SMOOCHY Methodology Explained
May 11, 2016 -A couple years ago I commented on a post about Using Object Oriented CSS with Sass on The Sass Way, commenting that at Carpages.ca we use a mash-up methodology... View Article
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Window Managers
April 14, 2016 -Workflow and simple productivity tools were a couple fascinations of 2015. I still plan to write about it in some detail, but have shared here... View Article
DeGagne Hyundai
December 15, 2015 -Our team recently launched the DeGagne Hyundai website and I wanted to share one of the design features I think looks pretty cool.
WordPress.com Desktop Client
November 24, 2015 -Yesterday WordPress announced there is a new WP client. I’m publishing this from it!
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fresh CSS
September 24, 2013 -I’ve fallen helplessly in love with Sass! It’s made front end fast, and efficient in my day to day – but the only catch is... View Article