Category: Random

  • Power Breeds Complexity

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    Yeah this is kind of an iPhone/iPod 3.0 software post. Sorry if you’re tired of it. We’re not doing a round up of cool features or anything like that so read on. My experience with my iPod 3.0 update was less than satisfactory. 3 hours 2 reboots 1 complete restore and I was up to…

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  • Designer Shout Out

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    I was recently breifly interviewed by a wonderful identity, brand, all around designer, and Photoshop teacher that goes by @Firgs on twitter. Hit the link to read the interview. Once you’re done browse her site and subscribe to her blog for some awesome Photoshop and design tips. Designer Shout Out on Design by Firgs

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  • Free cformsII stylesheet

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    I work with wordpress tonnes and most sites I build need a contact form of some sort. My default plugin for forms on wordpress is cformsII. My only real complaint with the plugin is that the stock stylesheet is huge and a bear to work with. To solve that problem I created my own and…

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  • Blog Designer Interview

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    I was recently interviewed by @kellymccausey of Blog Designer News. Click the link below to listen to the short interview and check out Blog Designer News. Interview.

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  • Rails Resources

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    Today is a round up of resources for learning Ruby on Rails. Many of these were given to me by Miles at coderpath and the guys at FV.rb. Working with Rails a site for all of those that are involved with Ruby on Rails. There is a cool ranking system that encourages you to participate…

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  • New Business Card

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    I recently redesigned my portfolio site and also redesigned my branding. Today I just wanted to show off my new business card. Love to hear feedback and see links to anyone else’s card.

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  • Your Clients Best Interest

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    When clients come to you to do a job they do it with the belief that you are the best person they can find for the job. Often if we are honest with ourselves we are not the best person for the whole job. With very few exceptions there is always someone better at user…

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  • Web Designer Needed: Don’t Apply if you use Dreamweaver

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    We’ve all seen job adds like the title. One that bascially discounts you as a coder on the basis of your tool of choice. Once that basically says “real web designers/developers don’t use Dreamweaver.” I do use Dreamweaver. Oh yeah I also use Notepad++ and Textwrangler. I have tried coda (great by the way) and…

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  • Becoming an iPhone Developer

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    Although I have been an Apple developer for a while I haven’t done anything as far as learning how to code for OSX and I am not an iPhone Developer. Becoming an iPhone developer is actually an easy process. Just sign into your ADC account a sign up. There are 3 options for membership when…

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  • CSS Inspections Launched

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    I recently launched CSS Inspections a website for a home inspector named Greg McHale located in the Durham Region of Ontario. This was a great project full of some simple and fun wordpress and jQuery trickery. Check out the contact form on the sidebar that unwinds and stays open until you have completed the form…

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