I was migrating an e-commerce store the other day and I downloaded a directory of product images that were heavily nested in some nonsensical pattern of subfolders. The arbitrary and confusing subfolder system made no sense to the new method of hosting the product images, and made adding the image file list to the new [...]
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How To Take a Screenshot in Mac OSX (Snow Leopard +)
I know I’m not covering any new territory here, but hey, sometimes I forget myself, so I putting my personal notes public. Take that public. Screenshots are a web guy’s best friend. Well maybe not best… but they’re useful. If you’re running a Mac, here’s a quick cheat sheet for the OSX screenshot hot keys. [...]
Secret Tricks of Designing & Debugging Website Layouts With Chrome’s Inspect Element.
Almost a year ago, I started transitioning away from using Firefox as my primary browser and started using Chrome. The speed and interface lured me in. In general, I largely embrace what Google’s working on when it comes to software and the cloud. However, as most web guys (and gals) know, Firefox has some features [...]
The Pomodoro Technique: Controlling My Personal Sh!tfit of Stuff.
David Allen’s Getting Things Done is a classic system (shorthand: GTD) for piling up all the things you have to fill your day with and sorting them out in a way that might actually get what needs to get done, done. I like many things about the GTD model. Specifically: Brain dumping all tasks into [...]
Microsoft to Silently Upgrade all Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users to the Latest Version of Internet Explorer
So Slashdot brought me a sexy little tidbit today. It seems like Microsoft has decided to silently update their whole user base to the latest and “greatest” IE9. While there’s still apparently a handful of people who can opt out of the upgrade with special software, this is a welcome acknowledgment from Redmond, which it [...]
Sublime Text 2 Is Pushing Textmate Out Of My Toolbox.
Like many Mac-based developers and coders, I’ve got a couple standards in my toolbox. Mostly I use Coda to write code, but there’s sometimes that using Coda for simple changes or regular text files is like hunting squirrels with an uzi. For years I’ve been using Textmate, which is without a doubt, a great editor [...]
Boning Up On HTML5
HTML5 is the latest movement in development for the web. HTML5 isn’t exactly a single markup language for which support can be checked for like previous incarnations of HTML, but a collection of several powerful additions, which can. Functionality like video, geolocation and local storage in an HTML4 world needed to be handled with third [...]
What Is An Endowment?
Endowments are powerful financial tools that are often overlooked by small non-profits. In simplest terms, an endowment is an investment vehicle. In an endowment fund, you can only spend the interest that the fund generates, not the principle that actually anchors the endowment. Usually, a low percentage of the generated interest (like 5%) is spent [...]
Organizing Your Virtual Documents
Do you know where everything on your machine is? If so, great, you’re one of the lucky few. Everyone around you however, would probably benefit from some structured education on how to effectively organize their file structure for maximum productivity. http://lifehacker.com/#!156196/geek-to-live–organizing-my-documents
SEO In A Post-Panda World
5 New Tactics For SEO Post-Panda: ” Now that Google has changed the game again, it’s a good time for a refresher on some of the new rules from the Big G.
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