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Alex Chousmith

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14 Days of jQuery : Celebrating Goodness

jQuery is a wonder-filled javascript library that is seemingly everywhere these days: Google, Dell, BofA, MLB, Digg, NBC, CBS, Netflix, Technorati, Mozilla.org, Wordpress, Drupal, and most every site we've worked on for a few years now. In celebration of the upcoming release of jQuery v1.4, the developers are showcasing 14 Days of jQuery over at jquery14.com. The site promises "code releases, project-related updates, and jQuery UI goodness", plus "videos over the 14 days with talks and tutorials relating the jQuery…
January 12, 2010
Marketing

Careercast ranks 200 jobs from Best to Worst for 2010 : Web Developer #15

How does Jobs Rated determine which professions rank better than others? Data on each job is broken down into five key categories: Physical Demands, Work Environment, Income, Stress and Hiring Outlook. Jobs receive a score in each individual category, and when these are added together, the career with the best overall score is ranked 1st, while the one with the worst overall score is ranked 200th. So "Web Developer" got #15. I didn't see "Web Designer" or "Project Manager" on…
January 6, 2010
DevelopmentMarketing

Hello WordPress 2.9.1, Bye Bye Headspace2, Hello All in One SEO Pack

In the process of posting that last post, I upgraded to Wordpress 2.9.1. 2.9.1 is said to fix a few minor issues like fixing a Core editor bug in Safari, and improving some of the nice image editing functionality that came with 2.9 itself. But what I didn't count on was it interacting with the SEO plugin Headspace2 that we had installed, to totally break javascript in the Wordpress backend... (more…)
January 5, 2010
CultureMarketing

The Dark Side of the Moon

Just in time for people everywhere to cash in holiday iTunes gift cards, or maybe just because they felt like it, The Flaming Lips have teamed up with Stardeath and White Dwarfs, plus help from the man himself Henry Rollins, and Peaches, to recreate an epic: The Dark Side of the Moon. Yes, to summarize key words in that sentence : The Flaming Lips, Henry Rollins, The Dark Side of the Moon. Happy 2010.
January 5, 2010
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

Our Work updated with two more recent projects

Yesterday, Craig was able to bust out some last minute excellence in creating slides to showcase two more of our recent projects. The first one up there is the Wear In The World site we built for Adidas Golf. I had already posted here over a month ago when the site first launched, but now we can really highlight some of the innovative design and development that really makes us proud. (more…)
December 24, 2009