In the war between simplicity and power, there are those on each side that say you must sacrifice one to get the other. But as Google shows us, you can have both without sacrificing one for the other.
The Google homepage is relatively unchanged from when its founders created it. Sure, they’ve added links to their [...]

Ever have that one client who says “it’s broken” and can’t give you any more information than that?
I’ve been there.
Before I get into it, let me put a disclaimer out there:
I’m not calling anyone out. I’m not specifying that this happened recently or even a particular client who does this. I’m just writing this as [...]

I took the weekend off to head back to California and visit my mother for her birthday. It was a wonderful time, and it was a reminder of the need to take time off to rest and relax. Code written by people who are tired and worn out is never as good as code written [...]

A huge part of my role as a developer is to work with existing code that needs tweaks or changes to integrate new features. This is often not the fault of anyone but time; new features are required and old ideas are replaced. But often there’s a certain lack of forward thinking by the past [...]

Quick – you have a tight budget and you need to save money. What do you cut? If you said the admin interface, you are like many clients I’ve had but strangely, you’d still be wrong.
Lots of people figure that the public facing portion of the website is the most important. And for the most [...]