by Brian Garside | Jan 18, 2015 | Business
Starting February 4th, I’ll be teaching a five week (one session per week) course on effective web design at Fanshawe College’s continuing education program. The course is called “Effective Web Design and Development – COMP-1363”....
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,...
by Brian Garside | Feb 7, 2013 | Internet
A List Apart – For people who make websites, is one of my favourite resources on the internerds for web usability stuff. I own all of the A Book Apart books, and I’ve always loved their websites. They just did a total redesign, and posted a great summary...
by Brian Garside | Nov 16, 2011 | Internet
The DIG (Digital Interactive Gaming) conference in London Ontario added a Web Development stream this year to compliment the gaming streams. With an opening keynote by Jeffery Zeldman’ and a closing one by Derek Featherstone, there was world class content being...
by Brian Garside | Dec 31, 2010 | Internet
My mom asked me to help her register with the College of Nurses of Ontario, it was a pretty clean website, and looked like a decent user experience, so I figured why not. Well, after struggling through their website, I decided to whip off a letter to them to expresss...