SassTO – A closer look at SMOOCHY!
October 20, 2015 -Tonight at SassTO front-end engineer Matt Rose and I will be talking about the Carpages front-end framework Gemini, and its SMOOCHY methodology (Scalable, Modular, Object... View Article
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Troubleshooting Windows 10 VM
September 23, 2015 -I had an issue where the Virtual Box VM for Windows 10 wouldn’t unzip on my Mac. Advice that worked for me came from Twitter:... View Article
Pre Element use-case: brilliant or hacky?
September 10, 2015 -Twice in the past month I have come across issues where the data coming to me from a database contains useful whitespace, but no HTML.... View Article
Solving a browser Font issue
September 4, 2015 -I’ve had an issue with fonts messing up in my browser. I thought it was just me! This has happened before, like when a client sent... View Article
Using Franchise Guidelines to build online trust
August 27, 2015 -It’s a slight departure from writing for web journals, but being a team lead for dealer sites at Carpages led to me getting published in... View Article
Focus & Pomodoro
June 9, 2015 -I thought I’d share a small change I’m trying with work to hopefully improve my focus, speed, and quality of work.
Working at Carpages!
May 2, 2015 -For just over a year now I’ve been working as a front-end developer at Carpages.ca. With the new job came several other life upgrades. Bring on the... View Article
WWJNTOOHE (What Would Jesus Name This Object Oriented HTML Element)?
April 6, 2015 -I love CSS, and I really love OOCSS. To me being Object Oriented means two things: breaking down patterns, and using a clear easy-to-adopt naming... View Article
Writing for the web industry
April 5, 2015 -I’ve had the opportunity to write for a few notable industry journals, and I’ve been asked a number of times how this came to be... View Article
Colemak for kids
February 16, 2015 -I did a bunch of keyboard layout research this weekend. It’s a simple fact that my kids are going to be nerds; I’m not sure what... View Article
Magic Transfer Protocol!
January 14, 2015 -mtp:// is my new favourite protocol. I use it all the time; specifically when explaining how modern web development tools work.
Embrace your Bounce Rate
October 24, 2014 -Yesterday I had a fresh mind-blowing thought about Bounce Rates. Google defines a website Bounce as: “the percentage of visits in which users view only... View Article
FITC Web Unleashed 2014
October 15, 2014 -Last month I attended the FITC conference in Toronto. My biggest take-away was about Web Components (using the Polymer polyfill for now). HTML includes will be... View Article
Persuade
September 26, 2014 -My colleague here says that I have a way of trying to persuading people that is unique. He says I’ll give a short synopsis of my... View Article
B+
September 7, 2014 -There are two sides of me that work on making websites: The perfectionist that wants every single detail polished before another human sees it, and... View Article
Romania.
July 17, 2014 -In a few days I’m going to Romania as a part of a short mission trip with a team from my church (Harvest Bible Chapel... View Article
Build it yourself.
July 5, 2014 -CSS Frameworks are amazing. The world has enough of them – but you should still make one more. If you write CSS for a living I’m... View Article
ASCII Art in Sublime
June 27, 2014 -Yesterday @SublimeTxtTips tweeted a link to a handy way to get around stylesheets. I was stunned to see it was a post I wrote last year. I actually... View Article
Designer vs. Terminal
June 15, 2014 -It was 2010. It was the first time I would square off against the dreaded terminal. I was a web designer at an agency, and... View Article
Farewell to Thrillworks
April 19, 2014 -A week ago was my last day at Thrillworks! It was a bittersweet day. I’ve loved my time at this agency, and they truly have... View Article