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SOLVING LIFE'S HARD PROBLEMS

How Much is Too Much?

social media

Marketing

Small businesses often times have a hard time integrating a cogent social media strategy into their marketing. Unless you have a budget to hire an outside firm or to establish an experienced in-house team, you are probably stuck with figuring things out as you go along. One of the most daunting

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Drupal 8, JSONAPI and Ember Part 3: How to Render All The Things

Welcome to Part 3! Time to dive deeper into templating and seeing how Ember Data makes working with data models super easy.

Setting up your first Mastodon instance

Mastodon is a relatively young social network that aims to be a privacy concious, federated Twitter. Most people opt to join one of the larger servers (tooter.today can help find one if you want) but you and I are not most people. We like

La Meme Chose

A little over 10 years ago two young creatives working in advertising moved to Paris not speaking French. They quickly learned that the phase “La meme chose” roughly translates into “I’ll have the same”. This one little phrase unlocked a

3 Keys to Success from a Remote Pro

I've been doing at least part of my job remotely since 2004. In 2011, I started working 100% remote and moved 750 miles away from my employer to Kansas City in the middle of 2012. Throughout the years I've faced several challenges to remote

Matching Heights

In web development, there are standards and then there are some things that you can do just to make your site look a little nicer. Matching row heights is one thing that will make your site look less sloppy and more professional

Authenticity: Keys to Increasing the Client Connection

Recently, everyone here at Code Koalas read a book by Dale Carnegie called How To Win Friends and Influence People. Carnegie hit on something that is at the core of humanity: authenticity is the key to making and maintaining real

JSONAPI: Relationships and Includes

In my last blog, I briefly showed some of the things JSONAPI can do. Say you want the image to be returned with your blog. By default, field_image is a file reference, which means it will actually only return the target_id of the referenced

Writing an SVG in your HTML

SaVaGe HTML SVG stand for Scalable Vector Graphics. As opposed to having a static .jpg or .png file for images, SVGs are essentially combinations of shapes combined to make one object (in layman’s terms). SVGs are scalable, because the

Lessons Learned about React-Native Development

For a lot of React web developers React-Native may offer the first opportunity to create native-like applications and they may find the ecosystem is an entirely different beast. Other developers may have used Ionic, which is a different