An organic fast food burger chain? It’s happening–with over 25 locations across 8 states in the U.S., and more appearing this year, Elevation Burger is showing us that fast food doesn’t need to be junk food. What a paradigm to break–and long overdue. The beef is 100% USDA-certified organic, grass-fed, free-range, and ground-on-premises; the cheese [...]
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I’ve been using Apple’s voice controlled virtual assistant Siri for over two months now, and overall, I have to say she’s pretty kick-ass. As someone who constantly needs to be reminded to do things, but never has time to create the reminders in the first place, I now can’t imagine getting through the work day [...]
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It’s extremely rare to find a product that combines both technology and style well. Apple, for example, has been producing fan-inspiring devices for years because they understand one simple requirement of a great product: “It’s just gotta work.” And when it’s done right, the technology fades away so you almost don’t even think of it [...]
Continue Reading →Pulling a random record from a MongoDB database is a bit tricky. We’ve probably all used something like this in MySQL at one time or another: which, in CakePHP, translates to something like: With MongoDB, however, there is no built-in way to get a random record. Their solution to this is located here: http://cookbook.mongodb.org/patterns/random-attribute/. But I [...]
Continue Reading →If you’re familiar with CakePHP elements, you will invariably end up in a situation where you need to render an element that only shows up in a production environment. A perfect example – a Google Analytics tracking code snippet. In Cake, your element code might look something like this: Lithium, however, has an Environment class [...]
Continue Reading →Having done my fair share of HTML email campaigns in DreamMail (formerly DartMail) and ExactTarget, I can tell you Microsoft’s decision to revert to using the old MS Word HTML renderer for emails in Outlook 2007+ was a total WTF for any designer. Try explaining to your client (who uses Outlook) why every email you [...]
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It drives me nuts that I can never seem to get anything done if I’m doing it for myself. With over 11 years in this industry, I’ve demonstrated to myself over and over that I do my absolute best work with a gun to my head. My most successful projects have been the ones I [...]
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