<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Sloan Creative Studio</title><description>Blog, web portfolio, lab experiments, and visuals by Chris Sloan.</description><link>https://sloancreative.studio/</link><item><title>A Fresh Canvas: Rebranding, Agentic AI, and Running with Gemini</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-fresh-canvas-rebranding-agentic-ai-and-running-with-gemini/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-fresh-canvas-rebranding-agentic-ai-and-running-with-gemini/</guid><description>Rebuilding Sloan Creative on a fresh domain, shipping with agentic AI at ClickUp and beyond, and dictating a whole post to Gemini on a run.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category><category>AI</category><category>Astro</category><category>Photography</category><category>ClickUp</category></item><item><title>Local development with json-server and JSON:API</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/local-development-with-json-server-and-json-api/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/local-development-with-json-server-and-json-api/</guid><description>Working on projects that have a clear spearation of backend and frontend typically have a good API setup to communicate between both. This makes development on frontend applicat…</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>NgRx Entities: Wrangling the reducers</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/ngrx-entities-wrangling-the-reducers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/ngrx-entities-wrangling-the-reducers/</guid><description>Note: This will be a series of posts around how I moved from custom built reducers and state management with NgRx to use the NgRx Entity library. Previous posts include NgRx Ent…</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>NgRx Entities: Updating the selectors</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/ngrx-entities-updating-the-selectors/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/ngrx-entities-updating-the-selectors/</guid><description>Note: This will be a series of posts around how I moved from custom built reducers and state management with NgRx to use the NgRx Entity library.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>NgRx Entities: Namespaces with TypeScript</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/ngrx-entities-namespaces-with-typescript/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/ngrx-entities-namespaces-with-typescript/</guid><description>Note: This will be a series of posts around how I moved from custom built reducers and state management with NgRx to use the NgRx Entity library.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Intercepting errors with Angular and NgRx</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/intercepting-errors-with-angular-and-ngrx/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/intercepting-errors-with-angular-and-ngrx/</guid><description>Using NgRx for state management has been a great way to store server data across an application. One thing I started to wonder is how could I use this same pattern, but in a dif…</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Angular HTTP interceptors, making development DRY</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/angular-http-interceptors-making-development-dry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/angular-http-interceptors-making-development-dry/</guid><description>I&apos;ve been building on an Angular app for a while now learning and strengthening my way through the ecosystem. As with most Angular apps, they are driven by services that end up…</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Taking Advantage of NgRx Effects</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/taking-advantage-of-ngrx-effects/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/taking-advantage-of-ngrx-effects/</guid><description>Effects in NgRx are awesome. Not only do they utilize RxJS, but they abstract the complex logic from your Angular components to allow for state to be kept. Recently, in my fun s…</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>An easier way to understand Subject and Observable in RxJS</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/an-easier-way-to-understand-subject-and-observable-in-rxjs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/an-easier-way-to-understand-subject-and-observable-in-rxjs/</guid><description>I have been reading up and learning RxJS for a while now and one aspect of the library that I couldn&apos;t quite grasp, until now, was the differences and use cases for an Observabl…</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Guarding for data with NgRx &amp; RxJS</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/guarding-for-data-with-ngrx/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/guarding-for-data-with-ngrx/</guid><description>For the past couple of months, I have been toying around on a fun little project for myself, mostly just to learn and understand NgRx and keep up to speed on the latest Angular.…</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Taking a break</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/taking-a-break/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/taking-a-break/</guid><description>Recently, I came off of a six week, yes six week, sabbatical. UserTesting just introduced this year yearly perks for their employees. The list ranged from gift cards for your fi…</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life</category></item><item><title>API Documentation Made Easy</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/api-documentation-made-easy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/api-documentation-made-easy/</guid><description>I have been doing a little fun side project for myself on and off for the better part of six months. The end goal is to complete it for it to be useful, but as of late it&apos;s been…</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Part 2: SSL on New AWS Host</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/part-2-ssl-on-new-aws-host/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/part-2-ssl-on-new-aws-host/</guid><description>In my last post, Moving to AWS, I explained how I went about moving this site from Gitlab to utilizing AWS. The only thing that I hadn&apos;t finished was making sure it is served ov…</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Moving to AWS</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/moving-to-aws/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/moving-to-aws/</guid><description>UPDATED: After moving things to CloudFront to handle the SSL (see this post), I needed to add a line to the .gitlab-ci.yml file to make sure to invalidate the cache on CloudFront.