• Projects and Development

    Lately, I’ve been developing in my spare time. While nothing too exciting has come out of it yet, it’s been a great personal experience for me. I’ve seen people use my web apps, which made me feel more happy then I had realized I would, and renewed my urge to expand on features, improve the …

  • Developing for emails, or stepping back in time

    (Image is from the NCIX email campaigns, which are pretty much the only ones I want to be subscribed to) Sending email is both simple in terms of front end code, and so very frustrating in other ways. Allow me to elaborate. The Simple: Your code won’t have any fancy parts to it, say goodbye …

  • Adobe Air, or how I learned to stop fearing desktop apps

    Recently I’ve been playing with Adobe’s AIR environment, with quite a bit of success. For anyone unfamiliar with AIR, it’s a compiled environment down to a .swf file, that can run web languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) in a desktop environment or on-line. Pretty neat eh? Well, I think so at any rate. Lately I’ve been …

  • HTML5 and Gecko 1.9.2

    While building a website awhile ago, I learned an important lesson about HTML5 compatibility, and Firefox. Now one might ask, Firefox? Surely you’re going to complain about IE the infamous browser of non-standards and special work arounds? Simply mention the name IE6 to any web developer to watch them spit in anger and frustration. However, …