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76design works with 76 Brand Films to deliver video production services, so we invited Video Creative Director Mike Edgell for this Q&A session. But before, check out their demo reel. We hope it inspires you to check out their site if you’re looking for video production services. WHO ARE YOU? 76 Brand Films. WHAT IS 76
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Avoid being hacked, keep WordPress up to date and enjoy more stability and new features For anyone who’s ever built, maintained, worked with, or owned a WordPress site, they know how common it is to see that “WordPress X.X.X is available! Please update now.” message at the top of their dashboard. Is it really that
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Re-ordering content from one device to the next without changing the DOM using a mobile first grid system The requirement of having to build websites that work on any device can sometimes bring challenges that we would not normally run into. In certain cases, you may want your content to display in a certain order
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A metrics pipeline using StatsD, Graphite and Team Dashboard Why measure We all know that it is necessary to rely on accurate and timely data to improve your product. The issue is that commonly available data, like that provided by Google Analytics, simply isn’t enough. In fact, is about something completely different. Google Analytics
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Robots Building Robots Introduction Ansible is a powerful tool for provisioning CentOS on commercial grade linux webservers. In my last article, Webmin Configuration on CentOS, I discussed the steps to setup a new server complete with Webmin and Percona. This is our preferred setup for reliable webservers, but one glance at the article will make
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Project Overview Cisco needed a presentation tool to demonstrate their products and services in a rich, interactive and non-linear way. Available tools such as PowerPoint and other online presentation software just didn’t offer the level of interactivity nor the freedom they required. The tool needed to work on touch screens, offline and online and it
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Project Overview Commissionaires has been Canada’s premier security company for more than 85 years. Primarily composed of former military and RCMP, they protect people and property across Canada in both private and public sectors.
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In today’s commoditized web development industry, choosing the cheapest vendor is not necessarily the most financially responsible decision. You may have heard the expression “Nobody Ever Got Fired For Buying IBM”. Fear tactics aside, I believe this statement is rooted in some sort of reality. At the risk of oversimplifying, when comparing vendors, customers tend
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Integrating Plupload into a Backbone View to handle file uploads. When building web applications, we like to create an interface that is void of unnecessary loads, resulting in a much better user experience. For us to be able to accomplish this, we need to write our interface primarily in Javascript. To help us with this
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How to avoid analysis paralysis and get real in digital product development. 1. Get out of the lab Like Macy Gray would say, you need to get up and get out… how will you make it if you never even try? Product people—as opposed to marketing people—love to work endlessly pushing the last pixel and
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