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CSS3 animated menu using jQuery

I am a personal fan of unique and interesting menus without using flash.   I’ll break it down it 3 small little steps… 1. The Markup 2. The Styles 3. The[...]

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Rounded Buttons are Safe and Square Buttons are Threatening

  This is the first of a series of posts based on Thinking By Design, an article in the July/August 2011 issue of Scientific American. Most designers would agree that[...]

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2011 Bacon Logs are in OUR Office!

The air was rich with the smell of Bacon, Barbecue and Sausage this morning… ahhhhh tradition is a helluva thing. Yearly when our staffer from Seattle visits town, Bacon Logs are created[...]

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Dark Chocolate Bacon Cupcakes

I have a friend who found this recipe, and whom has a love for bacon, decided to make these.  She is in culinary school so I trust her in this[...]

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Philosophy Friday – Part 01 – The Hierarchy of Development Needs

Background: Given: In most situations, software maintenance accounts for between 60 to 80 percent of the total life cycle cost (includes enhancements and bug fixes). When I first started in[...]

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Bacon Bits: Weekly Reading

As a voracious reader in the .NET development field, I come across a lot of wonderful articles. Here is this week’s list: First and Second Level caching in NHibernate NHibernate[...]

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Round-trips to SQL server are expensive

SQL is a great tool for the storage of data and does wonders in allowing us to scale up the web tier. However, a consequence of this is that you[...]

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Writing a Fireworks extension: The absolute basics

So I recently decided to write my first Fireworks extension, and although my Javascript skills are ok for a designer, I was having trouble figuring out how to get started[...]

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