Blog 
Articles, essays and tips & tricks on topics including web development, web education and Canadiana.
| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2010 | Open Data Ottawa | My trials and tribulations in creating the Ottawa Park data set and a little overview of what my Open Data Ottawa app will be. |
| Feb 11, 2010 | The Challenge: A No Flash Photographer’s Web Site | I was challenged to create a photography web site that doesn’t use Flash. Since there are so few, I felt it was my duty to prove to photographers they don’t need Flash. |
| Jan 8, 2010 | Save View Source | View source is an extremely important part of the web and one of the most important tools in my belt. But its existence is being threatened. Save View Source! |
| Dec 10, 2009 | Mercurial or Git? | Recently I made the decision. When SVN started to go wonky after my update to Snow Leopard, I knew I had to switch to a DVCS, but I didn’t know which to use. |
| Dec 3, 2009 | First Lab Project: Signature Pad | Signature Pad is a jQuery plugin for assisting in the creation of an HTML5 canvas based signature pad. Records the drawn signature in JSON for later regeneration. |
| Nov 20, 2009 | Mental Visualisations: Colour Association | One common trick to remember things is association. To continue my series in mental visualization I am going to discuss my mind’s automatic, subconscious association of colours and numbers. |
| Nov 19, 2009 | Mental Visualisations: The Year Loop | Do you ever think about how you think about the calendar year? Meta-thinking? We all have our little quirks about how we see and visualise things in our mind. The following is how the year passes in my mind. |
| Oct 29, 2009 | The Web is Not Microsoft Word | Rich text editors are all over the web, dumbing down users and proliferating WYSIWYG content. The following is a proposal for a semantic text editor, AKA a WYSIWYM editor. |
| Oct 13, 2009 | Canadians are Afraid to be Canadian, Online | I’m proud to be Canadian and I want the whole online world to know. The simplest way to scream ‘I am Canadian’, online, is to lease a .ca domain. So why do so many Canadians use .com instead of .ca? |
| Aug 27, 2009 | A Proposal for CLF 3.0 | All Canadian web developers have had a run-in with CLF and its frustrations. CLF 2.0 has a few issues—many less than CLF 1—that could be solved in the next version. |
| Jul 15, 2009 | Super Clear Redux | The :after clear method is great in situations where overflow: hidden doesn’t work… but it has one major issue: extra space. |
| Jul 8, 2009 | Evolution of a Personal Web-site | Covering the trials and tribulations of designing a web-site for myself, an overview of the new design and my inspirations. |
| Jul 3, 2009 | Obligatory Hello World Post | An introduction to my new site, a quick overview of what it’s all about and a sample of the exciting things to come. |
