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 […]
2015 Calgary Icebreaker site is LIVE!
For anyone that knew me around the time I was putting together the 2014 Calgary Icebreaker site, you’d know that it was a pretty stressful time. I was developing a new site completely from scratch, with the intention of having the most user customizable site in the world. Time constraints and learning curves soon put […]
SeeThisSpot – Improvements #1
The last couple of weeks have seen me get back into the groove in terms of making updates to SeeThisSpot.com, and I have to say I’m a little excited about it! The single biggest improvement I could make is to remove the requirement to log in to Instagram in order to do a search. Removing […]
SeeThisSpot is LIVE!!!
SeeThisSpot.com is the best way to search Instagram for photos in your current location. My latest little side project is officially live, and I must say I’m pretty proud. This is the first time I’ve taken an idea from scratch and really followed through on making it happen. There’s a glimmer of hope that this […]
Processing Twitter images with JavaScript
This question came up on Stack Overflow, which I liked the look of. I’ve been doing Selenium development in .NET framework for work recently, but thought I’d give this JS based question a crack. When I got down to it, I realised that it’s very similar, and the JS is pretty easy to process. So […]