Edgar Hassler

Lead Developer

Edgar Hassler Edgar is an experienced web developer who focuses on design patterns, forward compatibility, and innovation. Edgar has an Interdisciplinary Studies Degree from Arizona State University with a focus in Mathematics and Business specializing in statistics and computational mathematics. He is currently working on completing his Masters of Statistics with a focus on data mining methodologies. Edgar has been coding for more than a decade, starting as a teaching assistant for an internet development class twelve years ago, and has worked in professional web development for the last six years on government and enterprise projects. He is a strong supporter of open source software, and immensely enjoys laying in gardens dreaming about rainbows and, on occasion, unicorns.

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Latest Blog Post by Edgar Hassler

The Lazy, Clever Programmer: A Compendium Of Code Reuse & Recycling

Edgar takes an excruciatingly detailed look at code reuse and recycling. He examines when to just say no and how to best build for reuse, along with the pitfalls and successes you'll stumble upon along the way.

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Edgar HasslerRead more »

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Loves Threadless Fan Blog

Loves Threadless is a pet project of Synapse Studios owner Chris Cardinal as a fan blog for popular online t-shirt site Threadless.com. The site covers news and reviews community-submitted shirt designs. It features a simple design concept built on a popular (heavily modified) WordPress theme. The background changes dynamically each time the page is loaded with a new Threadless shirt design. Further, an iGoogle homepage gadget was created that highlights the current "Thiftee" $10 t-shirt deal. It also served as a base of operations for the Loves Threadless Threadcakes Cake Competition.

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