Something I’ve found myself doing a lot of lately is creating websites where I want a single image as the entire page background. All of the page content sits on top, and the image never moves, no matter how much content scrolls down the page. I need it to be responsive and always stay centered, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]