Design & Development Blog

Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
Feb 2
2009

DRM Free iTunes

I've never been much of a fan of purchasing music off of iTunes because of, and only because of, the DRM issue. Thankfully the…
Jan 23
2009

What’s wrong with RSS

What's right with RSS Maybe I should start out by mentioning what's right about RSS. After all, for those who have adopted the technology,…
Jan 21
2009

Rethinking Flickr and MobileMe

Cause I still haven't found what I'm looking for It's been an on-again off-again search for me, but Dan Benjamin's article Is Flickr Still…
Jan 20
2009

Historic Day

What a difference 8 years make. 8 years ago, I and much of the country was feeling down and depressed and fearful of the…
Dec 29
2008

Harvest feature updates before end of ’08

The holiday season was not just for egg nog quaffing and loitering under the mistletoe for the folks over at Iridesco. They managed to…
Dec 11
2008

Web design business tools

How SD gets the day to day business done. When asked what I do for a living, my response is generally, "I'm a web…
Dec 5
2008

Giving MarsEdit a test drive

I find that the WordPress Admin window for adding a new post is much too small. Yes, I know you can make it bigger…
Nov 30
2008

An open letter to Iridesco

Dear Iridesco, Let me start by saying that I love Harvest. It has saved me a ton of time in billing for projects and…
Nov 19
2008

Dropping future support for IE6

Checking the stats for spigotdesign.com/ today revealed that less than 10% of the visitors here are using Internet Explorer 6. This is great news!…
Oct 31
2008

New Spigot Design logo unveiled

While not a new logo per se, we're proud to announce a cleaner, smoother version of our logo. The old version was drawn in…