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The idea behind Hoptender no longer aligns with my core values, resulting in the abandonment of active development for quite some time. As such, I feel keeping the application up while its database is not actively maintained is an injustice to the owners of the businesses listed in the app and to the users that rely on it for accurate information...

I had some trouble finding an independent date selector for Angular that supported month & year selection only (without day selection). Most of the stand-alone ones did not support the functionality of skipping day selection out-of-the-box and the few that did were tied to UI frameworks, like Angular Material’s date picker. So I decided to code and release one as a learning project and to maybe fulfill somebody’s need for a solution...

I have been using Slim 3 in some recent projects and wanted to create a quick boilerplate for scaffolding out RESTful APIs. Slim is a PHP microframework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs. It provides framework essentials such as routing, middleware, and dependency injection without all the bloat other “kitchen-sink” frameworks provide...

Hoptender v1.5 update is now available on both iOS and Android platforms. This update provides a much-needed interactive map view (powered by Google Maps) which allows you to better visually discover breweries, bottle shops, and food trucks around your location...

Hoptender has been featured in September’s (2017) issue of Raleigh Magazine. We’d like to thank Raleigh Mag’s staff for the beautiful small write-up on page 35...

I’ve worked with WordPress frequently over the last 10 years, and I wanted to do a quick example for those asking about my experience and figured I’d just release it free. CrankedBlue is a responsive WordPress theme I built without any UI frameworks - just pure HTML5 and CSS3...

Hoptender Business Panel is now live! Hoptender businesses can claim and manage their listings by signing in via Facebook or Twitter...

Hoptender v1.4 is now available for Android and iOS! Hoptender v1.4 is a major update that features a new, improved user interface, a bottle shops category with over 190 shops, new favorites system, new social check-ins, 80% reduction in Android APK filesize, and more!...

There have been quite a few updates to report since the launch of Hoptender on Saturday. Most notably, we have pushed versions V1.1/V1.2 of the mobile app on both iOS and Android, this includes new search functionality on the Browse All page, some improvements, and a couple small bug fixes...

Hoptender is an interactive brewery directory for North Carolina that includes synchronization of events from brewery websites and Facebook, browse events and breweries by your GPS location, rate, check-in, view calendars, food trucks, and more!...