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Checking out the Vue</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/checking-out-the-vue/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/checking-out-the-vue/</guid><description>I&apos;ve been working with AngularJS for the better half of three years now. I was attracted to it&apos;s opinionated form and how easy it was to setup a simple MV, even though there was…</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>What is your \&quot;one thing\&quot;?</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/what-is-your-one-thing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/what-is-your-one-thing/</guid><description>Since being at UserTesting I have had a couple of roles over the course of the five and half years. From being the sole front-end engineer to becoming that more well rounded ful…</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life</category></item><item><title>Compressing images with Guetzli</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/compressing-images-with-guetzli/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/compressing-images-with-guetzli/</guid><description>Being a front-end developer, one of big things I tend to always worry about is performance. Of course, this worry came with not only time and learning, but also with the introdu…</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>GitLab, the host with the most for the least</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/gitlab-the-host-with-the-most-for-the-least/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/gitlab-the-host-with-the-most-for-the-least/</guid><description>Prior to the switch over for the new site, the old was hosted through ImpDesigns which is a full-service graphic and web design shop in Raleigh, NC. It was my first job out of c…</description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Revamping the old with new tricks</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/revamping-the-old-with-new-tricks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/revamping-the-old-with-new-tricks/</guid><description>It had been close to twelve long years since the first release of my personal website and since then it rarely got an update UI wise. Yes, I would write posts from time to time,…</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Rails, AngularJS, and $http</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/rails-angularjs-and-http/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/rails-angularjs-and-http/</guid><description>It has definitely been a while since the last post — over a year now. Life&apos;s been busy (moved to another state) and so has work, but I&apos;ve been learning lots of new things to use…</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Mongo and Sinatra on Heroku</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/mongo-and-sinatra-on-heroku/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/mongo-and-sinatra-on-heroku/</guid><description>I recently built a small app for Red Bull Records utilizing Sinatra on the backend. They wanted to collect some data from visitors to their site so I figured I would put my feet…</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>A Sinatra run Facebook app</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-sinatra-run-facebook-app/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-sinatra-run-facebook-app/</guid><description>This will be short and sweet as my last post was also about creating a Facebook App.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Digital Swell</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/digital-swell/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/digital-swell/</guid><description>A simple one page splash showcase site for an up and coming advertising and deals space startup.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>JavaScript</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Web Design</category><category>jQuery</category></item><item><title>Utilizing Jekyll with Sinatra on Heroku for a Facebook App</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/utilizing-jekyll-with-sinatra-on-heroku-for-a-facebook-app/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/utilizing-jekyll-with-sinatra-on-heroku-for-a-facebook-app/</guid><description>I love working with Jekyll. It&apos;s very nerdy for what it does since the final output is a static HTML server which is awesome for smallish projects not utilizing a database. Low…</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>A New Experience - Redux</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-new-experience-redux/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-new-experience-redux/</guid><description>Her name would be Addisyn Jo. Would she be like her sister, wild from the start, but knew how to flash you a smile that would melt your heart or would she walk her own beat and…</description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life</category></item><item><title>Digital World Emersion</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/digital-world-emersion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/digital-world-emersion/</guid><description>I was leaving the dentist office after having a checkup and passing the grade of having teeth in good order, when the receptionist handed me a paper card with my next appointmen…</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life</category></item><item><title>Amazon S3 and OGG Content Types</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/amazon-s3-and-ogg-content-types/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/amazon-s3-and-ogg-content-types/</guid><description>Note: This post is more of a reminder to myself and also help out whomever lands here. It took me a couple of good Google searches to figure this one out.