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Odds & Sods

Codekit 2.0, WordPress, and MAMP

March 25, 2014

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…

Tesla, and Why Buying A Car Is So Awful

March 19, 2014

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…

Hide title attribute on hover, but don’t remove

March 17, 2014

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…

Dropbox: Moving a shared folder

March 10, 2014

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…

@font-face not rendering in Chrome

March 7, 2014

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 fonts from our servers). I initially shrugged it off as it…

Real Salt Lake

November 8, 2013

[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 the energy in the place was electric. This is the RSL…

Elegant Gentleman’s Animated Paintings

November 6, 2013

[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.

What’s your Style?

November 5, 2013

[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.

What CSS Measurements to Use When

November 5, 2013

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

Create custom search forms in WordPress

October 29, 2013

Are you looking to add a separate, custom search form in WordPress and limit it to say, a specific Custom Post Type? Here’s how I did it: 1. Create a search form template While you…