Speaking at Humber College!
On November 8th I’ll be speaking at Humber College on why working on the web is the best job ever. I’ll also be doing a Dreamweaver CC workshop! Because I want to be the most helpful person ever I am …...
View ArticleTeacher for a day
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 was a pretty cool experience, and on which I learned a...
View ArticleResponsive Design Is
This week I was interviewed by Responsive Web Design Is. I talked a bit about the recent BlackBerry Blogs responsive refresh. You can read it here!...
View ArticleMoney
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, agencies and companies are usually don’t want me to work indefinitely on...
View ArticleDev memories 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 years (heck, I’ve been a key player on the launch 7 sites in the last …...
View ArticleFaux-forking Bootstrap Grids
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 been the grid system out of Bootstrap. Out of the box it doesn’t do...
View ArticleBook Editor: RESS Essentials
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 been working on for a few years now; so I was keen to...
View ArticleWeb Inspecting Source!
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 inspect the actual code! In this shot you can see I’ve changed the font on...
View ArticleInstant Click: Optimistic Preload
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 speed: http://instantclick.io/ If your site has device...
View ArticleAdding a Time Stamp to preprocessed stylesheets
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 a lot of other front end devs on a very large project. The...
View ArticleAnnual Troll Day
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 and get it out of our systems. Perhaps this will bring us all to a …...
View ArticleThe best game you didn’t realize is installed on your phone
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 as an awesome solo or group game. I thought it was a pretty fun...
View ArticleFalling in love with CodePen
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 wanting to reduce the obstacles between the idea and...
View ArticleFarewell to Thrillworks
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 an amazing team. I left on good terms, and am excited to be starting a …...
View ArticleDesigner vs. Terminal
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 I had just read an article in .net Magazine about Sass. “I’d like to give …...
View ArticleASCII Art in Sublime
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 had no idea that this had caught on or made so much...
View ArticleBuild it yourself.
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 convinced the best thing you could do to foster this skill is build your...
View ArticleRomania.
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 Oakville). We’re doing a one week Youth Camp. It’s going to be a lot of … Continue...
View ArticleB+
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 the speeder who wants pixels public as soon as...
View ArticlePersuade
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 point, then go into a narrative where I’m explaining a hypothetical...
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