I finally got around to transferring the images from my humble cellphone to my computer. I don’t use the camera on my phone very often (I’m kind of a photo snob) and I haven’t ever transferred the images off of my phone – so I don’t really remember taking half of them.

If you’ve even been to the Lift office you might remember seeing a chalkboard ...

There are “trouble spots” in all projects. These are the parts of the project that aren’t fully thought out, lack documentation or in general are just vague. In the programming world, they are also the parts of the project that you or your team doesn’t have experience developing or that the solution is unknown. I can’t tell you the number of projects I’ve been in where ...

“Don’t copy your competitors… you end up with their bad ideas.”

When we start a project, we usually do some kind of competitive analysis to get our bearings on the client’s place in the market. The idea with this exercise is not to come up with a list of elements to copy, but to understand the world in where our client does business. Sometimes in conjunction with this ...

If you asked anyone in the office what their least favorite Inflight module was, the answer would be a resounding “Images”.

It’s kind of weird, really – we have this totally awesome photo management app, and the piece of our CMS that’s most neglected/disliked is the one that deals with images.

At any rate, no one really liked images – but we all realized that they had to stay ...

I’m told that this story originally comes from Art and Fear:

On opening day, the ceramics teacher announced that he would be dividing the class into two groups: group A would be graded solely on the quality of the work that they produced, while group B would be graded based on the quantity.

The teacher had planned a simple grading system: on the final day of class, he would ...

I Found this online Grid Designer tool a little while back and it has proved to be very useful for determining the grid size in layouts.

Alternatively you can print your own grid paper for old fashioned drawing

Often when I meet with clients to discuss a technology project, either ongoing or new work, we have to discuss a problem (or rather the opportunity to do better) and then we try to come up with an answer or solutions. We brain-storm, discuss, collaborate and sometimes argue to get to something we can both imagine would be the solution.

While this process works well, it really depends on a ...

“It would be awesome if saving a page also made you toast”, I will think as I start to write the code involved in wiring up a toaster.

As a developer, I have a lot of power over what features get built or not built, and how exactly they function.

One of the results of being in this position is that features for things sometimes end up getting done as ...

I’m always researching the intricacies of different browsers. It’s my job to know their quirks and learn the techniques being used to keep them all in line.

One of the most frustrating things I run into working with CSS is the fact that there are so many new features in CSS3 (and even CSS2) that is not supported in all browsers. For example, pseudo classes are infinitely powerful ...

I’m in the Denver airport right now en route to Austin for SXSW. lift was lucky enough to be asked to be a part of Digital Alberta’s delegation that is providing an Alberta presence at the interactive conference.

I’ll be spending the next four days taking in workshops, mingling and talking about lift and Parade.