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The Rollover, a Gallery Usability Issue?

Jeff — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:25:42 +0000

The Rollover, a Gallery Usability Issue?

Now I am a huge fan of Amazon and am always buying stuff from them. They are also not the only offender of what I consider to be a usability issue… A short time ago, I was trying to watch the Kindle video and (while it was playing) look at other parts of the page. [...]

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Emails and unsubscribing

Jeff — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:38:56 +0000

Emails and unsubscribing

Working in the digital space you tend to receive a lot of emails from various companies that you have done business with etc. There are many facets to a good email and the functionalities that go with it. This article deals with one critical function that two companies have implemented very differently: the unsubscribe… Adobe: [...]

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Change of Direction Part 2

Jeff — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:17:40 +0000

Change of Direction Part 2

In my previous post I spoke about how I was changing directions on this blog and in my career. I wanted to speak to each of the main areas that my career as a ‘Flash’ dev introduced me to. (The quotes are to denote that whilst my primary language was Flash/AS3, I did other dev [...]

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Change of Direction Part 1

Jeff — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:54:08 +0000

Change of Direction Part 1

Let me start off by saying that this post is overdue by a few years as I have been doing development outside of Flash as well as other Digital activities for a few years now but felt the need to write about my experiences gained over my short time working with it. Maybe this is [...]

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Details – Choosing the right element

Jeff — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:10:03 +0000

Details – Choosing the right element

Perhaps this shouldn’t be a blog post but rather an obligatory flame tweet about the injustice/mistreatment of the checkbox element. However, this really bothered me as it is such a silly mistake to make. (And on the home page no less?!) I had the pleasure to work for a designer that was very much an artist. Pixels mattered. Details [...]

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Down Under Tips for Expats

Jeff — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:19:04 +0000

Down Under Tips for Expats

Here is a short list of things that might be helpful to those who have moved or are going to move to AU/NZ. As I think of more I will add them… Sports: Lets face it, the only sport that you will miss while being overseas is the NFL. (Unless you become a rugby fan [...]

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Lotus Notes Errors

Jeff — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:17:24 +0000

Lotus Notes Errors

For better or for worse I have had to use Lotus Notes 6.5 for email, calendaring etc. I thought it would be fun to post pictures of some of the wonderful error messages I have seen. (I only started this collection about 6 months ago so I have probably missed out on some doozies.) In [...]

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Autocomplete in Codeigniter 2.1.0 and Eclipse pdt

Jeff — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:51:44 +0000

Autocomplete in Codeigniter 2.1.0 and Eclipse pdt

I have recently started working with Codeigniter for a few side projects and to help me stay up to date with php. I am using eclipse pdt as my ide. In order to get auto complete to work it is quite simple. (Note, these steps are the exact same for Aptana. Just adding a user [...]

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My Sponsored Child – Samson

Jeff — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:07:46 +0000

My Sponsored Child – Samson

While still working at World Vision USA a few members of my team had the opportunity to go over and meet my sponsored child. It was such a cool feeling to watch video footage of my team members interacting with him and his family. I hope I can make it over there some day and [...]

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My WordPress site was hacked, how can I recover?

Jeff — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:15:53 +0000

My WordPress site was hacked, how can I recover?

My blog went largely unused in the past few months which in turn caused me to be lazy about applying updates. (A big no no in the WordPress world.) Then a few weeks ago I got a wild hair to start writing again. Upon logging in I was greeted with this fun message: It turns [...]

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