Author: jibran

Launched: IHG Instagram Sweepstakes

Over the course of June and early July I spent five weeks helping the development team at Possible Seattle crank out an awesome Instagram driven sweepstakes site for IHG. I was responsible for the gallery section, which is driven mostly

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I Want A Way to Estimate Without Estimating

It’s not a difficult concept to understand. I do work. But first I must provide an estimate, a number for that work. A f***ing number. To represent the length of time it will take me to do the aforementioned work.

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Launched: Get Your Shit Together

Good Evening. I am pleased to announce the launch of a new site for one of my clients. Get Your Shit Together is a site dedicated to helping people get their finances, wills, living wills and other life details in

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W3C Link Checker and Robots.txt Exclusion

I was ready. I had just finished updating the last few links (and some content) on my clients website and I was ready to check for broken links. I opened the trusty link checker over at W3C Schools and got

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WordPress JetPack Site Stats: Fully Ignore Logged-In Users

Recently, I noticed that WordPress JetPack Site Stats were reporting unusually high numbers on one of my blogs. I know it was likely that the extra counts came from me making many updates to the site. But why now? And

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One Big Problem with Google Drive

It’s simple. Google Drive is a great product but does not allow you to share files and folders with non-Google emails. The recipient is notified of insufficient privileges or that he/she needs to create an account. This is obviously a

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Launched: Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Launch Website

I am pleased to announce that after six weeks of non-stop fun at Zaaz Seattle, we have launched the new Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Launch website. I landed this contract in early August and it has been a steady grind

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Today I Had to Override Default Styling on an iOS HTML Input

On contract to help develop the new Visual Studio 2012 launch site, today I had to override the default styling on an iOS textbox. With both an iPhone and iPad in hand I discovered the following post on SO. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2918707/turn-off-iphone-safari-input-element-rounding

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Launched: Pella Professional

Good day. I’m excited to share with you that after many long Seattle winter months, we have finally launched the Pella Professional website. My post is a few days late as it went live last Thursday, Apr 26 2012, but

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Changing Perspective on Text in Illustrator 5

This is more for me, in case I forget, but if it helps you out, I’ll turn around and pick a bail of cotton. Create outline of text in question (Command-Shift-O). Select Free Transform Tool (Shortcut Key E). Grab hold

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