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What Are The Essential Tools For Painting?

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Published On :: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:41:10 PDT

Painting a room can be a scary venture. Once you have got chosen on the unused color for the room, you’re prepared to begin. Maler has prepared a list of necessary equipment you may need during...


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Why Choosing The Best Web Hosting Is Crucial For Your Business

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Published On :: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:49:11 PDT

Not many business owners think about hosting when building a new website for their business. But failing to choose the right web hosting can have a great impact on your website and, of course, your...


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5 Tips For Doing A Fantastic Graphic Project

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Published On :: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:00:24 PDT

You’ve probably had the experience of browsing other people’s graphic projects and wishing you could achieve such effects too. In order to accomplish that, you should expand your knowledge by...


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Creative Marketing Strategies For Law Firms To Engage With Potential Clients

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Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:20:57 PDT

The success of any organization strongly depends on the marketing strategies they use to reach their potential customers. Law firms are no exception since they also operate in a competitive field...


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Where To Find Some Papers For Sale

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Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 07:01:33 PDT

If you look for a place to find academic papers for sale, you should know that there are lots of writing services on the Internet. But your task is to find a reliable online resource that would offer...


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To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed

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Published On :: Monday, August 20, 2018 - 2:46pm

I wish I had found Alix Kates Shulman’s memoir "To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed" in the first month of my husband’s severe TBI, and yet I may not have absorbed it the way I did reading it fifteen years post-injury.


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Setting New Project Managers Up for Success

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Published On :: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:00:00 -0400

At Viget, we’ve brought on more than a few new Project Managers over the past couple of years, as we continue to grow. The awesome new people we’ve hired have ranged in their levels of experience, but some of them are earlier in their careers and need support from more experienced PMs to develop their skills and flourish.

We have different levels of training and support for new PMs. These broadly fall into four categories:

  • Onboarding: Learning about Viget tools and processes
  • Shadowing: Learning by watching others
  • Pairing: Learning by doing collaboratively
  • Leading: Learning by doing solo

Onboarding

In addition to conducting intro sessions to each discipline at Viget, new Viget PMs go through a lengthy set of training sessions that are specific to the PM lab. These include intros to:

PM tools and resourcesProject processes
Project typesProject checklists
Project taskingProject planning
Budgets, schedules, and resourcingRetrospectives
Working with remote teamsProject kickoffs
Thinking about developmentGithub and development workflow
Tickets, definition, and documentationQA testing
Account management

Shadowing

After PMs complete the onboarding process, they start shadowing other PMs’ projects to get exposure to the different types of projects we run (since the variety is large). We cater length and depth of shadowing based on how much experience a PM has coming in. We also try to expose PMs to multiple project managers, so they can see how PM style differs person-to-person.

We’ve found that it can be most effective to have PMs shadow activities that are more difficult to teach in theory, such as shadowing a PM having a difficult conversation with a client, or shadowing a front-end build-out demo to see how the PM positions the meeting and our process to the client. More straightforward tasks like setting up a Harvest project could be done via pairing, since it’s easy to get the hang of with a little guidance.

Pairing

While shadowing is certainly helpful, we try to get PMs into pairing mode pretty quickly, since we’ve found that most folks learn better by doing than by watching. Sometimes this might mean having a new PM setting up an invoice or budget sheet for a client while a more experienced PM sits next to them, talking them through the process. We’ve found that having a newer PM lead straightforward activities with guidance tends to be more effective than the newer PM merely watching the more experienced PM do that activity.

Another tactic we take is to have both PMs complete a task independently, and then meet and talk through their work, with the more experienced PM giving the less experienced PM feedback. That helps the newer PM think through a task on their own, and gain experience, but still have the chance to see how someone else would have approached the task and get meaningful feedback.

Leading

Once new PMs are ready to be in the driver’s seat, they are staffed as the lead on projects. The timing of when someone shifts into a lead role depends on how much prior experience that person has, as well as what types of projects are actively ready to be worked on.

Most early-career project managers have a behind-the-scenes project mentor (another PM) on at least their first couple projects, so they have a dedicated person to ask questions and get advice from who also has more detailed context than that person’s manager would. For example, mentors often shadow key client and internal meetings and have more frequent check-ins with mentees. This might be less necessary at a company where all the projects are fairly similar, but at Viget, our projects vary widely in scale and services provided, as well as client needs. Because of this, there’s no “one size fits all” process and we have a significant amount of customization per project, which can be daunting to new PMs who are still getting the hang of things.

