GIRAFFE

Adam in the new Semi-Permanent

Bryan Fitch — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:00:00 -0400

Our own Adam Groves landed page one in the new Semi-Permanent. Big ups to him! We will have to celebrate this weekend. If you haven’t picked up the new book for 2009, you can get it here for $40. Our good friend Jason Fiske is also featured in the new book. In other news, we’re rocking away on some exciting projects that will be launching soon enough. Jay and myself will be in attendance at An Event Apart Boston a few weeks from now. If you’d like to meet up with us for some...

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Looking for content creators

Bryan Fitch — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:00:00 -0400

We’re a small team here at GIRAFFE. Hell, two-thirds of the team aren’t even full-time yet we still manage to keep getting busier. One piece of the pie that we’re missing however, is a good writer. Thankfully, most of the clients we work with are BYOC, though we are finding more and more our projects are being held up due to waiting on content. Well today we’ve decided to nip this in the bud by starting the process of finding a few writers whom we can call upon to help...

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I'm not talkin' bout it, I'm living it

Bryan Fitch — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

What up. It’s been crazy around here lately. For one, this Kentucky boy went full on GIRAFFE April 1st. A combination of joy and fear had me drunk dialin’ my friends, and listening to Tom Waits on repeat for a bit; but I couldn’t be happier with our progress and projects. Some current projects are coming to a close and we’re excited to begin work on a few new ideas we’ve been speaking about the past couple of weeks. In the last month or so we’ve launched a great campaign for the Freelancer’s...

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How to create a .local domain for local web development

Jay Contonio — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

When Bonjour (formally Rendezvous) first made it into Mac OS X it introduced a URL scheme I’d never seen before. Accessing a server on your network (one with Bonjour of course) was now a simple matter of machinename.local. This made it great for testing simple static websites, but was sort of ugly in that you usually were typing something like http://machinename.local/~Sites/somename/. Well here’s a trick I found while digging through the Passenger PrefPane package (which you Rails...

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Grande ouverture

Jay Contonio — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Come party with us and our friend Jon Williams at the Sprinkler Factory Saturday night. It’s Jon’s first show and we’re very excited. Jon is a rare talent so be sure not to miss out on the evening. GIRAFFE created Jon’s website about a year back so we’re stoked on seeing his new work. Here are the details

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What I missed at SXSW

Jay Contonio — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400

I didn’t go to SXSW this year. As a matter of fact, I’ve never been. I hope 2010 will be the year of the conference (for me) since last month was when I popped my conference cherry (yikes). Now I’ve got the itch. Because I like to torture myself by reading about places I can’t go, I went over the panel list and noticed what was sure to be a gem by Jeffrey Zeldman, titled “Freelance to Agency”. I was bummed about missing out on that. Luckily he just posted it...

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GIRAFFE Re-launch

Jay Contonio — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Well we’ve gone and gave the website a well-deserved makeover – and at the same time, gave Giraffe itself a makeover. What was once just a list of random projects will now (we hope) be a place where designers and developers alike can sit back and enjoy some light reading (while promoting ourselves of course). Right now, Giraffe is a collaboration of three individuals who want to share their work and their opinions. There are some baby giraffes out there who wish to remain nameless,...

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Do You Love Bourbon?

Bryan Fitch — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:00:00 -0400

Every time I drive back to Arizona, I can’t wait to stop in Blythe, CA to hit up some Carl’s Jr. (yes, I make sweet, sweet love to the Western BBQ Burger). One could say I am quite the fan of Carl’s Jr. and one making such an accusation would be correct. But now they are just being filthy, trying to sex up this Kentucky boy with its new Kentucky Bourbon Burger. They cut the foreplay and went straight to my heart. Kentucky + Bourbon + Burger = Elysium. Thank you kind sir. I...

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