HTML Prototyping Using Handlebars.js

At Josephmark I do a lot of HTML prototyping. When the designers want to know what’s possible or see how a CSS3 animation could work prototyping happens. While prototyping can be at times challenging it’s both fun and rewarding when you manage to pull of the seemingly impossible. When we did some HTML prototyping for [...]

Tumblr is not worth one billion dollars

Rumours are flying around that Yahoo! is in talks to buy the hipster blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion dollars and there are reports from inside sources that Tumblr deems the 1.1 billion price tag to be to low. Are Tumblr drunk for thinking they’re worth such a large amount of money when apparently they’ve [...]

Introducing Preigniter: Yet Another Codeigniter Skeleton / Starting Base

All Codeigniter applications share a common trait: requiring essential third party libraries to do what most people need it to do in a more efficient and nicer way. While downloadable starter installs of Codeigniter are definitely not new, most are outdated and don’t include the kind of libraries I require. I went a step further [...]

The Real Situation With Codeigniter Explained

Everyone seems to be speculating as to what the future of Codeigniter is and whether or not it’s dead, so I went directly to the source Ellislab and asked. Our of respect for the responder of my email, names will not be used as to not pass off any of the answers I received as the [...]

Display All Stickied Posts on Zendesk Web Portal Homepage

Recently whilst working with Zendesk (I’ve never used it before) I had to implement a fairly basic design that wanted to display all stickied posts on the homepage. While Zendesk offers this functionality out of the box, it only shows five at a time and requires you to paginate through via links (what is this [...]

The Day UX Design Died: Adobe Discontinues Fireworks Development

Most of us Fireworks users knew this day would eventually come. Fireworks although undeniably the only decent UX tool out there and only UX tool Adobe sells has been discontinued. Adobe haven’t cancelled it entirely, it’s just not getting new features and merely security fixes. But we all know eventually once people move on, Adobe [...]

Samsung Galaxy S4 (Australian Version) — Moving from iOS to Android: Review

After years of riding the iOS wagon, I’ve jumped off in search of greener pastures: Android. I’ve been quite happy with my iPhone’s for the last few years, but the Galaxy S4 really had me excited for a new phone and my contract was up with Telstra so I decided to upgrade to an S4. [...]

Adobe is Holding Back The Adoption of Linux

The talk of a Linux resurgence has been echo’d for many years now, but year after year it never comes true. While Linux does grow a tiny bit each year no doubt, it hasn’t achieved the commercial success of Windows or even Mac OS just yet and Adobe is mostly to blame. As a developer [...]

What It’s Really Like To Be A Developer

“Oh, you work with computers that must pay alright and be a great job“, as a developer or anyone who works in the I.T industry you’ll get this response a lot when you tell people you’re a developer and to a degree it’s somewhat true but being a developer isn’t the walk in the park [...]

Thinking of WordPress As a Framework Instead of Just a CMS

Once upon a time there was a blogging application called WordPress and after a few versions and a rabidl fanbase, WordPress expanded outwards. As the community improved it via plugins and themes, the direction WordPress started to head in was more of a content management oriented one. Now it’s time to start viewing WordPress for [...]