe
June 1: Bad Ideas of Digg Submit
May 15: Web 2.0 I$ About Money
May 6: About those all-nighters
April 4: How to pull an all-nighter

2005

December 26: Miami drivers are stupid
October 5: Start