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Why owning an iPhone now scares me</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/why-owning-an-iphone-now-scares-me/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/why-owning-an-iphone-now-scares-me/</guid><description>About a month ago, I started a new job. I left my job at RealTravel to move on to a new gig working for a much larger, non-startup, but still in the web industry company called…</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life</category></item><item><title>Ashley and Kris Wedding</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/ashley-and-kris-wedding/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/ashley-and-kris-wedding/</guid><description>This is the website I created for my sister in law to showcase their up and coming wedding. Utilizing Ruby on Rails and hosting through Heroku&apos;s free Dyno, I was able to design,…</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>An iPhone app built in one day</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/an-iphone-app-built-in-one-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/an-iphone-app-built-in-one-day/</guid><description>My buddy Jerrod Blavos hit me up last Friday evening about 8pm. He said he had been working on an iPhone app and needed a user interface to go along with it. Being a designer th…</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category></item><item><title>AspectGadget</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/aspectgadget/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/aspectgadget/</guid><description>A dead simple iPhone app that allows you to calculate proportions of a given size for images and video. If you perform this calculation constantly on a day to day basis and are…</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>Mobile Design</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>iOS</category></item><item><title>Easy form validation with UJS and Rails 3</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/easy-form-validation-with-ujs-and-rails-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/easy-form-validation-with-ujs-and-rails-3/</guid><description>In a previous post, Rails 3, jQuery &amp; UJS, I talked about how easy Rails has made it to do remote forms or even linking to remote actions. It covered how to set up the basics of…</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>A/B test like a boss</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-b-test-like-a-boss/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-b-test-like-a-boss/</guid><description>When the word testing comes to mind, there are many definitions. From using RSpec or Cucumber which test the validity and robustness of the code base to visual testing framework…</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category></item><item><title>SignMeTo Roadrunner Records</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/signmeto-roadrunner-records/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/signmeto-roadrunner-records/</guid><description>A social network for budding artists and bands looking for recognition from scouts and A&amp;R reps to hopefully grab a spot and be signed to Roadrunner Records. I created the front…</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Rails 3, jQuery &amp; UJS</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/rails-3-jquery-ujs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/rails-3-jquery-ujs/</guid><description>The days of old JavaScript where writing events and handlers inline on the html DOM elements have finally passed. Rails 3 has caught up with this movement and no longer will the…</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Withstanding time</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/withstanding-time/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/withstanding-time/</guid><description>First rule of thumb when it comes to logo creation is to pick a typeface that holds up to the changes in design and tastes. A font choice can easily make or break the logo by po…</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Delta Response Team</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/delta-response-team/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/delta-response-team/</guid><description>Tom Walton of Delta Response Team in Appomattox, VA contacted me to get a simple showcase website up for his company he just started. He wanted a site that was modern and flashy…</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Home is where the office is</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/home-is-where-the-office-is/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/home-is-where-the-office-is/</guid><description>For those not familiar with the term telecommuting, has Greek origins with tele meaning distant and commute to travel. Commuting from a distance. This is not your typical commut…</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life</category></item><item><title>Git reflog to the rescue</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/git-reflog-to-the-rescue/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/git-reflog-to-the-rescue/</guid><description>The other day, I was working on a feature for Real Travel using our current branching strategy in that each release we do is a separate branch. Not sure if it was a cause of lac…</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>To HAML or not to HAML</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/to-haml-or-not-to-haml/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/to-haml-or-not-to-haml/</guid><description>I have been developing in table-less HTML for the past eight years. I can say I have a pretty good grasp on its syntax, how it is handled by the browser, what it can and can&apos;t d…</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Real Travel Logo</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/real-travel-logo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/real-travel-logo/</guid><description>Real Travel has decided to take their marketing of hotel shopping towards using social recommendations. I created a humanistic type quality to the logo through use of a thumbs u…</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>Illustrator</category><category>Logo Design</category></item><item><title>A Human Milestone</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-human-milestone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-human-milestone/</guid><description>The other night, I got a sense of nostalgia as I sat in front of my computer pouring over a few hours of unedited video that my wife and I had taken of our daughter since her bi…</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life</category></item><item><title>CAPS</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/caps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/caps/</guid><description>The Georgia-Pacific Big Island plant was starting up a new program to involve their employees and educate them on safety in the industry. They needed an identifiable logo to coi…</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>Illustrator</category><category>Logo Design</category></item><item><title>Finally published, well sort of...</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/finally-published-well-sort-of/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/finally-published-well-sort-of/</guid><description>A couple of months ago, I received an email from Patrick McNeil of The Web Designer&apos;s Idea Book inquiring if I wanted a chance to be included in his next book. I could tell it w…</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Easter mailer card</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/easter-mailer-card/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/easter-mailer-card/</guid><description>Mailing card sent out to friends and family for Haidyn&apos;s first Easter.