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Google+ amasses audience

On Thursday, Jan. 19, Google and CEO Larry Page released a statement addressing Google’s fourth quarter results and 2011 fiscal year recap. At the outset, Page made a seemingly innocuous, but potentially deeply insightful comment: “I am super excited about the growth of Android, Gmail, and Google+, which now has 90 million users globally – well over double what I announced just three months ago.”

Ninety million users?! On Google+?! What?! Read more…

GuideGuide

Those of us who use Photoshop on a daily basis (literally) know how frustrating using the guide system can be. Guides are used to mark certain dimensions and points of alignment within a photoshop file. I use guides for web design to mark where a content area begins and ends and to align elements in a design. The issue with guides is that they don’t sit exactly where they should. If I place a guide at 250 pixels (using the ruler), it actually looks like I’ve placed it a pixel or two to the left of the 250 pixel mark. What’s the point of using guides if they can’t accurately depict where you’ve placed them! Read more…

Ruby on Rails functionality within WordPress using Wordless

In general, I absolutely love PHP. It’s flexible, can be object-oriented and is generally easy to learn. Even more, I love that it opens up the world of WordPress. However, I often get frustrated when I see new technologies like Haml and Sass popup that simply don’t integrate well with PHP.

Recently, a friend brought the new Wordless plugin to my attention. It’s a typical WordPress plugin that, using Ruby, enhances your toolset for creating themes by integrating some of those aforementioned technologies (Haml, Sass, Compass and Coffeescript), restructuring the theme’s organization and adding some great new helper functions. Read more…