Per Design

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Per Design

  • Just finished: Cold Comfort Farm

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    Oh my! This was an excellent and deliciously satirical read. Why this poor book (and its author, Stella Gibbons) is not more widely known beggars belief. Cold Comfort Farm is a masterpiece of skewering the horrible cliches of English literature based in the “country-pastoral” genre (think Thomas Hardy’s The Trumpet Major). And the ending is,…

  • Yes it’s a “new” look…

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    Per Design got a bit of a refresh recently. The theme is bog-standard Twentytwelve…but with some customizations thanks to child-theme support and the amazing plugin ecosystem WordPress supports. I swear there’s nothing WordPress – with the right theme and the right plugins – can’t do. No wait…it can’t be as difficult to style as SharePoint!

  • Creative Cloud: thoughts on why I can’t go there (yet).

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    By now everyone has seen the news that Adobe is phasing out stand-alone, perpetually licensed software. And they have valid reasons for this change, particularly in regards to services that they can now focus on providing to creative professionals. It also has the added benefit of flattening out income and revenue, making for a more…