For these mentorship pairings, we use a mentorship plan document (template here) to help the mentor and mentee work together to define goals, mentorship focuses, and touchpoints. Sometimes the mentee’s manager will take a first stab at filling out the plan, other times, the mentor will start that process.

Management Touchpoints

Along the way, we make sure new PMs have touchpoints with their managers to get the level of support they need to grow and succeed. Managers have regular 1:1s with PMs that are referred to as “project 1:1s”, and are used for the managee to talk through and get advice on challenges or questions related to the projects they’re working on—though really, they can be used for whatever topics are on the managee’s mind. PMs typically have 1:1s with managers daily the first week, two to three times per week after that for the first month or so, then scale down to once per week, and then scale down to bi-weekly after the first six months.

In addition to project 1:1s, we also have monthly 1:1s that are more bigger-picture and focused on goal-setting and progress, project feedback from that person’s peers, reflection on how satisfied and fulfilled they’re feeling in their role, and talking through project/industry interests which informs what projects we should advocate for them to be staffed on. We have a progress log template that we customize per PM to keep track of goals and progress.

We try to foster a supportive environment that encourages growth, feedback, and experiential learning, but also that lets folks have the autonomy to get in the driver’s seat as soon as they’re comfortable. Interested in learning more about what it’s like to work at Viget? Check out our open positions here.


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CLI Equivalents for Common MAMP PRO and Sequel Pro Tasks

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Published On :: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Working on website front ends I sometimes use MAMP PRO to manage local hosts and Sequel Pro to manage databases. Living primarily in my text editor, a terminal, and a browser window, moving to these click-heavy dedicated apps can feel clunky. Happily, the tasks I have most frequently turned to those apps for —starting and stopping servers, creating new hosts, and importing, exporting, deleting, and creating databases— can be done from the command line.

I still pull up MAMP PRO if I need to change a host's PHP version or work with its other more specialized settings, or Sequel Pro to quickly inspect a database, but for the most part I can stay on the keyboard and in my terminal. Here's how:

Command Line MAMP PRO

You can start and stop MAMP PRO's servers from the command line. You can even do this when the MAMP PRO desktop app isn't open.

Note: MAMP PRO's menu icon will not change color to reflect the running/stopped status when the status is changed via the command line.

  • Start the MAMP PRO servers:
/Applications/MAMP PRO.app/Contents/MacOS/MAMP PRO cmd startServers
  • Stop the MAMP PRO servers:
/Applications/MAMP PRO.app/Contents/MacOS/MAMP PRO cmd stopServers
  • Create a host (replace host_name and root_path):
/Applications/MAMP PRO.app/Contents/MacOS/MAMP PRO cmd createHost host_name root_path

MAMP PRO-friendly Command Line Sequel Pro

Note: if you don't use MAMP PRO, just replace the /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql with mysql.

In all of the following commands, replace username with your user name (locally this is likely root) and database_name with your database name. The -p (password) flag with no argument will trigger an interactive password prompt. This is more secure than including your password in the command itself (like -pYourPasswordHere). Of course, if you're using the default password root is not particular secure to begin with so you might just do -pYourPasswordHere.

Setting the -h (host) flag to localhost or 127.0.0.1 tells mysql to look at what's on localhost. With the MAMP PRO servers running, that will be the MAMP PRO databases.

# with the MAMP PRO servers running, these are equivalent:
# /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql -h 127.0.0.1 other_options
# and
# /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql -h localhost other_options

/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql mysql_options # enter. opens an interactive mysql session
mysql> some command; # don't forget the semicolon
mysql> exit;
  • Create a local database
# with the MAMP PRO servers running
# replace `username` with your username, which is `root` by default
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql -h localhost -u username -p -e "create database database_name"

or

# with the MAMP PRO servers running
# replace `username` (`root` by default) and `database_name`
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql -h localhost -u username -p # and then enter
mysql> create database database_name; # don't forget the semicolon
mysql> exit

    MAMP PRO's databases are stored in /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/db so to confirm that it worked you can

ls /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/db
# will output the available mysql versions. For example I have
mysql56_2018-11-05_16-25-13     mysql57

# If it isn't clear which one you're after, open the main MAMP PRO and click
# on the MySQL "servers and services" item. In my case it shows "Version: 5.7.26"

