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A Web Developer in Winnipeg

  • Winnipeg is a Freelance Town

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    After being laid-off from my job as an interaction designer at Think Shift earlier this year, I exchanged some emo IMs with a good friend and former-Winnipegger. I told him that I was looking at getting into freelance full-time, to which he replied “Winnipeg is a freelance town.” He was right. I’ve spent the majority […] Continue Reading

  • The One Where I Read The Mule Blog

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    I stumbled across the Mule Design blog yesterday. It’s good. I had a minor epiphany (is there a word for that?) when I read this: When a client says, “I don’t like green”, most designers translate the sentence into “You must change the green.” But no one asked you to, did they? They merely made […] Continue Reading

  • Hyper-local Weather Forecasts

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    The future is here. Today the Weather Network rolled out “PointCast” a service developed in house (over the past 15 years!) that provides 1-km forecast and weather data. That’s a screenshot of my weather at home vs the “Winnipeg” weather station (likely) 10km away at The Forks. As you can see, it’s quite different. From […] Continue Reading

  • My Overly Simplified Take on Responsive Design

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    31% of American adults who have cell phones use their phones for the majority of their Internet access. ~ via LukeW The case for responsive web design is a no-brainer! Only a few years ago stake-holders would absolutely insist on IE6 compatibility with much much smaller user-base. 2.5% or higher was the threshold I’d commonly […] Continue Reading

  • Twitter Conversation Observation

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    I started listening to podcasts right around the same time twitter was starting to gain a following among über -nerds. I can’t remember which came first. Doesn’t matter. At the time, it was not uncommon for an every nerd podcast to be dominated by twitter talk, for weeks on end. With twitter’s recent “new guideline” […] Continue Reading