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Web Techniques: Launch a WordPress Site (Start to Finish)
In the many years I have been a website developer, I have learned many things. Some to make my job easier, but also process. In this article, I will give…
Web Techniques: Blocking
A common duty of a front end developer is to take designs and translate them to code. When you are learning web application development, it can be intimidating to even…
The Anatomy of Good Visualization
What makes for a good visualization? There are a number of components that are necessary for a visualization to be valuable. Just having a line (series item) represent some segment…
Semantic Color Choices For Visualizations
Semantic. What does that mean? With regards to technology, when something is semantic it describes or identifies itself. When you are talking code, a tag may describe itself, such as…
A new era of intelligent, lightweight ‘dashboards’
Dashboard development has become novel in the last 5 years. Everyone has a dashboard that is branded “easy”, “intuitive” or “custom”. I have interactions with clients and the number one…
Why is web color RGB and not RYB?
So, being that my college degree is an art degree I thought I would blog about a question I received tonight while teaching at the Austin Coding Academy. A student…
Stopwords in multiple languages
If you build data visualizations you have run into the issues of useless words destroying the value of your display. You should find a way to implement these “stopwords” into…
Terminal Hack: Show path in finder title bar
When you dig a few levels deep into the Finder, you may lose your path. Sure, you could enable the Path bar by going to View > Show Path Bar,…
The reality mining wave is coming…
If you use the internet, you know that everything you do is tracked. Everything from personal interactions with your friends and family, items you purchase, items you look at while…