Author: Mike

  • Find Out About Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes

    Today, Health Quality Ontario’s Long-Term Care Public Reporting Website was refreshed with home-level data for all 630+ long-term care homes in Ontario. This is a first for the province – in fact, HQO now hosts the most comprehensive long-term care public reporting website in Canada. Any member of the public who is interested in long-term…

  • Font rendering issues on Google Chrome on OS X

    There seems to be a small problem with many websites viewed in the latest version of Chrome on OS X as of recently (version 22.0.1229.79 on September 27, 2012).

  • Proper MIME types for Embedded @font-face Fonts

    There are a number of font formats that one can set MIME types for, on both Apache and IIS servers. I’ve traditionally had luck with the following settings.

  • Separate WordPress dashboard URLs for multisite domain mapped sites

    I have multisite and domain mapping setup on my WordPress. I’m hosting one of my friends websites on it and want to have the experience as close to a separate install as possible. I have the main site going to http://website1.com/ and when I want to administer that site, I just visit http://website1.com/wp-admin/ However, I…

  • Grun·Built

    I’m working on a new website for Joel Greenwald’s construction company called Grun·Built. In about 20 minutes I’ve put together a very rudimentary splash-page featuring some resizing full-screen imagery to showcase some of his work. Check it out and check back in about a month’s time, we’ll have some more content up for people to…

  • How to Tie a Tie

    How to Tie a Tie

    Working independently as a student in the Graphic Design 03 class at OCAD University, I was tasked to design an information sheet to help people understand the object and its function. I chose a neck tie, and the process of how to tie the neck tie.

  • WordPress injection attack, JavaScript code disables site.

    The other day I found this piece of code in many of my JavaScript files on a WordPress installation I had running. This code disabled my website, but I was more curious how the code was injected to every JavaScript file that I had running for the various plugins and scripts I made for the…