Announcing Panda Zebra!

by jon on June 22, 2010

My wife and I have just started a daily photo blog! It's called pandazebra or P&Z or pandazebra.com.

As we're both leaving Canada this evening, we thought it might be a fun way of keeping us connected with our friends and loved ones as we travel to Cape Town, Namibia and through Europe in the coming months.

Take a look at pandazebra.com or subscribe to our RSS Feed!

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Shayne Laverdière’s New Site

by jon on April 17, 2010

Shaynelaverdiere.comI went rock climbing for the first time a couple weeks back and bumped into an old friend, Shayne Laverdière. I met Shayne for the first time when I was trying to start an online magazine with some friends in Quebec's equivalent of college (CEGEP). At the time, Shayne was at the tipping point in his freelance career as a professional photographer. He was a huge help to me and my friends when we needed professional looking photographs for the shows we were covering and so I offered to build him a website in exchange.

Unfortunately,  that never happened due to time and life. As I was learning not to look down and holding on for dear life after climbing too high, I remembered the promise I had made to Shayne. Fast forward a couple weeks and Shayne was kind enough to let me pay back an old debt over some soup and coffee.

His work speaks for itself and I don't think any design can really do it justice. If you have a moment, I suggest sitting back and enjoying shaynelaverdiere.com.

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Intuit QuickBase Blog re-design

February 22, 2010

The folks at Intuit’s QuickBase marketing team have recently updated their WordPress blog template. It was a fun little project that involved a bit of re-skinning. Check out the QuickBase Blog’s new look and feel! Many thanks to Ezra for helping take comps and turn them into beautiful XHTML and CSS.

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Interview on the Coding Pad

February 9, 2010

Mary at the Coding Pad contacted me about doing a little interview about myself and my work as a PHP developer. If you’re subscribed to my blog or remotely interested in what makes me tick, I invite you to check it out. The Coding Pad is a great blog that’s featured other developers as well [...]

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Happy 2010!

January 11, 2010

Just a quick note to say I’m still alive. I’ve moved in to a new place with my lovely wife and we’re slowly settling into a routine. I’ll be posting photos, videos and more code in the coming weeks. Lots of projects in the works that will be nearing completion soon!

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Speaking at Intuit about Google Wave, QuickBase and Zend

November 16, 2009

Over the last 5 months, I’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the bright minds at Intuit (the makers of QuickBase and Quicken). Intuit decided to use the Zend Framework for their QuickBase marketing site and approached me to help them with the integration. With their recent acquisition of Mint, I have no [...]

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