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  • Developers Should Learn Design, Designers Should Learn to Code

    Developers Should Learn Design, Designers Should Learn to Code

    I’ve pondered the question over the entire course of my time working as a freelancer and continue to ponder it to this day: Should developers learn to design? The common advice to designers is that yes, you should learn to code. But what about the other way around? With the recent push to get more […]

  • Is it Gif or Jif?

    Is it Gif or Jif?

    On a lighter topic today, I want to share with you a story of my childhood. Back in the 90s, the very first image I downloaded onto my computer (downloading images and saving them on your hard drive was a big thing back then), was an animated gif of all 151 Pokemon. It took me […]

  • Do You Suck at Math? Learn to Program Anyway

    Do You Suck at Math? Learn to Program Anyway

    There’s something to be said for being good at math. Or at least not sucking at it. I suck at it, and playing catch up after all these years of doing very little with math also sucks. I would be lying if I said I still hated it as much now as I did back […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]