Launch: Osborn Energy
Our friends at The Hazel Group recently brought a development project to us; a conversion from a Flash developer, they needed it in HTML/CSS/JS, mimicking the same UI and effects. Osborn Energy is emerging as an … Continued
Wow. That tastes great!
These guys are fucking dope. “Greater Than: Coconut Water with Added Boost of Electrolytes Pair of post-college Chicago bros Jon and Mark Sider are looking to riff off vogue for coconut water as natural sports drink … Continued
4 SEO Basics that most people don’t know
Yeah, yeah, yeah, SEO this, SEO that. Whether working with large corporations or new sites, I’m always surprised (and surprised to find myself surprised) that more people do not understand SEO basics. Dear Madames and … Continued
An IDEO Props & Thank You!
A gentleman named Beau who works at the design firm IDEO popped into our Cafe Agency on Broadway and knew we were a design agency. We connected right away and he was kind enough to invite … Continued
Handy HTTP requests with Curb and Ruby
While working on one of the projects, i tried to find multi-purpose HTTP request class that can use different network interfaces/ip addresses with retry option (if connection slow or server not responding for some reason). … Continued
Greater > Than at BevNET
Disclaimer: We love these guys. Two brothers from Chicago creating a coconut water infused sports drink called Greater > Than. Ok, so Mark and Jon flew out to BevNet to present their product, just shy … Continued
You have superhuman powers
For the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about ways to systematically predict the future. Ok, maybe not so much predict the future so much as predicting the outcome to particular … Continued
MPMusicPlayerController “Hello World!” iPhone app with source code
Once I was listening to iPod music player on my iPhone and I decided to look up lyrics for a song that was playing. What do you usually do in that case? Right, go to … Continued
Rails MongoDB logging on Heroku with MongoHQ
I love Heroku but it only retains your last 100 lines of logs. To save your log output you need to store them outside of the service. MongoDB is “fantastic for logging” and Heroku’s MongoHQ … Continued
GoDaddy SSL certificate throws errors in Google Chrome?
Synopsis: GoDaddy SSL certificates are causing errors in some of the browsers, e.g. Google Chrome. Provided is a method to fix this. How-to: Download intermediate certificate available at GoDaddy repository: gd_intermediate.crt. Upload to your server … Continued
CSS/JQuery navigation with menu items enlarging on hover without shifting adjacent elements
Synopsis: Menu (navigation items) are popping out (font-size increased) on hover without pushing/shifting adjacent menu items.Bonus: How to center navigation of undefined width. I strongly encourage all web developers (designers, front-end developers or whatever) to … Continued
Just go out and get it done, next.
Melissa Pierce is a great example of someone who had an idea and just did it. First time film maker produced “Life In Perpetual Beta” a one hour “documentary film about the ways in which … Continued
Make IE6 respect width (CSS)
What we do to emulate min-width in IE-6? We apply this css to container: .container { height:auto !important; height:200px; min-height:200px; } Here’s what happens: IE 6 doesn’t understand !important, IE6 doesn’t know what min-height is, … Continued
Doejo rockets for your desktop
We’re giving you some retro desktop wallpapers featuring the Doejo rocket! Download links for the most common resolutions after the jump… Green Solar System 1024×768 1280×800 1280×1024 1600×1200 1920×1200 2560×1600 Green Rocket 1024×768 1280×800 1280×1024 … Continued
Clearly 4G ad campaign a waste of money
Clear “Super Fast Mobile Internet” is spending so much money on it’s marketing campaigns it hurts me. If we were hired to consult and market the Clearwire Corporation, I would make the “Clear 4G” network … Continued
Coming soon to a coffee shop near you…
…doejo coffee sleeves! Our order with Java Jacket should be arriving any day now, and you’ll be able to wrap your coffee cup in these stylish sleeves. They’ll be available in Phil’s coffee shops around Chicago … Continued
Javascript router
Let’s say you’re building a 3-pages website: Home User Settings -> Profile User Settings -> Account Pretty basic. However, on the front end, you need to implement the following using Javascript: Home page should have … Continued
Reseting Magento file permissions
Reseting magento file permissions from command shell (SSH) shorthand: find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;chmod o+w var var/.htaccess includes includes/config.php app/etcchmod 550 pearchmod -R … Continued