by Brian Garside | Aug 31, 2016 | Internet
I want to start this post out by saying how hard this decision was for me, and how much I hated doing it. For the better part of a decade I worked for a large Canadian media company. In my division, all of our revenue was generated by Advertising, so ad dollars paid...
by Brian Garside | Oct 17, 2013 | Internet
One of the sources of frustration for my lovely wife Charlene and a source of great amusement for my friends and co-workers is my seeming obsession and addiction to Kickstarter. For those of you who don’t know, Kickstarter is an online crowdfunding tool that...
by Brian Garside | Jul 30, 2013 | Internet
Waaay back in May, my team and I designed a new T-Shirt for our most recent Info-Tech co-op class. I usually help brainstorm these, but this time I had a solid concept in my head that I really wanted to do myself – and how often do I get to use my super-power as...
by Brian Garside | Jul 4, 2013 | Internet
UPDATE – July 5th. Disclaimer added to top of post. Two new images added to the bottom of the post. DISCLAIMER: This blog post features incidents that are based on real events. All characters appearing in this work are ficticious, and emails have been edited...
by Brian Garside | Jun 26, 2013 | Internet
I make websites. What I do is art and science. I don’t do it with a brush, a calculator, a pen, beakers, a keyboard, or even code anymore, I do it with my brain. I collaborate with others to realize a fully formed vision. This thing is in my brain, I can spin...
by Brian Garside | Apr 18, 2013 | Internet
I’ve been using Ruby on Rails for about five years now, and I can’t actually remember my life before it at this point. As much as I love Ruby on Rails, I hate setting it up. Okay, HATE is a pretty stiff word…let’s say “really, really,...
