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
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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
Falling in love with CodePen
April 19, 2014 -Typically the best learnings I’ve had in front end development start with a question, and end with me in raw HTML experimenting. Recently I’ve been... View Article
The best game you didn’t realize is installed on your phone
April 19, 2014 -Not too long ago I wrote a guest post on my brother’s leisure blog; Leisurebeam. It’s about using the Stop watch app on most smartphones... View Article
Annual Troll Day
March 13, 2014 -Let’s face it: as an entire community online we all have to deal with trolls. I propose that once a year we embrace this sub-culture... View Article
Adding a Time Stamp to preprocessed stylesheets
March 7, 2014 -A couple weeks ago I started hunting the Internet for a way to add a timestamp to my Sass compiled CSS. I’m currently collaborating with... View Article
Instant Click: Optimistic Preload
February 19, 2014 -Instant Click is a JS library that optimistically preloads pages when hovering the links. This is such a brilliant way to speed up a site’s... View Article
Web Inspecting Source!
January 20, 2014 -I’m probably thinking this is a lot cooler than it really is; but in Chrome when you view source on a site you can also web... View Article
Book Editor: RESS Essentials
January 12, 2014 -Last summer I had the honour to be asked to review a book title RESS ESSENTIALS (Packt Publishing). RESS (Responsive Server Side) is something I’ve... View Article
Faux-forking Bootstrap Grids
December 23, 2013 -I love digging into open source frameworks and adopting bits and bobs that can make my life easier! One of my favourites of late has... View Article
Dev memories 2013
December 18, 2013 -2013 has been the busiest year of my career by far. I have churned out probably 2 or 3 times the websites of all previous... View Article
Money
December 18, 2013 -We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. – Walt Disney This is how I feel about making websites,... View Article
Responsive Design Is
December 6, 2013 -This week I was interviewed by Responsive Web Design Is. I talked a bit about the recent BlackBerry Blogs responsive refresh. You can read it... View Article
Teacher for a day
November 18, 2013 -Not long ago I had the opportunity and pleasure of speaking to two classes of advertising and marketing students at Humber College in Toronto. It... View Article