# Now look in the relevant MySQL directory
ls /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/db/mysql57
# the newly created database should be in the list
  • Delete a local database
# with the MAMP PRO servers running
# replace `username` (`root` by default) and `database_name`
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql -h localhost -u username -p -e "drop database database_name"
  • Export a dump of a local database. Note that this uses mysqldump not mysql.
# to export an uncompressed file
# replace `username` (`root` by default) and `database_name`
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqldump -h localhost -u username -p database_name > the/output/path.sql

# to export a compressed file
# replace `username` (`root` by default) and `database_name`
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqldump -h localhost -u username -p database_name | gzip -c > the/output/path.gz

  • Export a local dump from an external database over SSH. Note that this uses mysqldump not mysql.

# replace `ssh-user`, `ssh_host`, `mysql_user`, `database_name`, and the output path

# to end up with an uncompressed file
ssh ssh_user@ssh_host "mysqldump -u mysql_user -p database_name | gzip -c" | gunzip > the/output/path.sql

# to end up with a compressed file
ssh ssh_user@ssh_host "mysqldump -u mysql_user -p database_name | gzip -c" > the/output/path.gz
  • Import a local database dump into a local database
# with the MAMP PRO servers running
# replace `username` (`root` by default) and `database_name`
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql -h localhost -u username -p database_name < the/dump/path.sql
  • Import a local database dump into a remote database over SSH. Use care with this one. But if you are doing it with Sequel Pro —maybe you are copying a Craft site's database from a production server to a QA server— you might as well be able to do it on the command line.
ssh ssh_user@ssh_host "mysql -u username -p remote_database_name" < the/local/dump/path.sql


For me, using the command line instead of the MAMP PRO and Sequel Pro GUI means less switching between keyboard and mouse, less opening up GUI features that aren't typically visible on my screen, and generally better DX. Give it a try! And while MAMP Pro's CLI is limited to the essentials, command line mysql of course knows no limits. If there's something else you use Sequel Pro for, you may be able to come up with a mysql CLI equivalent you like even better.


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Should you use Userbase for your next static site?

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Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 08:00:00 -0400

During the winter 2020 Pointless Weekend, we built TrailBuddy (working app coming soon). Our team consisted of four developers, two project managers, two front-end developers, a digital-analyst, a UXer, and a designer. In about 48 hours, we took an idea from Jeremy Field’s head to a (mostly) working app. We broke up the project in two parts:. First, a back-end that crunches trail, weather, and soil data. That data is exposed via a GraphQL API for a web app to consume.

While developers built the API, I built a static front end using Next.js. Famously, static front-ends don’t have a database, or a concept of “users.” A bit of functionality I wanted to add was saving favorite trails. I didn’t want to be hacky about it, I needed some way to add users and a database. I knew it’d be hard for the developers to set this up as part of the API, they had their hands full with all the #soil-soil-soil-soil-soil (a slack channel dedicated solely to figuring out our soil data problem—those were plentiful.) I had been looking for an excuse to use Userbase, and this seemed like as good a time as any.

A textbook Userbase use case

“When would I use it?” The Usebase site lists these reasons:

  • If you want to build a web app without writing any backend code.
  • If you never want to see your users' data.
  • If you're tired of dealing with databases.
  • If you want to radically simplify your GDPR compliance.
  • And if you want to keep things really simple.

This was a perfect fit for my problem. I didn’t want to write any more backend code for this. I didn’t want to see our user’s data, I don’t care to know anyone’s favorite trails.* A nice bonus to not having users in our backend was not having to worry about keeping their data safe. We don’t have their data at all, it’s end-to-end encrypted by Userbase. We can offer a reasonable amount of privacy for free (well for the price of using Userbase: $49 a year.) I am not tired of dealing with databases, but I’d rather not. I don’t think anyone doesn’t want to simplify their GDPR compliance. Finally, given our tight timeline I wanted nothing more than to keep things really simple.

