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Fluid layouts aren’t the best choice in all situations. Content should always determine the layout.

How I use Jenkins to test and deploy code that minimizes bugs and human error.

How to use Migrate and Drupal-to-Drupal Migrate modules to conduct a migration to Drupal 7.

Add a custom bezier curves to make your CSS animation pop.

Step by step process to migrate image field content into a field collection.

I gave a short talk recently on SASS, hailing four benefits that make using SASS worthwhile. I’ll describe them briefly in this blog post.

Making changes to the default.vcl (or whatever configuration is being used) on a live varnish server is risky business, here is a safer way to debug.

NodeJS can be useful for one-off batch operations that need to call remote API endpoints.

For a long time, I would have to search Google every time I wanted to look up a Drupal or API function. Then I learned this cool trick.

Here is how you can set up PHP's memcached to work with multiple sites on a single server.

I was recently in the market for a new laptop. The search for a replacement brought up all sorts of questions: Should I just get the same model? Should I upgrade/downgrade? Should I even buy a Mac? It's this last question that I thought long and hard about. Here are four arguments for using a Mac.

Improving Drupal 7 performance using the Alternative PHP Cache.

Adding a custom validator to a form field.

How to migrate profiles in Drupal 7.

Going beyond what comes out-of-the-box with Apache Solr Drupal integration.

How to sanely replace jQuery effects with equivalent CSS3 animations.

Since my background is application development, I see the front-end through those lenses. I would like to take some time in this article to jot down some of the values that a developer’s approach brings to front-end development.

Using Apple's Automator to resize and crop a bunch of images at once to consistent dimensions.

How to read in information from a text file and use it to manipulate a Photoshop document.

Pre-fill data associated with the user on form fields.

As websites continue to experience an increase in mobile browser visits, most sites are accommodating this through mobile optimization. Let’s face it, mobile is here to stay. There are many things a site can do to improve the experience on mobile devices.

I don't think there are any simple answers, but most will agree that it would be nice to offset the male dominated profession.

The other day I needed the ability to fire a JavaScript event when a key was pressed while in a CKEDITOR instance. A simple jQuery keyup event wouldn't work, and internet searches were turning up dead ends about a deprecated CKEDITOR plugin.

A detailed guide to creating a beautiful modal gallery of images.