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Print Design</category></item><item><title>First birthday invitation</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/first-birthday-invitation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/first-birthday-invitation/</guid><description>Haidyn&apos;s first birthday invitation mailing card.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Print Design</category></item><item><title>Wedding shower invitation</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/wedding-shower-invitation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/wedding-shower-invitation/</guid><description>Invitation created using photography I took for engagement pictures to mail out.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Print Design</category></item><item><title>Real Travel recommendation stickers</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/real-travel-recommendation-stickers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/real-travel-recommendation-stickers/</guid><description>Real Travel wanted to let the hotels that are on the website know that they are recommended by Real Travelers. I created stickers utilizing the recommendation badges found on th…</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>Illustrator</category><category>Print Design</category></item><item><title>iPad, maybe there is a use case</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/ipad-maybe-there-is-a-use-case/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/ipad-maybe-there-is-a-use-case/</guid><description>The iPad hubaloo has somewhat died down and it has finally sank in to what it is and isn&apos;t or even could possibly be. Twitter trending topics on the subject matter have also slo…</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life</category></item><item><title>Note to self: Use git clean sparingly</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/note-to-self-use-git-clean-sparingly/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/note-to-self-use-git-clean-sparingly/</guid><description>The other day, I had some merge conflicts to resolve on a project with another team member. Prior to this, I had been developing on the working branch and had created new files.…</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Semantic xHTML Forms</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/semantic-xhtml-forms/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/semantic-xhtml-forms/</guid><description>Working with Ruby on Rails for the past four years has been great. Switching over from the PHP world was pretty easy, yet I do do some coding in that area from time to time. One…</description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Top 6 annoying types of Facebook status posters</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/top-6-annoying-types-of-facebook-status-posters/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/top-6-annoying-types-of-facebook-status-posters/</guid><description>Facebook. It&apos;s the social network that blew away other competition such as MySpace or even the then early-to-the-party-but-forgot-the-gift Friendster. It utilizes it&apos;s simplicit…</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life</category></item><item><title>Sanity saved by Google</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/sanity-saved-by-google/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/sanity-saved-by-google/</guid><description>Note: this post&apos;s four images (pop3.jpg, sendmailas.jpg, sendmailthrough.jpg, leavecopyonserver.jpg) are broken on the original site — the image URLs contain a leftover {filedir…</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life</category></item><item><title>Git remote branching made easy</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/git-remote-branching-made-easy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/git-remote-branching-made-easy/</guid><description>The branching strategy using Git we have adopted at Real Travel allows us to share code branches back and forth, while maintaining a clean master. This also allows for us to dev…</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>A tried and true practice</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-tried-and-true-practice/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-tried-and-true-practice/</guid><description>First starting out in the design world coming directly out of school, I was constantly testing the waters on what the quickest, but most efficient way was to getting a project f…</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Lori Beth and Chris Wedding Site</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/lori-beth-and-chris-wedding-site/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/lori-beth-and-chris-wedding-site/</guid><description>Lori Beth is a childhood friend of my wife and asked me to create her wedding website. Using Expression Engine, putting the site together was a breeze and she is able to edit an…</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Git tag it like it&apos;s hott</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/git-tag-it-like-it-s-hott/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/git-tag-it-like-it-s-hott/</guid><description>At Real Travel we practice SCRUM) which allows us to release a new code base to the live server roughly every two weeks. Since moving to Git we now are able to track our release…</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Git your branching straight</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/git-your-branching-straight/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/git-your-branching-straight/</guid><description>A couple of years ago, a buddy of mine, Jerrod Blavos, turned me onto using Subversion (svn) for our projects that we would work on together. At the time, I was eating up any ne…</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Tweet Sack</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/tweet-sack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/tweet-sack/</guid><description>Collaboration with Jerrod Blavos to make a simple website that pulls in Twitter retweets that contain links. From start to completion the initial web app took two days.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Ruby on Rails</category><category>Web Design</category><category>jQuery</category></item><item><title>Real Travel</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/real-travel/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/real-travel/</guid><description>Joining the Real Travel team in August/September 2008 as their front-end UI developer, the site got a complete overhaul not only in code base but also visually. We figured that…</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Srsly? Pay for followers?