Pattern guides are created in order to gain a perspective of the project’s parts and inner workings. This process helps developers arrive at an educated decision based on the project’s context. By working in this fashion authors can identify possible coding issues and collectively organize these shared principles across an interface. Read More →
Top 5 Educational Demos for Web Developers
Instead of telling everyone about my “Top 10 Favorite CodePen Demos” I’d like to take this time to admire interactive tools that provide great use in our daily work and education. Sure I’m dazzled by the shiny’s, but it’s time to talk about the tools that help us learn and aid in the betterment of authors on the Web. Read More →
Making A Custom Gradient For ChartJS
Having a dependable set of tools at your disposal is a must. For me, ChartJS has been one of those tools when I’m in need of dynamic charts. Here’s an explanation on how I customized the fill color for the WATH project sent to me by Theron Studios along with a small tip for loading charts smoothly on initial page load. Read More →
A Campfire Chat
I’m not one to remember why I do things all the time, but in this particular case I remember everything. That event is the day I named my business and picked the imagery to represent my venture. In the following pieces of text I’ll share some personal insight into the birth of Gray Ghost Visuals and where it’s going. Read More →
Yeoman for Newbs
Being efficient in your workflow and decreasing the time required for common tasks is never a bad thing. In this article I’ll be discussing Yeoman; a scaffolding tool that can help improve your workflow from package management to development to deployment. Preparing new projects with instant best practices and tools to stay productive just became extremely painless and straight forward. Read More →
Mentoring
We all have heroes that encourage our desires and inspirations whenever we see their work. As a developer in the Web community I’ve had the priviledge of having some pretty great conversations with some of the brightest in the industry. In light of those experiences I felt like giving back by mentoring someone who loves and works on the web. Read More →
Transformicons
As of lately, my interests in terms of Web development have gone from a devotion to responsive design techniques to the appreciation of finely, well-made animations and interactions. Today I’d like to share a project called “Transformicons” that’s inspired by the work of Bennett Feely and Sara Soueidan. Read More →