I was happy to come across a tweet from @WPwatercooler the other day announcing a new starter theme produced by Zeek Interactive that incorporates ZURB Foundation. This is something that I’ve thought would be interesting to do, but I haven’t gotten around to trying to do it myself. I have only ever dealt with child themes, but have known […]
AFL 2015 – Round 03 – Bulldogs vs Hawthorn
Well, that wasn’t exactly unexpected… Was it? Round 3 saw a matchup with the 2014 premiers, and to be honest, watching it brought back a lot of 2014 memories. Targets were missed – by hand and foot, we seemed to have lost the few split seconds that we had gained in the first couple of […]
AFL 2015 – Round 01- Bulldogs vs WCE
I don’t normally delve into football posts, but there’s something about my beloved Bulldogs this year that has me very excited. So I’ve decided to capture some of my thoughts in a post here. I may continue this throughout the year consistently, but I also may not. We’ll see where it goes. Round one snuck […]
SeeThisSpot – March update (I love Node.js)
A couple of weeks after starting my remake of SeeThisSpot.com, and I think I can say that I’m so so so happy that I’ve done it, and am really excited about how it’s going to turn out. The original see this spot was written in PHP, using the Cake framework, which was 100% new to […]
Deploying a Node.js project with ZURB Foundation to Heroku
So many new things happening! Pretty stoked that I managed to get ZURB’s Foundation working on my Node.js application, my next step was to get the app deployed to Heroku. Until this point I’d only ever deployed a project to Heroku by following and mimicking the ‘Getting Started‘ tutorial. My seethisspot project was already very […]
Using ZURB’s Foundation 5 in a Node.js project
Scouring the Internets for hours on end, I found it incredibly difficult to find a solid example of somebody using ZURB’s fabulous Foundation 5 in a Node.js project. Could it even be done? Do I really have to install ruby? What’s going on? What is Grunt anyway? Of everything I found that looked semi-helpful, I […]
Mac file system space
My wife’s 5 year old Macbook is running like a new machine thanks to an SSD and a RAM upgrade over last summer. It is, however, no stranger to mysterious ‘storage’ issues and hard drive space disappearing for no apparent reason. My wife uses Photoshop a lot, and routinely has extremely large files open (>2GB), this […]
2015 is the road to recovery
As my last post explains, SeeThisSpot did not turn out to be what I wanted it to be. Functionally, it was close, but I found I wasn’t anywhere near as proud of what I produced as I wanted to be, and now I find myself needing to work out why that is exactly. I want […]
SeeThisSpot – An evaluation
Software development is a funny thing. When I started SeeThisSpot.com, all I was looking for was a playground for me to show off my skills, learn new skills, and generally have something to hang my hat on. So what happened? Somewhere along the line I got lost. What I imagined: Responsive design High performance using the latest technology […]