Guest Speaking Today

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

I am visiting my alma mater this evening to speak to the Interactive Digital Media majors who are preparing to graduate, so I will not have time to write Thursday’s post Tuesday and Thursday’s post will come on Wednesday. This is going to be fun!
I suspect some of the questions will be:

How much do you [...]

Essential Reading for Future Web Designers & Developers

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

“It’s back to school time!” blares every tacky, family-oriented commercial. And so it is.
Real Hackers don’t use CSS a walk through the design process, from tables and frames to CSS.
Getting Things Done When You’re Only a Grunt or, cutting through the stupid B.S. in office politics/bad group projects so you don’t get dragged down with [...]

Kaizen: Gardiner Angus Ranch

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

I would like to preface this project with a short reflection. The Gardiners are nice people. They are always polite, like many of our clients. And yet, what truly makes them stand out from our other clients is their ability to trust.
When a new customer comes to us and asks for a new web [...]

Tools of the Trade

Friday, July 20th, 2007

A list of my favorite software tools I work with every day. While most people will expect the usual suspects, [I certainly will not deny the usefulness of Adobe's Web Premium CS3] these are the real gems [and pleasantly surprising work horses] that help me move gracefully through a project during crunch time:

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Adobe AIR Beta Released!

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Once code named Apollo, this project has been unveiled to the developing community and will be officially announced tomorrow. Download it here.
What is the big deal about AIR? The Adobe website defines it as “a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash, Adobe [...]