Brian Dys

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  • Go Back or Go Home

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    From the Podcast, Unfinished Business Episode 80: I wonder why he trusts us? If you want to make a big difference to an industry or a big change in your own life, you’re never gonna do it playing it safe. ~ Ashley Baxter You can’t achieve anything just sitting back and watching other people do…

  • The Government in Becoming Relevant

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    Step 1 Embrace this thing called “internet“. No more red tape, no more grouchy customer-fronting employees, no more 7 am long lines 12 pm you’re given the application form 5 pm you’re ordered to come back tomorrow. No more nothing government, no more. Step 2 Speak in Filipino. Speak in local dialects. And be understandable…

  • The Snail Mail Is Extinct

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    Every heard of this ancient creature snail mail? I used to send one to my pen pal in Cebu and was exhilarated finding a reply waiting for me. But that was ages ago. Living in an apartment complex has got its quirk – receiving tons of mails for people who already moved out of the…

  • Webmaster, Webslave

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    Today, I signed up to be a consultant to manage a government website for several months. At first, the plan was to redesign it piece by piece and integrate a CMS (like WordPress) but news recently came that soon, all government websites will follow a set of guidelines and will be built on Joomla! Igor…

  • A Dose of Negativity

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    If you have a padded content, everything in it will be bound by the padding around it. But how do we expand an element to the edges of the container, disobeying the padding – something like a full-width picture. We use negative left and right margins to offset the spacing brought about by the padding.…

  • Iterations, Iterations, Iter

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    Update – 10/9/2014 This post has been moved to Design DriveThru. It’s like trying to solve a puzzle – you try out different solutions until you either come to a dead end or to face more questions. That’s how it is trying to establish a foundation, a system in simplifying the process of designing an…

  • Lay It on the Table

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    I’m looking for a bubblegum patch for tables displayed in narrow viewports. So, I thought about display: block, max-width: 100%, and overflow-x: auto. Take a look at the examples: Example 1 shows the problem of the overflowing content of the table and Example 2 shows the quick solution. [codepen_embed height=”621″ theme_id=”1820″ slug_hash=”Kobqa” default_tab=”result”]See the Pen…

  • I Agree to the Terms of Agreement

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    A while ago, I was connecting my HTC phone to Mac and it needed a piece of app to do so. Of course, there’s a requirement to agree to something I seldom read. My behavior is to press on the label “I agree to the terms of the license agreement” instead of on the checkbox…

  • Week-links 5: Jun 9 – 13, 2014

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    White-label product A white-label product or service is a product or service produced by one company (the producer) that other companies (the marketers) rebrand to make it appear as if they made it. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-label_product If clients say, “We want this widget white-labeled,” theme it, rebrand it, they mean.

  • Sometimes the Future Isn’t Written on Adobe

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    Yesterday, I was scouting for an Adobe Creative Cloud reseller. It was Microphase who sponsored the event at My Cinema, Greenbelt 3. Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams looks apt for the Chikka Design team. Joining entails having one administrator who will then purchase “seats” or subscriptions for people in the team. Long gone are the…