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Dev memories 2013

December 18, 2013 - By

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 - By

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 - By

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 - By

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

The Fall of IE8

August 12, 2013 - By

IE8 is on its way out. IE10 is officially the most used version of Internet Explorer (source).

Quote

August 10, 2013 - By

Don’t try to be ‘good’ at ten things, be great at two things. These were some of the best words I heard this week. I... View Article

Password Security

August 8, 2013 - By

I kinda wish I never found this: Chrome doesn’t do a fantastic job of keeping your passwords safe. At all (source). In fact, I’m guessing... View Article

If the Internet died

July 25, 2013 - By

When it gets down to it, the Internet is a pretty key ingredient in my hobby / job of building websites. This begs the question:... View Article

No.

July 24, 2013 - By

Probably one of the more important lessons I’ll learn this year is to simply say “no“. Today friends needed help with a pretty interesting and... View Article

DRY CSS

July 23, 2013 - By

I’ve heard of the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) coding methodology a bit over the years, but this practical explanation really blew my mind. It often... View Article

I amn’t

July 10, 2013 - By

Today when asked a simple question my two year old replied “I amn’t”. We laughed, but didn’t correct her, after all: she’s actually made a... View Article

Breaking the rules

July 7, 2013 - By

I recently had the pleasure of collaborating on a bit of responsive front end / WordPress work with a colleague at Thrillworks. This highly experienced... View Article

An open letter to Adobe Typekit

June 29, 2013 - By

Greetings and salutations good folks at Adobe Typekit! Have I told you lately how great you all are? That thing you're collectively doing with your hair is really working for you! Yes, you're always so perceptive; I am trying to butter you up. You see, I have a favour to ask. Can you add the Poppl Laudatio family to your font library please?! I'm not asking for something for nothing. I have some ideas.

Where art thou front end?

June 25, 2013 - By

Front end developers are an interesting bunch. I find they generally come from two places: Designers who have learned to code their creations, or Computer... View Article