A sign up form that I didn't have to write a back-end for

Using Userbase

Userbase can be tried for free, so I set aside thirty minutes or so to do a quick proof of concept to make sure this would work out for us. I made an account and followed their Quickstart. Userbase is a fundamentally easy tool to use, but their quickstart is everything I’d want out of a quickstart:

  • Written in the most vanilla way possible (just HTML and vanilla JS). This means I can adapt it to my needs, in this case React using Next.js
  • Easy to follow, it does the most barebones tour of the functionality you can expect to get out of the SDK (software development kit.) In other words it is quick and it is a start
  • It has a live demo and code samples you can download and run yourself

It didn’t take long after that to integrate Userbase into our app with more help from their great docs. I debated whether to add code samples of what we did here, and I didn’t because any reader would be better off using the great quickstart and docs Userbase provides—they are that clear, and that good. Depending on your use case you’ll need to adapt the examples to your needs, for us the trickiest things were creating a top level authentication context to manage users in the app, and a custom hook to encapsulate all the logic for setting, updating, and deleting favourite trails in the app. Userbase’s SDK worked seamlessly for us.

A log in form that I didn't have to write a back-end for

Is Userbase for you?

Maybe. I am definitely a fan, so much so that this blog post probably reads like an advert. Userbase saved me a ton of time in this project. It reminded me of “The All Powerful Front End Developer” talk by Chris Coyer. I don’t fully subscribe to all the ideas in that talk, but it is nice to have “serverless” tools like Userbase, and all the new JAMstacky things. There are limits to the Userbase serverless experience in terms of scale, and control. Obviously relying on a third party for something always carries some (probably small) risk—it’s worth noting Usebase includes a note on their pricing page that says “You can host it yourself always under your control, or we can run it for you for a full serverless experience”—Still, I wouldn’t hesitate this to use in future projects.

One of the great things about Viget and Pointless Weekend is the opportunity to try new things. For me that was Next.js and Userbase for Trailbuddy. It doesn’t always work out (in fact this is my first pointless weekend where a risk hasn’t blown up in my face) but it is always fun. Getting to try out Userbase and beginning to think about how we may use it in the future made the weekend worthwhile for me, and it made my job on this project much more enjoyable.

*I will write a future post about privacy conscious analytics in TrailBuddy when I’ve figured that out. I am looking into Fathom Analytics for that.


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"I always hated that word—marketing—and I hate it now. Because for me, and this may sound simplistic,..."

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Published On :: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:20:00 -0700

““I always hated that word—marketing—and I hate it now. Because for me, and this may sound simplistic, the key to marketing is to make something people want. When they want it, they buy it. When they buy it, you have sales. So the product has to speak. The product is what markets things.””

- Interview with Tom Ford.


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Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript

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Published On :: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:38:07 +0000

Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript, code named River Trail, hooks into on-chip vector extensions to improve performance of Web applications. Details of Intel’s attempt to get on the JavaScript juggernaut emerged last month at its developer event. The prototype JavaScript extension offered by Intel is intended to allow JavaScript apps to take advantage of modern parallel Read the rest...


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Adobe to forgo Flash plug-in for mobile devices

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Published On :: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:04:13 +0000

Earlier this week, Adobe VP and General Manager Danny Winokur disclosed that the company has concluded that HTML5 is ”the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.” The company said it would stop building Flash to run on mobile browsers. In a blog post on the new focus of Read the rest...


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HipHop Virtual Machine for PHP

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Published On :: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:15:51 +0000

Facebook Software Engineer and HipHop for PHP team member Jason Evans provides details on Facebook’s move to a new high-performance PHP virtual machine. Described by Evans is ”a new PHP execution engine based on the HipHop language runtime that we call the HipHop Virtual Machine (hhvm).” He sees it as replacement for the HipHop PHP Read the rest...


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ASPIRE: An Acronym for Better Web Practice

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Published On :: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:13:17 +0000

Sometimes interesting things happen on Twitter. Last week Scott Jehl proposed ASPIRE as an acronym for the practices we should follow as web designers and developers. From the resulting blog post: Great websites should aspire to be: Accessible to folks with varying cognitive and physical abilities and disabilities Secure and reliable for storing, manipulating, and transferring information Performant on average devices […]

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14 Visual Content Marketing Statistics to Know for 2019

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Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:54:22 +0000

Online marketing with visual content continues to grow and drive tons of traffic. The team at Venngage gathered together the latest data in the 14 Visual Content Marketing Statistics to Know for 2019 infographic and built it using their own tool.

From Nadya Khoja at Venngage:

Two years ago I asked 300 different online marketers to help me figure out how they were using visual content as part of their marketing strategies in 2016 and their predictions for 2017.

This year I wanted to see if there were any changes in how marketers were creating visuals, and what kind of content engagement they were seeing.

