Iron Ion Blog

  • How to Enable Experimental Chrome Features

    How to Enable Experimental Chrome Features

    There are a lot of reasons why you want to enable experimental Chrome features, whether you’re a developer looking to stay on the cutting edge of new technologies or a user who just wants to see the latest and greatest things. Enabling experimental features in Chrome will allow you to preview some of the awesome […]

  • Bonfire: Factorialize a Number Solution

    Bonfire: Factorialize a Number Solution

    I’m going through FreeCodeCamp’s coding track as a way to brush up on Javascript, and re-familiarize myself with its more programming-centered features. I have been using Javascript primarily with websites. Most of the time, I’m not dealing with anything beyond timing, detecting user actions and maybe a little bit of animation. So and wanted to […]

  • Like the Iron Ion Facebook Page

    Like the Iron Ion Facebook Page

    After a little over two years, I finally got around to setting up an Iron Ion Facebook page for Iron Ion. It wasn’t complicated, difficult or very spectacular. I’m just amazed by how long it took me to get around to it. I don’t even have a good excuse, it was just like saying to […]

  • Coding a 1 to 6 Column Layout in HTML & CSS

    Coding a 1 to 6 Column Layout in HTML & CSS

    One of the consistent things I notice while teaching web is that a lot of students understandably have a hard time lining up columns, setting up to create columns and understanding the box model and how it relates to positioning columns in HTML and CSS. Since this seems to be a pretty common hurdle for […]

  • Understanding & Using WP Query

    Understanding & Using WP Query

    In order to adequately develop a fully functioning WordPress (WP) theme, you need to know WP Query and understand how it works, why it’s necessary, when you need to use it and where it should be placed. WP Query is a class with a host of powerful functions (called template tags in WordPress) that allow […]

  • Using CSS Attributes Selectors

    Using CSS Attributes Selectors

    A CSS Attribute Selector, in its most simple format looks like this: selector[attribute] Its purpose is exactly as it sounds, it allows you to select an element based upon its attribute and using css attributes selectors is exactly what we’re talking about today. While you might be wondering how or why that’s useful, given that […]

  • 5 Frameworks Worth Checking Out

    5 Frameworks Worth Checking Out

    Frameworks seem to be the in thing and while I’m still kind of old school about this in that I’ll insist upon building things from scratch, I do still use a framework to avoid the hassle of the setup. It’s also imperative that designer/developers understand at least one major framework because hey, they are tools […]

  • Installing Git & GitHub on OSX Using Terminal

    Installing Git & GitHub on OSX Using Terminal

    Knowing how to use Git is incredibly important for all developers, whether you’re building a simple HTML/CSS website or making your own operating system. Git allows you to quickly implement version control into your project, but a lot of people–especially developers first starting out have a hard time grasping what exactly Git is and how […]

  • CSS: Using Transform: Translate() for Animations and Position

    CSS: Using Transform: Translate() for Animations and Position

    The CSS Translate Transformation function comes in three flavors: translate(), translateX() and translateY(). It can be used to move elements around on your screen, either statically for positioning or coupled with a transition to create attention-grabbing effects. I’ve seen translate used a lot on images and sections to showcase a pull up or pull out […]

  • 10 Beautiful Free Fonts on Behance

    10 Beautiful Free Fonts on Behance

    Behance is like a cave filled with treasure, beautiful free fonts treasure specifically. I’m constantly impressed by the great fonts exclusively available on there so I decided to highlight some of the nicest ones that I’ve found recently. Some of these are completely free for an entire font family, others have some free weights, but […]

  • WordPress Conditionals for Logged In/Out Users

    WordPress Conditionals for Logged In/Out Users

    It happens all the time, you have a logged in user who should be displayed some kind of message or be shown something that a logged out user wouldn’t normally have access to. Typically, this takes the form of a logout button or link if you lost it by deactivating the default administrative bar that […]

  • Swift: Resolving Asset Catalog Compiler Warning

    Swift: Resolving Asset Catalog Compiler Warning

    Fun thing happened the other day as I created a project to test out some code in XCode, I had initially set it to iPhone only by mistake then went back to set the app to Universal, only to encounter two warnings that had me puzzled as to how to resolve it. This isn’t a […]

  • Simple Intro to HTML5 Web Storage

    Simple Intro to HTML5 Web Storage

    Way back in the day when Internet Explorer was the King of the Internet (unofficial title), it came out with a novel idea to allow webpages to store 64kb worth of data. With many things that IE came out with, later technologies came along and did it better. These days, we have HTML5 Storage also […]

  • Swift: Cocos2D and SpriteBuilder Developer Guide

    Swift: Cocos2D and SpriteBuilder Developer Guide

    Starting off a while ago, I attempted to get familiarized with the Cocos2D game framework. Things ground to a halt when I realized that 1) I wasn’t familiar enough with Obj-C to comprehend the same things within Cocos2D, 2) Things were transitioning to Swift at the time and so was I, and 3) There didn’t […]

  • Re-Discovering Sublime Text & Shortcuts

    Re-Discovering Sublime Text & Shortcuts

    Recently started using Sublime Text for a more extended period of time. I spent more time getting it up and running than Brackets, but I think I’m fairly happy with how it’s going. The main reason I switched back? I was teaching using Sublime Text and it was getting ridiculous not knowing the keyboard shortcuts […]

Where have I been?

Since late-2017, I have decided to go back to my roots as an artist rather than continue as a designer/developer. The articles featured in this blog are very old, many are out of date, but I did not want to archive all of these posts even though they are old. As the internet fills with more and more things, sometimes old information that may be crucial to solving a problem or helping someone understand a concept, becomes harder to find. So, I wanted to keep these posts up in the off-chance that it helps someone, someday.

If any of these posts have helped you, please consider checking out my current whereabouts on alumandink.com. Best of luck and be well! ❤️