This weekend I took some time to practice mocking up an application. Afterall, practice makes perfect. I first started out with a normal notebook and pencil. It was going pretty great until the little things started getting to me. First I suck at drawing straight lines. I do well for…
Back Story Most websites come in two flavors: secured or unsecured. So what does that mean? Have you ever been to a site and in the address bar you see something like this: Unsecured Example And on the other hand you see sites like this: Secured The second one makes…
Warning: Entry gets a little techy. The Ghost Blog Platform (the engine running this blog) runs on NodeJS and is relatively new -- so it makes us beg for more when it comes to integration with other services like Twitter, Google, FaceBook, etc. But slowly I'm looking around and finding…
So on this road to staying relevant -- I popped open Illustrator and did some vector drawings -- these are my first two and was an amazing learning curve. iMac Vector My iMac represents a big part of me -- it's my powerhouse of getting things done. So it's fitting…
I feel terrible at the moment -- I mean I'm not dying or anything but I just don't feel comfortable. Throats a little itchy and got a runny nose-ish and maybe a little cough here and there. Yeah yeah other people got it worse -- but other people also got…
New-Old Experience and Fate I recently was asked to do some freelance work by a coworker. I hadn't done any freelance work officially for a few years but as fate would have it. It's a little strange though -- had my coworker asked me a or two ago -- I…