I also asked a couple of additional questions to see how the use of various visual formats impacted their blogging strategies.

Conclusion:

The data says it all–visual content isn’t going anywhere any time soon. Not only are more brands leveraging the use for of visuals for various social media platforms, but there is a lot of added benefit when it comes to SEO and organic rankings as well, particularly in Google’s image search results.

And of course, creating engaging visual content is a surefire way to resonate with your audience and communicate your ideas more effectively.

There are a few things to unravel here:

  • It’s good survey data, but take it with a grain of salt. Venngage is a visual design tool, sharing data about visual content marketing.

  • The infographic is a fantastic format to summarize the survey results and use in social media to draw in readers to the full article.

  • The infographic is built using Venngage, so it’s also a great way to showcase what their design tool is capable of. In fact, clicking on the infographic gives you the opportunity to use this design as a template for designing your own infographic.

  • Sections 5 & 10 are disappointing visually. There are no data visualizations, just a bunch of percentage values shown in text.

  • I’m not a fan of the bright color scheme, and it’s visually distracting from highlighting insights in the data.

  • The article still references 2018 data, even though the infographic has been updated with newer data from 2019.


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Social Media Content Trends for 2020

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Published On :: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 21:58:14 +0000

Social media is predicted to continue to be a big tool for businesses in 2020. Big surprise. The Social Media Content Trends for 2020 and Beyond infographic from MicroCreatives lays out their predictions for upcoming trends.

Before the inception of social media marketing, brands used traditional marketing channels to reach out to and engage with consumers. Online social networks have made communicating with consumers a breeze and marketing easier and highly targeted for brands.

By 2020, more than 5 billion people will use social media platforms—that’s roughly two-thirds of the world’s population. Now is the perfect time to get started with social media marketing if you haven’t been doing so already. If you’re already doing it, how is it going for you so far? Perhaps it’s time to evaluate and update your social media content strategy to stay relevant and get ahead of the competition.

Here are some content trends we anticipate to be popular across social media in 2020 and the coming years. See what could work for your brand and start planning ahead.

Sometimes an infographic is a great way to summarize a larger, in-depth article. This is a good example that keeps the text in the infographic short & sweet because the article contains the longer descriptions.

They definitely missed out on using data visualization for the statistics though! Big mistake! They are completely lost in the text, and have no visual impact on the audience.

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10 Things To Do Before Any Video Interview

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Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 16:00:37 +0000

We’re all working from home, and that include job interviews, news interviews, class lectures, webinars, presentations to customers and even just business meetings. The 10 Things to Do Before Any Video Interview infographic from Kickresume is a great last-minute checklist before you turn on your webcam!

In the end, you can take this infographic as a checklist. You can use it to prepare for your job interview or any other video conference call.

And, oh boy, are we going to make many more of those. Sure, it took a global pandemic for companies to recognize the value of working from home but now there’s no going back. Video conference calls are here to stay. (I personally hate it but even I should probably get used to it. Damn.)

Anyway, good luck at your job interview!

I would have preferred more visual elements, but I like that this is a tightly focused infographic with a clear, useful message to a broad audience. This is one of the best uses for an infographic: an informative topic, related to the industry of the publishing company, with a popular, trending topic. This design checks all the boxes.

Designers have to remember that the infographic image file will often be shared by itself, so it always helps to include a few more thins in the footer:

  • The Infographic Landing Page URL (not just the company home page). This will help readers find the full infographic and the article that went along with it. Don’t make people search for it on your website.

  • A copyright or Creative Commons statement is always a good idea when you publishing an infographic


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Santa Fe National Forest Spared From Fracking

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Published On :: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 19:20:22 +0000

WildEarth Guardians Press Release Federal Court Overturns Leasing of Lands to Oil and Gas Industry SANTA FE, NM — In a victory for New Mexico’s air, climate, and water, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico today … Continue reading →


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California Study: Four Widely Used Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees

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Published On :: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 18:33:52 +0000

Center for Biological Diversity Press Release WASHINGTON – Four commonly used neonicotinoid pesticides can harm bees and other pollinators, according to a new analysis by California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation. The study found that current approved uses of the “neonics” … Continue reading →


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Urging Multi-Pronged Effort to Halt Climate Crisis, Scientists Say Protecting World’s Forests as Vital as Cutting Emissions

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Published On :: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 19:38:06 +0000

