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Come see my talk at WordCamp Ottawa 2017!

I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Ottawa 2017! My talk is titled Fantastic SVGs and Where to Find Them. In this session we will cover the basics of SVGs and how to use it on your WordPress site. We will also explore great resources to get started using SVGs today. […]

Technology

Experiencing Samsung #GALAXYLIFE

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Samsung #GALAXYLIFE pop-up event at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto. At this event, I had a chance to check out their latest products including the Galaxy S8/S8+, Gear 360 and the new Gear VR. Below are my quick impressions and thoughts after getting my hands and trying out their […]

WordPress

Removing ETX characters in WordPress Posts

Recently I had the issue where an invisible EXT character was appearing in posts and titles. After some investigation, I found out that this EXT character was caused by line breaks in the text created by Photoshop. In Photoshop when you use SHIFT + ENTER to create a line break, it will add an invisible EXT […]

WordPress

Using WebP in WordPress

I’ve been using the WebP image format in some of my client projects and of course my personal website. WebP is a great format that offers better compression than traditional JPEG but at the moment the only browsers that support WebP are Chrome and Opera. Don’t let the browser support dissuade you if a lot of […]

Ghost

Using Buster – A Static Site Generator for Ghost

Buster is a static site generator for Ghost made by Akshit Khurana. It is used to generate static HTML + CSS from your local Ghost install, this is perfect for using Ghost on shared hosting (no need for Node.js!). In this short tutorial I’ll be going through the steps on how to install and use Buster. […]

Web Development

Installing Package Control for Sublime Text 3 Beta (OS X)

I’ve been recently playing around with the recent beta release of Sublime Text 3 and I wanted to install the popular & super useful Sublime Package Control by Wil Bond. Right now the only viable option to install the Sublime Package Control is via Git in the Terminal. I’m a Terminal newbie on Mac OS X, […]

Javascript

Pushy – Off-Canvas Navigation

I’ve recently been working on a project that required an off-canvas navigation menu. This type of navigation is frequently used in smartphone & tablet apps, such as Facebook, Foursquare and YouTube. While building my off-canvas navigation menu I stumbled upon Medium’s excellent implementation, the animation was smooth on desktop & mobile devices and the experience […]