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…
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.
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…
Google Conversion Optimizer
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I attended a webinar on Google Conversion Optimizerrecently and had to write a summary for work that I thought I would share with everyone. I don’t profess to be an expert (that’s why I went) so if there are things I am missing let me know. What is the Conversion Optimizer? At it’s core the…
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…
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…
Side Projects Keep you Smart
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Most creatives work on side projects. Side projects keep us fresh they force us to learn new concepts or programming languages that just makes us better at our normal work. It can also open up new opportunities in our careers. Currently I have two new side projects. First I have been a registered Apple developer…
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…
News Round up: UI Design, Web fonts, Improve your language skills
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I haven’t done a link round up in a bit but there have been some awesome articles around lately so I’ll pass them on. The Little Things in UI Design First up is a great article on the little things in User Interface design from Smashing magazine. It really is the little things that make…
Google Custom Search
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I recently added google custom search (CSE) as an advanced search on a clients store. While the standard search engine provided decent results it does a very poor job of eliminating useless words (the, a…). Since Goolge does an awesome job of providing relevant search results and the CSE is free we jumped on board.…
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