Lots of websites I work on (including my own) use some Flash elements. I try to avoid them as much as possible, but when it comes to embedding videos from sites like YouTube and Vimeo, you just can’t help it! And now these days, there are lots of overlapping elements used in pages, the most

I work on a Ruby on Rails app that is stored on git and deployed by Heroku. I’ve been added as a collaborator to the project, so I need to be able to pull from the repository to make changes. I’ve been working with subversion, so I’m used to using version control systems. Right now, I’m

I recently got assigned a project that involved using Ruby, a programming language that I always wanted to learn. This was a great opportunity for me to get right into it and gain some experience. Overall, it was a bit of an obstacle to figure out how to program Ruby in a Windows environment. I had

Lately with Facebook, I am seeing a big surge of connections from not only friends from college, but high school and elementary school. And then I have family starting to sign up. And last but not least, I network with past work colleagues. So with all those social circles having access to my profile, I

Being on the job hunt required me to re-evaluate my CV, or “Curriculum Vitae.” I had a very simple one that I’ve been using the past few years, but I was inspired to create a whole new one from scratch by this very awesome article, How To Create A Great Web Design CV and Résumé?