</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/srsly-pay-for-followers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/srsly-pay-for-followers/</guid><description>Checking my Twitter profile this morning, I happened to click on one of the links in the sidebar that showcase all the great sister websites that have cropped up from the explos…</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life</category></item><item><title>A fresh look on travel</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-fresh-look-on-travel/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-fresh-look-on-travel/</guid><description>Note: In a previous blog entry, I talked about step one of reworking the Real Travel UI. Here is the completion entry.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category></item><item><title>Trying on a hat for a while</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/trying-on-a-hat-for-a-while/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/trying-on-a-hat-for-a-while/</guid><description>I have been working indirectly with Ruby on Rails for the past four years. I say indirectly as I have focused more on the UI side (views and sometimes the controllers) when it c…</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Sprites, not just a CSS fantasy</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/sprites-not-just-a-css-fantasy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/sprites-not-just-a-css-fantasy/</guid><description>Most designs of sites found on the web verge on the graphical overload to grab the attention of the viewer — if you can accomplish it, do it. I am one myself to do this from tim…</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>What is &apos;this?&apos;</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/what-is-this/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/what-is-this/</guid><description>Just recently, Real Travel started to run into an issue with Internet Explorer alone when it came to Javascript calls. Unfortunately, this issue had been going on for about a we…</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>The wonders of jQuery</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/the-wonders-of-jquery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/the-wonders-of-jquery/</guid><description>Internet Explorer. Those two words are the dread of all web designers who have ever had to throw in CSS hacks to make their pages look correct or even to try and debug erroneous…</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Featured on CSSelite</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/featured-on-csselite/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/featured-on-csselite/</guid><description>I submitted the site a while ago after contacting the developer over there about an issue with their submission form and my email address, who graciously asked for the URLs I wa…</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Kaloo</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/kaloo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/kaloo/</guid><description>Find it on github: Kaloo GitHub Repository</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Projects</category><category>JavaScript</category><category>jQuery</category></item><item><title>An intentional lens flaw</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/an-intentional-lens-flaw/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/an-intentional-lens-flaw/</guid><description>I&apos;ve had Adobe Lightroom installed on my iMac for the past two years. Since I never really had the urge to get back into digital photography, it pretty much sat there with the o…</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>A facelift for travel. Part I.</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-facelift-for-travel-part-i/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/a-facelift-for-travel-part-i/</guid><description>Note: Since this segment of my career has been pretty involved over the past half a year, I am going to have to cut these entries into two parts. There is so much I want to say…</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Life</category></item><item><title>Yes, that is my signature</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/yes-that-is-my-signature/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/yes-that-is-my-signature/</guid><description>The other day, my wife and I made a trip to Walmart to do some grocery shopping. Granted the closest current Walmart is about 20 minutes away — I say &quot;current&quot; because if our to…</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category></item><item><title>Font love</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/font-love/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/font-love/</guid><description>I am probably going to sound like a fan-boy jumping on the band wagon from writing this post, but I have to say I don&apos;t really care. For the past year or so, I have been making…</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Quick, down and dirty layout</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/quick-down-and-dirty-layout/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/quick-down-and-dirty-layout/</guid><description>Since I started using CSS, I have been trying to refine my skills and creating a base set of styles that I would apply to every site I created. Basically they would reset the wh…</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Code</category></item><item><title>Begin Oaks Golf Club</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/begin-oaks-golf-club/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/begin-oaks-golf-club/</guid><description>Back in 2005, I created version two of Begin Oak&apos;s website. My Aunt came to me asking for a better site than they had previously as she wanted to be able to update the informati…</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Carla and Jonathan Wedding Website</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/carla-and-jonathan-wedding-website/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/carla-and-jonathan-wedding-website/</guid><description>Another quick one put together for my wife&apos;s cousin&apos;s wedding. She is a big scrap booker and they were both graduates of Virginia Tech, so I thought the theme of the website wou…</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Hot Rock</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/hot-rock/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/hot-rock/</guid><description>This is a collaboration project with Paul Hepworth for a product that