Dana Severance

A new friend of mine expressed an interest to learn a bit about web development, if only to maintain his own website. I sat down to look at my toolset. What do I use? (more…)

Every once in a while I run into a problem that’s just stupid. There’s no other way to describe it. Anyone who codes for the web knows this feeling. There’s always one browser that refuses to comply, and now you have the privilege of finding out which bug is causing Internet Explorer to render differently than everyone else.

I just had one of these wonderful errors, and Twitter came to my rescue. (more…)

Just this past week, Bookmans sent me on a trip to the fine city of Austin, Texas for a conference known as South by Southwest. This wonderful event is almost more of a festival of nerddom than any sort of coherent conference. As far as I can tell, this is what gives SXSW its interesting feel, engaging community, and ruckus parties. (more…)

My school, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that I need to learn Java. It also seems to think that I can learn this to proficiency in a matter of ten weeks. The first five weeks are considered basic programming. The next five are for the advanced level. Can someone say “rushed”? (more…)

One of my most recent projects for Bookmans was to create a Shopify theme from a pre-existing web template. This was my first real knee-deep interaction with Ruby on Rails and liquid theming, so it carried with it a heavy dose from the lessons learned bag. Thankfully, the gents at Bookmans were willing to give me the time I required. (more…)