Timing Technology
September 29, 2012 -By all measures I have a very blessed life! The timing of my birth and the advent of the technology have worked out amazingly! I... View Article
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Return of the Mobile Phone
September 19, 2012 -Well. That lasted nearly ten days. After boldly declaring an intention to no longer carry a phone my family was faced with a brief but... View Article
Google Apps drop support of IE8!
September 14, 2012 -Today it was announced that in November Google Apps (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, etc) will stop supporting IE8. This is astounding as IE9 is pretty solid... View Article
No More Mobile Phone
September 9, 2012 -I’m a bit of a gadget nerd. This doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows me as I’m often testing sites on devices... View Article
Teaching
September 5, 2012 -Today I’m showing our PMs how to use WordPress!!! FTW!
Image Texture
August 31, 2012 -Graham Kennery showed me this… http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/CSS3FullscreenSlideshow/index.html These images scale to browser size – this means that images can look pretty crappy when scaled up. But... View Article
Responsive Web Above The Fold
August 28, 2012 -Responsive Web Above The Fold In this CSS Tricks post I share how there may actually be some value in considering what the fold is... View Article
Hobby
August 3, 2012 -I had a terribly realization recently: my biggest hobby for the last couple years has been “making websites”. Sadly, that’s also what I do for... View Article
Web Production as Chess
July 20, 2012 -Web Production as Chess This is one of my favourite posts I’ve written (read that as unvainly as you can please). Here are some thoughts... View Article
Great WordPress Plugins
July 15, 2012 -Good help can be so hard to find. That’s how I often feel about plugins. It’s a huge relief to find one that really works... View Article
Being Google
July 14, 2012 -I love thinking about bizarre scenarios. What if it became possible for example for you to know everything on the Internet!? In this hypothetical I’m... View Article
CSS3 Patterns Gallery
July 4, 2012 -My mind was blown today by Lea Verou’s gallery of pure CSS backgrounds. At first I thought these were larger than using images, but I... View Article
Google Analytics Browser Size Reports
July 3, 2012 -This weekend Google Analytics announced a few new features including a mobile app, app usage tracking, and a couple other things that will make stats... View Article
Lately
June 19, 2012 -I love my family. In recent weeks we’ve gone through a difficult time. It’s awesome to get through circumstances together and realize you’ve been made... View Article
Internet vs. $1,000,000
June 13, 2012 -I love hypothetical what-ifs. Over the years I’ve had some great conversations come out of them, here’s my latest which stumps me. Would you quit... View Article
You’re a Terrible Client
May 23, 2012 -You’re a Terrible Client! I recently had the pleasure to write for Web Designer Depot about the struggles web designers face in doing their own... View Article
Firefox’s Crazy 3D View
May 3, 2012 -My colleague Paul has done it again. He showed me a very strange thing in the new Firefox inspector (not to be confused with Firebug).... View Article
Gzip (itty-do-da)
May 1, 2012 -Gzip is a GNU zip compression that can be applied to files (according to this Wikipedia article that made me cross-eyed by the second sentence).... View Article
Further Defence of Scoped CSS!
April 27, 2012 -It’s probably obvious where I stand on this topic: I was the author of CSS-Tricks post ‘Saving the Day with Scoped CSS‘, and I got an... View Article
HTML5 Offers ‘Scoped’ CSS for Precision Styling
April 24, 2012 -HTML5 Offers ‘Scoped’ CSS for Precision Styling Scoped CSS is getting a bit more coverage since my recent CSS-Tricks post, and today was featured on... View Article
Starting my first Ebook.
April 24, 2012 -Every so often I’ll run into one of my colleagues from college, and catch up. Often they’ll tell me their going to get back into... View Article
GTA Conferences
April 21, 2012 -This is the time of year when Twitter gives me the conference itch! It seems every week there is some event going on directly relevant... View Article