produces unbelievable taste! The owner first approached Paul five years ago for the first version of the si…</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Kristen and Chris Wedding Website</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/kristen-and-chris-wedding-website/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/kristen-and-chris-wedding-website/</guid><description>This is definitely an old one. This is the site that I developed for our wedding back in 2006 to help inform people about the date and location. It utilizes a custom PHP CMS tha…</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>PHP</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Web Design</category></item><item><title>Our Baby Sloan</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/our-baby-sloan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/our-baby-sloan/</guid><description>What better way to tell the world about our first born than her own personal website. Our family and friends are all over the country so we figured we would need a place to post…</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>ExpressionEngine</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Web Design</category></item><item><title>RecCenter</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/reccenter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/reccenter/</guid><description>For about a year and a half, I was the front-end developer and designer for RecCenter.com. It was a music and culture centric social network startup. Unfortunately, things slowe…</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>CMS Land Investments</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/cms-land-investments/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/cms-land-investments/</guid><description>Visit the site (www.cmslandinvestments.com)</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>ExpressionEngine</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Web Design</category></item><item><title>Imp Designs</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/imp-designs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/imp-designs/</guid><description>My old design house, Imp Designs, I worked at asked me to create their new website design. Their old one had been present for the past two years and needed an overhaul. I create…</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>Illustrator</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Web Design</category></item><item><title>American Welding &amp; Engineering</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/american-welding-engineering/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/american-welding-engineering/</guid><description>I created the design and did the initial xHTML/CSS and JavaScript coding which Imp Designs in turn did the Expression Engine coding side.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>Illustrator</category><category>JavaScript</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Web Design</category></item><item><title>Audubon Environmental</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/audubon-environmental/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/audubon-environmental/</guid><description>Another collaboration through Imp Designs with doing the Photoshop mockup and initial xHTML/CSS template. Also created a flash banner animation for the homepage.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>Flash</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Web Design</category></item><item><title>Bradley Roofing</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/bradley-roofing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/bradley-roofing/</guid><description>Visit the site (www.bradleyroofinginc.com)</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Web Design</category></item><item><title>Homewarmth</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/homewarmth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/homewarmth/</guid><description>Unfortunately, this site is no longer available for viewing.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Web Design</category></item><item><title>Joel Lane Museum House</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/joel-lane-museum-house/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/joel-lane-museum-house/</guid><description>Joel Lane House is the birth place of North Carolina&apos;s capital city and they needed a new updated design to show case their history. Through Imp Designs, I created the design an…</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>JavaScript</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Web Design</category></item><item><title>State Law Resources</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/state-law-resources/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/state-law-resources/</guid><description>Unfortunately, this site is no longer available for viewing.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category><category>PhotoShop</category><category>Web Design</category></item><item><title>The Cake Walk</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/the-cake-walk/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/the-cake-walk/</guid><description>The Cake Walk located in Cary, NC contacted Imp Designs to redesign their existing site. Once again, I created the design and did the template for the site which they ultimately…</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Design</category></item><item><title>Mookiss Controls</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/mookiss-controls/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/mookiss-controls/</guid><description>Currently gathering my thoughts about this project. For now, please visit the GitHub repository. Mookiss on GitHub</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Projects</category><category>JavaScript</category></item><item><title>Oyoyo</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/oyoyo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/oyoyo/</guid><description>Currently gathering my thoughts about this project. For now, please visit the GitHub repository. Oyoyo on GitHub</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Projects</category><category>JavaScript</category></item><item><title>Interaction with Facebook UI</title><link>https://sloancreative.studio/blog/interaction-with-facebook-ui/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sloancreative.studio/blog/interaction-with-facebook-ui/</guid><description>As a web designer, I find it very interesting how the end user interacts with a web application. From simple management sites such as Backpack or Basecamp by 37 Signals to the f…</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>User Experience</category></item></channel></rss>