From the desk of JLB...

Building custom content editor layouts in WordPress

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Custom Fields within WordPress are no secret.  There are hundreds of tutorials out there documenting how to easily automate them by simply adding a few lines to your functions.php file.  Continue reading »

iPhone’s are the next graphic designer.

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iPhone’s are extraordinary but they seem to be encroaching on my job. An iPhone owner has access to hundreds of really creative apps that are made for photography or basic graphic design needs. Hipstamatic and Instagram are two great examples of apps that have almost completely removed the need for post production photo editing.

Well, now you don’t need to worry about designing your next holiday card! Cartolina Post is an iPhone app that allows you to take a photo, insert it into one of several postcard templates and mail it out…all from your phone. See what I mean??

Four Degrees of Separation

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New York TimesAccording to The New York Times, a new study released this week by Facebook indicates that the average number of acquaintances (“friends”) on Facebook separating any two people around the world is 4.74. Continue reading »

We Are Suckers For Cycles

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It’s true. We hate change, we love change and then we hate it again. Who knew that this principle rule could spill into the color of our iPhone? Apple did.

Came across this Slate article outlining Apple’s knack for teasing us with with its small slice of the color wheel. White? Black? Chrome? White again? You love it.

 

Easy Ruby on Rails OS X upgrade

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Recently, I’ve been feeling a bit boxed-in by the web technologies that I’m most familiar with (i.e. html & css, php & mysql, javascript).  After a lengthy Ruby discussion with a developer friend, I decided that Ruby on Rails would be perhaps be a good solution to be desire to branch out.  However, when I tried installing the latest versions of both Ruby and Rails for OS X, I ran into error after error.

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