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CodeKit

akashagnosis — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:38:33 -0400

Will give CodeKit a test-drive for developing some new web projects, just as soon as I upgrade to 10.7 and get a new iMac.

Installing CakePHP with Composer

akashagnosis — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:20:48 -0400

Installing CakePHP with Composer:

I really like how composer simplifies dependency management & installation. It can make applications more portable, and simpler to deploy when compared to the pear installer. Another really nice feature of composer is that you can easily install any pear package, making it perfect for installing CakePHP. While installation was simple, some extra work was required to get things up and running smoothly.

builtwithbootstrap: Utopia, the premium responsive admin...

akashagnosis — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:34:42 -0400

builtwithbootstrap:

Utopia, the premium responsive admin template comes packed with a massive set of features including 30+ beautifully crafted UI elements ranging from charts to gauges, knobs to masked inputs and what not.

Cool.

Responsive drop shadows | 456 Berea Street

akashagnosis — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:21:12 -0400

Responsive drop shadows | 456 Berea Street

What does mechanical engineering have to do with data science?

akashagnosis — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:24:06 -0400

What does mechanical engineering have to do with data science?:

I can relate with this post from Noah @ 37signals. Engineering school was good preparation for solving problems of data science. Different content, same process.

Our Favorite Typefaces of 2012

akashagnosis — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:14:16 -0400

Our Favorite Typefaces of 2012

What's New in Shopify 2 Beta

akashagnosis — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:56:30 -0500

What's New in Shopify 2 Beta

Kaleidoscope — File comparison for Mac

akashagnosis — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:48:33 -0500

Kaleidoscope — File comparison for Mac:

Great design.

Check out the new front door for Building Bridges. Just put some...

akashagnosis — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:48:39 -0500

Check out the new front door for Building Bridges. Just put some post-thanksgiving-love into the newly rebranded non-profit site. Continues to be powered by Textpattern, and will soon be hosted on Textdrive.

Using a simple yet flexible responsive layout for the site, with jquery goodness for nice fonts and useful custom fields within Textpattern to create custom post types such as ‘events’.

BA21 is getting a redesign!

Wait a few weeks and the website will reflect our new service packages designed specifically for a case such as Building Bridges, and including our new podcast package (both in-studio and on-sight) which can be combined to literally take the words out of your mouth and put them directly on your website. In full HD and mic’d with multiple mic’s. Our studio consists of a large black-velvet backdrop which provides an unparalleled contrast and color density profile when combined with 3-point lighting. Or we come to you and shoot your location.

If you represent a non-profit, are an artists, musician or individual who would like be effective online, feel free to get in touch to discuss a package with BA21.

Piwik - Web analytics - Open source

akashagnosis — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:13:56 -0400

Piwik - Web analytics - Open source

Multiple Redesigns (in-progress)

akashagnosis — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:15:51 -0400

Knit Denise is getting a fresh new Shopify redesign to go right along with the recent Shopify 2.0 update. It’s happening along with another redesign coming out very shortly for a local non-profit: Building Bridges (they’re changing their name and rebranding along with the redesign). Busy time of year! Check out the old sites so you can compare in a few days…

Also, their might be some big news coming. Beside the big news that Textdrive is back from the belly of the whale. More on that later.

Happy Halloween!

Just launched a new artist portfolio blog. Introducing the new...

akashagnosis — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:11:10 -0400

Just launched a new artist portfolio blog. Introducing the new KimBoggs.com.

Using Tumblr quite a lot lately. And this is a great example of why. Check out the infinite scrolling, full screen slideshow, and the tag collection links from the navigation.

Think of your portfolio and blog as one, add a contact form and pages, auto-post to facebook + twitter, and start posting over time.

Also a nice option, the Tumblr queue. If you have 14 posts in the queue, publish 2 each day between 3 and 5pm. Smart for weekly updates to the site.

Then, pick a day each week to update your site. During the week, activity will just be happening on your site as well as possible activity on facebook/twitter.

builtwithbootstrap: CrossRoad A beautiful responsive Wordpress...

akashagnosis — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:44:04 -0400

builtwithbootstrap:

CrossRoad

A beautiful responsive Wordpress theme, best suited for Magazines, News and Blogs.

It comes with 18 awesome widgets and 22 widget areas, 4 post formats (image, audio, video & gallery) and tons of theme options.

builtwithbootstrap: Bootstrap Designer Generate Bootstrap...

akashagnosis — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 02:18:34 -0400

builtwithbootstrap:

Bootstrap Designer

Generate Bootstrap Templates at the speed of light!

"I like Responsive Design. Heck, I LOVE Responsive Design. I think it’s a brilliant methodology,..."

akashagnosis — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:11:53 -0400

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I like Responsive Design. Heck, I LOVE Responsive Design. I think it’s a brilliant methodology, which address true challenges in a very good way. But no matter how fond you are of RWD, I think you have to face the music – RWD makes it very hard to write a fast website.

I’m not saying you can’t write a high performance responsive website. I’m not saying you shouldn’t use RWD (Responsive Web Design) – I would actually recommend it to most organizations. However, RWD makes pages inherently more complicated, and all in all would make the mobile web slower.

”

- Guy’s Pod » Blog Archive » Responsive Web Design Makes It Hard To Be Fast

1 Billion

akashagnosis — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:07:15 -0400

Holy moly. Shopify kicks ass. BA21 has been developing e-commerce sites on Shopify almost from their day 1. And our clients continue to be extremely pleased with the fine service with which to sell their products.

Today, I’m excited to announce that our merchants have sold over $1,000,000,000 in products using Shopify. That’s a lot of zeros, and a huge achievement for all of our store owners.

Every day I get so excited when I see all the beautiful online stores that have chosen Shopify as their ecommerce platform. We have over 35,000 active online stores in almost 100 different countries around the world. Since we launched six years ago, over 13 million orders have been processed.

Initializr - Start an HTML5 Boilerplate project in 15 seconds!

akashagnosis — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:43:14 -0400

Initializr - Start an HTML5 Boilerplate project in 15 seconds!

20 Free Responsive HTML & CSS Templates

akashagnosis — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:38:52 -0400

20 Free Responsive HTML & CSS Templates

builtwithbootstrap: Jumpstart UI Amazingly simple &...

akashagnosis — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:50:34 -0400

builtwithbootstrap:

Jumpstart UI

Amazingly simple & stunning admin themes for Twitter Bootstrap!

Best Responsive WordPress Themes

akashagnosis — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:03:40 -0400

Best Responsive WordPress Themes