Daniel Koskinen

Web designer, WordPress consultant and usability enthusiast

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Trip to London

Posted on May 12, 2013

london9

We just got back from a short trip to London with my parents-in-law. Greeted by wind, showers and the occasional sunshine, we had a good time simply visiting museums, shopping and eating.

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Sublpress: Manage WordPress Sites in Your Text Editor

Posted on April 9, 2013

A screenshot of Sublpress

Sublpress is a new extension for Sublime Text by Nic Dienstbier that makes it possible to manage your WordPress site (or multiple sites) in the editor. Currently you can edit settings, create and edit posts and manage taxonomy terms. All features can be easily accessed via the Command Palette. I tested Sublpress in both Sublime…

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My Dev Setup, part 4: Version Control and Deployments with WordPress

Posted on April 2, 2013

webdev-workflow

This post sheds some light on my development and deployment workflow for WordPress client projects.

Posted in Work and Tagged git setup version control wordpress | 6 Comments

Easter Photos 2013

Posted on April 1, 2013

View of Tammerkoski rapids

A series of photos I took this Easter near the centre of Tampere. Spring is about two weeks late this year, I’m hoping the snow melts soon!

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Staying Connected, Working from Home

Posted on March 27, 2013

helsinki2

Working from home is great, especially when starting each day would otherwise mean a two-hour train journey to Helsinki. On the downside I sometimes feel disconnected from my colleagues, since I only see them in person about once or twice a month. Of course we have video conferences when there’s a matter we need to…

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Debugging SASS in Chrome

Posted on March 26, 2013

chrome-sass

In Firefox, viewing the original SASS line number directly has been possible using Firebug and FireSass. Similar, or even better functionality has very recently arrived in the stable release of Chrome. I just tried this out and it works wonderfully. See here for instructions: How to make Chrome understand the SASS/SCSS in your rails app…

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Simple Conditional Loading in WordPress

Posted on March 25, 2013

wpclipped

Over a year ago, Jeremy Keith wrote an excellent post on enhancing the performance of responsive sites by checking for a minimum screen width before loading secondary content such as related news and latest tweets. Mobile devices would just show a link to the content, thus keeping it accessible. In this post I’ll show how…

Posted in Web and Tagged ajax javascript responsive design wordpress | 4 Comments

The Mobile Book by Smashing Magazine

Posted on March 22, 2013

The Mobile Book

A fully packed 334 pages of analysis on the current state of mobile and best responsive design practices. Bottom line: most people working in web design today should probably read this book, whether they’re designers or developers. See the full post for my six key points.

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Winter Photos 2013

Posted on March 20, 2013

A sunny day in March
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Switching to Android after 4.5 years of iOS

Posted on March 16, 2013

iPhone 4 with Nexus 4

After over four years of using an iPhone daily (first a 3G and then an iPhone 4), for the past month I’ve had the pleasure of using the Google-sanctioned LG Nexus 4 as my work phone. Trying to have a positive angle on things, I put together a short list of things I like about both OS’s.

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