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
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
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
mtp:// is my new favourite protocol. I use it all the time; specifically when explaining how modern web development tools work.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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