By Julia  Conley Common Dreams “Our message as scientists is simple: Our planet’s future climate is inextricably tied to the future of its forest.” With a new statement rejecting the notion that drastically curbing emissions alone is enough to curb … Continue reading →


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‘Warning Bells Going Off’ as NOAA Forecasts Entire Great Barrier Reef at Risk of Coral Bleaching and Death

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Published On :: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:20:14 +0000

By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams “This is a wake-up call,” says one Australian marine biologist. “Given sea temperatures usually increase as we get towards March, this is probably conservative.” Delivering yet another “wake-up call” after recent studies have shown that … Continue reading →


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Finnish Air Force FA-18C Hornet

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Published On :: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 06:23:53 -0700

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New EPA Web Portal Helps Communities Prepare for Climate Change

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Published On :: Thu, 06 Oct 2016 19:18:57 +0000

By The EPA The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today launched a new online portal that will provide local leaders in the nation’s 40,000 communities with information and tools to increase resilience to climate change. Using a self-guided format, the … Continue reading →


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Leonardo DiCaprio Premiers “Before the Flood” Climate Change Documentary

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Published On :: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:22:20 +0000

Environmental activist and Academy Award®-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens premier their documentary film, Before the Flood, a compelling account of the powerful changes occurring on our planet due to climate change. Before the Flood will … Continue reading →


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‘Warning Bells Going Off’ as NOAA Forecasts Entire Great Barrier Reef at Risk of Coral Bleaching and Death

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Published On :: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:20:14 +0000

By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams “This is a wake-up call,” says one Australian marine biologist. “Given sea temperatures usually increase as we get towards March, this is probably conservative.” Delivering yet another “wake-up call” after recent studies have shown that … Continue reading →


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'And the award goes to...' How to avoid winning a Procrustes Award for bad UX

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Published On :: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 07:48:51 GMT

We're familiar with awarding prizes for excellence, from the Oscars to The International Design Awards. But what if we started giving prizes to shame bad examples of design? Enter the Procrustes Awards.


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5 Critical Lessons Learned Organizing WordCamp Ann Arbor for the Third Time

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Published On :: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:20:42 +0000

In early 2014 I had just gotten married and recently moved into a new home. With two major life events out of the way, I decided I was ready to lead a WordCamp. I originally planned to organize WordCamp Detroit. I was an organizer twice before and the event had missed a year and I […]

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Illustrations for Demetre's Winter Sweet Menu

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Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 04:00:46 +0000

Illustrations for Demetre's Winter Sweet Menu

AoiroStudioMay 04, 2020

It’s a bit of an old project by Sean Lewis but I thought it was perfectly suited for ABDZ. During these pandemic times, we had to find ways to be more creative with our daily lives. I think we all did somehow. For my case, now I am currently living in Switzerland, I still remember the simple walks that I would take with the family especially early in the morning. And I remember having conversations with my oldest kid who never saw huge mountains covered in snow, and he kept saying that it looked like ice cream (being a huge fan of ice cream). That’s why I thought about sharing Sean’s work, the little but simple memories that goes through your mind. Life is simple and filled with opportunities to be remembered. Thank you Sean.

 

About Sean Lewis

Sean is a fellow Canadian (hi!) and is an illustrator based in Toronto, Canada. Make sure to check out his work for more illustrations via his Behance profile.


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It’s A Living Mural for X-Games China & Innersect

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It’s A Living Mural for X-Games China & Innersect

AoiroStudioMay 05, 2020

I think Fabio and I are on a challenge to keep the ABDZ homepage in color tones of 'pastel visuals'. It's perfect because I stumbled across the new project from It's A Living aka Ricardo Gonzalez for X-Games China & Innersect 2019 in Shanghai, China. I don't know if you are familiar or not by Ricardo's distinct lettering style but it's just plain beautiful and vibrant. INNERSECT is the biggest street culture convention in China, a street fashion project founded by celebrity icon Edison Chen in 2017. Feast your eyes!

About It’s A Living

AKA Ricardo Gonzalez is an incredible artist who has worked through many collaborations and his lettering style is so unique. Make sure to check out his links.


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A set of key visuals for Nike Shanghai

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A set of key visuals for Nike Shanghai

AoiroStudioMay 06, 2020

I think this is going to break our visual pattern but this is totally worth it. This is the work from How Wei Zhong who art directed this massive campaign for Nike Shanghai in collaboration with the folks from ILoveDust. It's quite refreshing since first of all it's collaborative participation and obviously the end-result that is just purely vibrant and amazing. To share a little bit of background on this project (in their words). “Qiang Diao” is Chinese for confidence, swagger and game.

