One of the toughest things about Drupal is learning how to write a custom module. They say the easiest way to get started is by looking at existing code taken from the Drupal core as well as contributed modules, study it, and then modify it to suit your needs. So that's exactly what I did, and will share here what I learned while writing the simplest possible module imaginable. It involves only four lines of code, which is really just two lines inside a function, that originally was just ONE line. Simple enough? Ok, let's get started.

A few days ago I was reading an article from the newspaper about a couple of SDSU students that have started an award-winning business selling healthy shakes to students on campus. Congratulations to Kevin Gelfand & Martin Reiman.

The reason for this blog post is because the part about "recommendations of nutritionists to consume protein within 30 minutes of a workout" caught my eye and I wanted to elaborate on what's just as important (carbs) and add some more details from my own experience. Also, the new year just got started and I know a lot of my personal friends want to start working out, so instead of repeating the same shit that I've been saying over and over again for years, I can now tell them to just read my blog (as well as try to help them save money by joining 24 Hour Fitness, which I wrote about a few months ago). :P

Back in the day there were two types of memberships for 24 Hour Fitness, a gym that currently has over 400 locations nationwide and are mostly open 24 hours:

1) Short-term - This is the typical one where you pay a monthly fee of anywhere between $19.99 to $49.99 plus a one-time initiation fee of anywhere between $0 to $49.99 for most clubs, depending on:

I'm a proud graduate of the Founder Institute, a technology startup incubator based in Silicon Valley. A few days ago it just dawned on me that the domain name of fellow graduate, Jordan Lyall, was Getfanfare.com although his company name is Fanfare. Now of course it would've been awesome if he could've registered Fanfare.com. Unfortunately the current owner of that cool domain name is SanDisk Corporation, so chances are not likely that Jordan will own it in the very near future (unless he's willing to pay a huge premium to purchase it). And Getfanfare.com is a fine domain name anyway. Much better than The Record Breaking Domain, which is currently on sale for a whopping $12 million (and a dollar more to be exact). But what about Fanfa.re? The same goes for Matthias Gallica's ShareSquare. His domain name is Getsharesquare.com. So am I the only one thinking he should register Sharesqua.re, at least as a backup? Because these domain names sure look really cool to me!