Thinking about my dad, and one of my favorite stories about him. I was about 18. We owned a kennel. One morning my dad came in from doing the morning kennel rounds with a deeply furrowed brow. Dad (in his thick Czech accent): ‘You know… the strangest thing just happened.’ ‘I was opening up the …
Front-end development is full of challenges – changing design trends, browser idiosyncrasies, client demands, and ever-evolving web standards to name a few. Over the last few years though, a new challenge has emerged. Which development stack should you choose? Once upon a time, front end development didn’t really have a “dev stack.” You had markup …
(Originally posted on ThinkShout.com) It’s November 2015, and Drupal.org is rolling out Drupal 8 release candidates! Heck, Drupal 8 is coming out this week. For many devs, that means we need to figure out how to install, sync, and set up a site theme. Here at ThinkShout, learning is part of the job – we …
When I was very young, I had a dear friend whose name was Frank. He was a year or two older than me, but we were like brothers. We even did a blood brother ceremony during a sleepover when we were… 7? 8? It’s hard to remember. Which is to say, we were as close …
Wash 6 plump, firm, smooth-skinned Jalapenos or other similar peppers, then cut them in half lengthwise. Remove ribs and seeds. You might want to wear rubber gloves for this! For a gas stove, use metal tongs and cook the Jalapenos skin-side down over a medium flame until well blackened. For an electric stove, set a …
The past few weeks have been a bit of a blur. My good lady wife Rachel and I decided last year that we should move to Portland (PDX) from Raleigh-Durham (RDU) for several excellent reasons, to wit: The weather in RDU is overbearingly hot and sweaty in the Summer, a period that spans Apr-Oct, roughly. …
All in all, an excellent year. Did the Run Free marathon in Feb with excellent friends. Finished the house renovations. Really dug in at work and loved it. Did the font-end development for several cool websites, and blogged about it. Went to Berlin with my Good Lady Wife and had a lovely time. Successfully avoided most …
A little over a year ago, I switched from PC-based front end development, to Apple/Mac based development. I had been doing Mac and PC desktop support in my previous job, so I was used to OSX, the Mac OS. However, the switch also required me to upgrade the tools I use on a daily basis, …
Web development is a great field to work in for a lot of reasons, but for me the best reason is the variety. One day you’ll be adding a guest editor to a high-volume cooking website, the next day you’re adjusting the responsive menu on a drug-culture magazine, and the day after that you’ll be tweaking the …
One of our flagship AOL client sites, KitchenDaily.com decided that they wanted Ashe Avenue to implement a responsive solution. We’ve been rolling out more responsive sites lately (including AsheAve 2.5) so we were excited to get this excellent site working smoothly on devices of unusual sizes.