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Excerpt from “Confessions of a Template Whore”

Generally that problem is that they don’t have a website, but sometimes it’s that they don’t have a website and don’t have any budget either…Solving both of those problems at the the same time is my job.

I’m all for keeping costs down and what a great way to defend the use of templates [...]

Designing for thine self

This is a topic I absolutely can’t keep to myself any longer. You’re a web designer and you rock the socks off client work and even stuff for friends and family. But when it comes to designing something for yourself, for example, your freelance businesses website, you go completely blank. It’s as if creative block [...]

5 Things Your Users Don’t Care to Hear

Software developers often have to wear multiple hats in the midst of time constraints, small teams and lack of support manpower. So it’s no secret that software developers naturally aren’t very good at providing support to users. As one who has been on both sides of the fence, it only makes to describe what users [...]

Where I talk about Typekit

If you have ever cared about designing a website, typography has always been an itch rarely scratched considering the support provided both legacy and modern browsers. But that is all changing right in front our eyes with such tools as Typekit and Kernest. Today I will talk about Typekit and why it’s not quite the [...]

It’s never the camera. Kind of.

Taking pictures is easy until you actually want to communicate something specific. Chasing artistic value brings more variables into the equation more so than taking a snap of your friends at the beach. Interpreting a moment or a scene for the purpose of communicating is most of the battle. The settings of your camera are [...]

Top Blackberry Twitter App Roundup

It was only a few months ago that twitter apps for the blackberry platform seemed almost nonexistent. TwitterBerry was accessible and the only app that was both active and somewhat feature rich (but not quite the full package most are looking for). Fast forward and now there is a sort of blackberry twitter client war [...]

Wordpress for Blackberry

This morning I saw a status update come across my twitter stream stating that there is a Wordpress for Blackberry app rolling around in beta. Its not just any BB app, its by the guys who built wordpress itself. So you know its quality.

Needless to say, I am posting this from my Blackberry 8300 and [...]

Changes in scenery

Tonight I moved my “office” from the basement of my home to the dining room upstairs where my wife’s computer desk also resides. I’m finding it more important to be closer to “action” of my home. But the open door for distractions is ever so greater as I’m now pitted against a television, people coming [...]

Story behind My Weekend App

It’s essentially a small hobby project I like to work on in my free time (hence Kindmange). My Weekend App was an excuse to really sit down and learn the finer aspects of Ruby and Rails. In past job and project experiences, my knowledge of Ruby and Rails only went as far as my design [...]

Constraints and beauties of writing

Writing for me is enjoyable. It’s one of the few things, that if I don’t do it enough, everything in my life just seems off and unfamiliar. Writing is my vice. But what I love about writing is it’s constraints.

Being able to paint a picture with words is a beautiful process of elimination, engineering and [...]