Posts by Bryan Hoffman
Blood Moon Eclipse
I’m an admitted space nerd. I love anything doing with space, NASA, or tiny green men. And I miss the Space Shuttle terribly. So the opportunity to see a rare Blood Moon eclipse wasn’t to be missed. I even got the kids up at 1:30am to have a look. It was pretty spectacular, equally as…
Read MoreResponsive Web Design
We first began experimenting with responsive design techniques way back in 2011, but have yet to sit down and define what it is, and more importantly, what it means to us. So let’s do that. The Technical Explanation of Responsive Web Design Let’s start with what Wikipedia thinks Responsive Web Design is: Responsive Web Design (RWD)…
Read MoreThe Heartbleed OpenSSL Bug
On Monday, security researchers announced a security flaw in OpenSSL, the defacto standard in securing data on the internet. NPR reported about it this morning, have a listen to their report: I host with you, is my site safe? To all of our Cinch Hosting clients, we want to reassure you that your website is…
Read MoreSpigot Responsive Design Manifesto
Responsive Web Design is the philosophy of maximizing the experience of both the website visitor, and the website owner.
Read MoreOpening Day
While I don’t think Opening Day should be a national holiday, I do say a quiet thank you to the heavens that the day has come. Happy Opening Day, and may the Twins make it to October and beyond. Or at least not embarrass the crap out of me again. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/31705013″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″…
Read MoreOn 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 their clientele in order to engage a community and drive traffic to their sites. Usually we suggest these sections be labeled a ‘blog’ – in the name of calling something what…
Read MoreCodekit 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 turns out I was just doing it wrong. If you’ve used Codekit 1.x you’ll know that it refreshed what ever browser you had open and in front at the time. The…
Read MoreTesla, 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 a Car is so Awful: I didn’t realize the auto dealership industry was so well protected. It would be great to see this changed, but I wonder how Tesla customers feel…
Read MoreHide 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 artwork meta information were displayed. This required that the data be moved to the title attribute of the link, which worked surprisingly well. It unfortunately also added an illegible, undesirable, and…
Read MoreDropbox: 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: Can I rename or move a shared folder? From Dropbox: You can rename or move your shared folders just like you would any other folder on your hard drive or via…
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