Alex Chousmith Senior Web Developer

Since it is 2011 now, Alex can say he's been in SD for 10 years, and building with Ninthlink for the past 5. A background of Mathematics – Computer Science / Interdisciplinary Computing & Arts from UCSD, plus HTML / CSS / jQuery / PHP / WordPress / Drupal / CakePHP / bass skills, powers him to get the job done, no matter what it is.
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Things You Can’t Do In IE8

It is February of the year two thousand and twelve, and while overall web stats claim that older Internet Explorer versions account for only ~ 15% of web traffic, the reality for your business could be quite different. What if you are looking to update your (company’s) website for the new year, but find that the majority of your visitors have not updated their web browsers in the past year (IE9 was released on 3/14/11)? While it may be true that with enough diligence, you can get IE6 – IE8 to do just about everything that modern browsers can do, there are a few things, specifically when working in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), that can really throw a wrench in the works. Here are some CSS pitfalls to be sure and avoid: READ MORE

Alex Chousmith
Posted by Alex Chousmith on February 3, 2012
Categories: Tips, Develop
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A Threadless Tee For Your Xbox Avatar?!

Yes, you read the headline correctly. And I was surprised when I read the tweet, but there it was : Threadless Tees in the Xbox Avatar Marketplace. I have a PS3, also known as the black box that only runs Madden, and I’ve never regretted siding with Sony over Microsoft… until now? READ MORE

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Posted by Alex Chousmith on January 24, 2012
Categories: Culture, Design, Market
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Protect IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet

The video is linked from the blacked out page that is WordPress.org, from Vimeo user “Fight for the Future”.

Alex Chousmith
Posted by Alex Chousmith on January 18, 2012
Categories: Design, Develop
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The Internet Goes Dark Against SOPA

You may have noticed it when you started up Firefox today. Or maybe you tried to find something on Wikipedia. In either case, you were probably greeted by a much darker page than you were used to. I would link this to the Wikipedia article all about SOPA, but, well, that wouldn’t work out very well. Check out sopastrike.com/strike/ for more of a run down of whats going on. READ MORE

Alex Chousmith
Posted by Alex Chousmith on January 18, 2012
Categories: Culture, Design, Develop
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Holiday Search Tip Rap, from Google + Santa

Check out Santa’s holiday search tip rap, fresh off the little snowflake in the bottom right of Google’s helpful “New Gadgets” page. Did you get a new gadget – Android phone, tablet, or computer – over the holidays? Then this is for you: Download Google Chrome, get the Google+ app to face time, er, face-to-face with up to 9 people, hit up the Android App Store, and more. Happy Holidays!

Alex Chousmith
Posted by Alex Chousmith on December 27, 2011
Categories: Tips, Market
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50 Best Album Covers of 2011

It’s that time of year again – that magical time of year – when all the “Best of…” lists are circulating as free as the eggnog and tree-shaped cookies. There are lots of “Best of” Music lists out there – Reddit has a nice collection of albums as voted by Reddit votes – but I particularly like Paste Magazine’s 50 Best Album Covers of 2011 list, featuring The Cool Kids, Tom Waits, the Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, Rome, and much much more. What’s your favorite?

Alex Chousmith
Posted by Alex Chousmith on December 13, 2011
Categories: Culture, Design
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Its that time of the year again – Elf Yourself

Boy, having pre-cropped headshots of all the Ninthlink team members sure makes it easy to turn people in to elves, whether they want to or not. READ MORE

Alex Chousmith
Posted by Alex Chousmith on December 6, 2011
Categories: Culture, Tips, Market
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I Am Not A Hipster

Big ups to Rosey at sd:dialedin for pointing out what looks to be a rad film coming up at Sundance 2012 : I Am Not A Hipster. Directed by local San Diegan Destin Cretton, a couple of scenes were even shot at the Casbah, just down the hill from here. The soundtrack was courtesy of the most-excellent Joel P West, and I think you can check it out on its own at http://songs.caninesmusic.com/album/canines . I know I’ll be lookin forward to it.

Alex Chousmith
Posted by Alex Chousmith on December 6, 2011
Categories: Culture
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The Evolution of Search in Six Minutes

Our goal is actually to make improvements to search, that just answer the user’s information need, get them to their answer faster & faster; so that there’s almost a seemless connection between their thoughts & their information needs, and the search results that they find.

Props of course to Mashable for the thorough writeup. Happy #cybermonday , yall

Alex Chousmith
Posted by Alex Chousmith on November 28, 2011
Categories: Develop
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For All the Veterans Out There

… from our US Dept of Veterans Affairs, via their official YouTube channel. In honor of those that have served us in the past and are serving us now, we take a moment to remember them, in particular at 11:11 on 11/11/11. And of course, there is the Google Doodle for today as well. Nothing animated as has happened with past doodles, but classy nonetheless. READ MORE

Alex Chousmith
Posted by Alex Chousmith on November 11, 2011
Categories: Culture
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