Hello World Wide Web
It has been more than 10 years since I wrote my first line of code and the first line of code I’ve even written was a “Hello world” header in an empty HTML page. Back then, that was a revelation; I...
View ArticleHow mobile devices and the web saved the day
The story begins two weeks ago. I was on vacation in Berlin and I was having a break from the usual coding routine. I had no PCs with me, only my old faithful iPhone 3GS. Everything was going great...
View ArticlePortfolio for a Developer. Why not?
Not too much time ago, i was reading an article from Jeff Atwood that was talking about Software Developers and their portfolios (the article can be found here). The bottom line of his article was that...
View ArticleHorizontal Scrolling, Coda Slider 3 and image maps
Lately I’ve been designing a web site, for a client, that needs to be horizontal scrolling. For those of you who are not familiar, a horizontal web site is one that has all the pages embedded in one,...
View ArticleLife without a tablet
If you are following me on twitter, and you should, you’ll know that I was thinking of selling my iPad 2 to buy the iPad mini. That crazy idea came to me after playing around with the mini on an Apple...
View ArticleThe best quote about success: Don’t try!
A few minutes ago a friend of mine posted something that Charles Bukowski wrote, so I decided to go to Wikipedia (bless thy Wikipedia) and read about his life. Oh by miracle I’ve read one of the most...
View ArticleA curious geek: What’s deflation?
Recently I was reading the news and I realized that Greece now has Deflation, aka negative inflation. I was wondering what that means and as it happens, most of my friends work in the finance industry,...
View ArticleCreating a responsive website
Some weeks ago i wrote in twitter that there are no excuses, in this day and age, to have a non responsive website. The web is changing, people are browsing more and more from mobile devices and screen...
View ArticleMigrating from Gmail to FastMail
Lately I’ve been having thoughts of leaving Gmail, mostly due to the fact that I didn’t like ads in my email and because the interface was a bit sluggish from time to time. The latest events with NSA...
View ArticleDeveloping front end apps. The tools i use
Front End developing has changed massively the last couple of years. The introduction of amazing JavaScript frameworks, starting from jQuery to Angularjs and Emberjs, gave the developers the ability to...
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cognitivespace.gr
The site was developed using Drupal 7 CMS, CSS, MySql and PHP. Worked on gathering the requirements, creating the wireframes, developing and delivering the site. The work was done with Thaleia Deniozou...
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agoldenthread.co.uk
A Golden Thread is a site, developed on a JavaScript horizontal slider called Coda. It's a JQuery plugin and allows one page horizontal website. The images and the matterial was made by the artist...
View ArticleCurrent version of my site
After thinking about my site, and looking for a minimal and simple approach i ended up with Jekyll. Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static sites framework written in ruby (which i love btw). It using...
View ArticleMy site v.1
As the title says, for the first iteration of my website i used Drupal 7, MySql, PHP and CSS to implemented. Later on I realized that all this is unnecessary and redesigned it.
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My site v.2
After realizing that Drupal 7 is not needed for my case i decided to polish by PHP skills and learn a little bit about codeigniter. I ended up creating my own, small, simple CMS based on codeigniter....
View ArticleMoving on, with Jekyll
The new year was full of surprises for me. The loss of a loved person can be the instigator for changes in your life. The first change came with moving on to a different house, and that is a glorious...
View ArticleSocial media, online friends and staying in touch
I remember the very first years of social media, older people went crazy about them. I was constantly listening to things like "this isn't socializing", "you are missing the point of human interaction"...
View ArticlePeople don't leave managers, they leave cultures.
I've been reading some articles lately regarding people leaving big corporations. Specifically Jordan Price left Apple and also several people were claiming that you leave managers, not companies. I...
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The future of CSS. CSS Shapes and CSS Masking.
Last week i went to a Meetup and watched a great talk by Razvan Caliman, who works for adobe, named The Expressive Web where he talked about several upcoming CSS features. Some of them are already...
View ArticleWhy Object.observe is the best feature of ES7 so far
For the past year i've been reading a lot about Object.observe and all the magic it will add in our apps. Very recently though i've read that Chrome will be shipping Object.observe soon. I have no idea...
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