And in a city as image and style conscious as Shanghai, Qiang Diao is something many people want for themselves. Nike wanted Shanghai athletes to know that sports can offer you more than fitness. We created OOH celebrating Shanghainese athletes well-known for their strong personalities and, of course, having Qiang Diao.

About How Wei Zhong

How Wei Zhong is an art director at W+K Shanghai based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You should definitely check his work, it’s filled with incredible works for brands. Give him some love.


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Branding and Visual Identity for Potency Design

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Branding and Visual Identity for Potency Design

abduzeedoMay 08, 2020

Guilherme Vissotto and Victor Berriel shared a branding and visual identity project for Potency Agency. The details about the project are quite scarce, they didn’t add any description. Based on the work itself I assume it’s for a design studio/agency. The presentation is beautiful. The color palette is also very well selected. The logo plays with white space to mix the lightning and the P. They do an excellent job, however I am not really a fan of the shadow. It adds a good depth, but in some of the examples, the shadow feels too strong. Perhaps, just the pure symbol without any effect would suffice. What are your thoughts?

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10 Best Restaurant Menu Plugins for WordPress (Compared)

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Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 05:08:24 +0000

Want to add a food menu to your restaurant website? Publishing your restaurant menu on your website comes in handy especially if you’re providing an online restaurant reservation or online food delivery. That way your users can figure out the available food options without having to walk into your restaurant. In this article, we’ll show […]

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How to Create a Full-Screen Welcome Mat Optin Form in WordPress

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Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:27:00 +0000

Want to create a full-screen optin form in WordPress? Love it or hate it… using a welcome mat is one of the easiest ways to capture your users’ attention. Even big brands like Forbes use a welcome mat to promote their campaigns. In this article, we’ll show you how to properly create a welcome mat […]

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How to Create a “Google Forms Style” Form in WordPress

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Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:06:16 +0000

Want to create “Google Forms style” forms for your WordPress website? A lot of publishers choose Google Forms to create a survey because it provides a distraction-free landing page dedicated to the form. If you want to create a distraction-free landing page specifically for your form, but don’t want to use a third-party app, like […]

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How to Properly Create a Wholesale Order Form in WordPress

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Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:01:01 +0000

Want to create a wholesale order form in WordPress? If you’re a wholesaler looking to get online, but don’t want to manage a full-fledged eCommerce store, then you might want to consider adding a simple wholesale order form to your WordPress site. In this article, we’ll show you how to properly create a simple wholesale […]

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12 Best GoDaddy Alternatives for Domain & Web Hosting (2020)

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Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 05:31:34 +0000

Are you looking for the best GoDaddy alternative for domain registration and web hosting? Without a doubt, Godaddy is one of the most popular names when it comes to registering domain names and hosting your business online. Over the last 22 years, GoDaddy has managed to establish a stronghold in the market. In this article, […]

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9 Best Staging Plugins for Your WordPress Website (Compared)

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Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 07:06:53 +0000

Are you looking for a good staging plugin to test your experiments before it goes live? A staging site is a replica of your website where you can experiment with new features, plugins, and updates before you push them to your live website. That way you can find and fix bugs without having to worry […]

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WPForms vs. Google Forms – Which One is Best? (Compared)

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Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:16:23 +0000

Looking to build an online form on your WordPress site? Not sure whether you should use WPForms or Google Forms? Both WPForms and Google Forms are two great options for small and medium scale businesses. But when you dig deeper, you’ll find a few key differences between these 2 form builders. To help you find […]

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For Veterans with TBI and PTSD, Finding Your Best Path in College

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Published On :: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Whether taking classes online or finding a seat in a lecture hall that makes you feel safe, Adam shares ideas for vets with TBI and PTSD returning to school.


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Using Funds from Disability Compensation and the GI Bill for Going Back to School

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Published On :: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:00:00 EST

Receiving service-related disability compensation does not interfere with the funds veterans receive from the GI Bill, explains Adam.


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Advice for Caregivers: Walking in the Shoes of a Loved One with TBI and/or PTSD

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Adam offers advice to caregivers of a loved one with TBI and/or PTSD — from simply trying to see how that person's life has changed to helping him get involved in confidence-boosting activities.


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