Odds & Sods

Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
March 27, 2014

On Blogging and Self Publishing

Since the day we began building websites on content management systems we've encouraged our clients to blog; To write about things that might interest…
March 25, 2014

Codekit 2.0, WordPress, and MAMP

I upgraded to Codekit 2.0 a few days ago and so far it's great. I thought the browser refresh feature was broken but it…
March 19, 2014

Tesla, and Why Buying A Car Is So Awful

With the recent news about New Jersey kicking Tesla out of their state, here's an apt rebroadcast of a Planet Money podcast: Why Buying…
March 17, 2014

Hide title attribute on hover, but don’t remove

A client of ours uses PrettyPhoto to show galleries of artwork and they recently requested that we change up the way in which the…
March 10, 2014

Dropbox: Moving a shared folder

I recently reorganized our Dropbox file structure and ran into an issue with shared folders no longer being shared. That prompted me to Google:…
March 7, 2014

@font-face not rendering in Chrome

Since launching the latest version of Spigot last week there has been an intermittent issue with our @font-face fonts not rendering (We serve web…
November 8, 2013

Real Salt Lake

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1DJ008t9Y] We took the kids to see Real Salt Lake defeat LA Galaxy at Rio Tinto last night. It was an exciting match and…
November 6, 2013

Elegant Gentleman’s Animated Paintings

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-7IV2qryiQ&w=650] This is a bit different than the illustrated videos I usually post, but it was simply too good not to share.
November 5, 2013

What’s your Style?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhjYZp6DENE&w=650] Even though I'm not a fan of the mustache, I can certainly support what movember.com stands for. And awesomely illustrated videos.
November 5, 2013

What CSS Measurements to Use When

Here's a great list of general CSS measurement unit guidelines from Dudley Storey. http://demosthenes.info/blog/775/Which-CSS-Measurements-To-Use-When