Marcato Hackathon

Marcato Hackathon Overview I just completed the Marcato Hackathon Weekend, which I think should become a regular event because it was in-CREDIBLE...incredible! For those who don't know what a hackathon is: it's a nerdFest. Basically a bunch of smarties come together, pitch ideas, organize into small pods/teams and…

Conditionally Confused Part 1

Tutorials vs. Reality Since I spent a good portion of last week playing with CSS; changing my chat from different shades of blue, and moving the chatbox pixel-by-pixel to the perfect spot (side-note: the perfect spot for my chat was the centre of the page), I felt that this week…

G(host) Story

This is a story about the host provider, DigitalOcean, and how it interacts with Ghost, the publishing platform. We were asked to use DigitalOcean as our host provider. DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting provider, meaning that it uses many servers rather than a single machine. Thus reducing the risk and…