silverorange Blog
The collective thoughts of web design and development firm silverorange
- Our own little corner of HTMHell
Steven Garrity Each December, Web developers around the world gather around the devilishly-named HTMHell Advent Calendar to uncover 24 great articles,…
- silverorange at 25Steven Garrity
How it started vs. how it’s going: A group photo of silverorange from 2002, three years after our founding (LEFT) and a group photo…
- My Favourite CSS Day Talk
Maureen Holland I booked some professional development time this year to virtually attend CSS Day 2024. This is a 2-day single-track conference focused on…
- Global Accessibility Awareness DayMaureen Holland
Last Thursday, we celebrated Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and…
- Hobby Sites and Modern CSSMaureen Holland
The joy of a hobby site is that the stakes are so low you could roll over them. You are your own client; therefore the chain of…
- The Clarefication: A new CEO at silverorange
Kelly Burke The title of CEO means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Eight years ago when silverorange’s first CEO Dan James…
- Accessible SVG HeadingsMaureen Holland
We recently had a chance to investigate an issue around heading elements missing accessible names. This is particularly problematic for…
- The Canadian Goverment recommends: correct horse battery stapleSteven Garrity
One of our developers was researching best recommendations on password requirements for a new project. The discussion naturally led us back…
- CSS Interop is Awesome!Maureen Holland
When website developers debug a styling issue, we often ask ourselves (several times, in a tone of increasingly frustrated disbelief): Why…
- Efficiency over performanceSteven Garrity
Like anyone aiming to build great Web systems, we’re concerned with the performance of the systems we build. We want to craft…
- Help git help youMaureen Holland
My early commits with the git version control system were monstrous, haphazard things. Hours of work bundled into a vague message, never…
- Learning is ProductiveMaureen Holland
When I started my first enterprise coding job I was obsessed with my productivity — specifically, productivity as measured by tasks…
- Roughing Things In - Commit small and merge fast as a team
Malena Andrade Here at silverorange our team has been growing faster than ever. Getting things done for a deadline can sometimes require letting go of…
- Pride 2021 - What Does it Mean to Embrace Queer Culture?
Nick Burka The outpouring of corporate Pride Month good vibes and high fives is in full swing. Instead of just extolling our virtue as a queer…
- Blogging about your blog is the bloggiest blog you can blogSteven Garrity
It turns out we’re not immune to the common web development trope of blogging about rebuilding your blog. After hosting the silverorange…
- 2020 Remote Remote WeekMalena Andrade
Our yearly in-person workweek now fully remote during the pandemic. Every August for the last five years, we’ve flown the remote folks…
- Backing up oVirt VMs with Ansible
Jayme Fall Here at silverorange, we rely on a mix of our own hosting infrastructure and a variety of cloud-based services. In our on-premise…
- 20 years of silverorangeSteven Garrity
2019 marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of silverorange. We’ve gathered the following selection of blog posts helps mark this…
- Be kind.
Kristen Ford We could follow the instruction as kids, so why aren’t more companies doing it? Being kind isn’t new advice. In fact, we all learned the…
- 2019 silverorange retreatSteven Garrity
We’ve just returned from our annual silverorange company retreat. For a bit of background, see our posts on Why we retreat, How we retreat,…
- Serious Hugs
Jacky Gilbertson At silverorange we encourage our team to share the real aspects of their life—but only what they’re comfortable sharing, of course!—to…
- #ClimateStrike protestsNick Burka
Today silverorange slices in British Columbia, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island have been participating in climate protests.…
- Leaking presenceNick Burka
Our creative director Steven has written a post on his personal blog about the ways in which your online participation in shared documents,…
- The 20th anniversary silverorange art projectSteven Garrity
The 12 works of the 20th anniversary of silverorange art project We asked some of our friends and members of our team to create…
- 20 Years of silverorange party!Nick Burka
To celebrate the twentieth birthday of silverorange we invited all of the people connected to the company over those two decades to join us…
- silverorange & Pride
Isa Grant A twenty-years late celebration of our company queerness A rainbow of rainbows: the current known pride flags of the…
- My Mother’s MentorshipNick Burka
A Mother’s Day tribute to my mom, Martha Burka I’m writing this as part of silverorange’s “20 years of silverorange” series because…
- Connecting FamiliesNick Burka
At silverorange, we recently helped launch the Government of Canada’s Connecting Families initiative—a program helping eligible low-income…
- silverorange at 20: How silverorange was almost called Net ProphetSteven Garrity
Part of our 20 years of silverorange On August 11, 2019, silverorange will turn 20 years old. We were formed in 1999 when two small…
- The Web is ready for your fingerprint, almost…Nick Burka
About a month ago, the W3C unveiled the Web Authentication API (WebAuthn), which is a way to sign into websites using a fingerprint or other…
- How to receive feedback more betterSteven Garrity
An informal presentation on how to get better at receiving and acknowledging feedback. What follows began as a brief presentation I made…
- Being CharitableNick Burka
Kiva Loans and Monthly Donations at silverorange The first installment of our “20 years of silverorange” series. At silverorange we try to…
- Design with Difficult Data at A List ApartSteven Garrity
Published once every 17 years! The four horsemen of the custom avatar: Near, Far, Missing, & Super-wide-logo I’ve…
- Office EmojificationSteven Garrity
Semiotic Instability and the Birth of Emojis as a Tribal Language A few interesting patterns have emerged in our use of Slack at…
- Usability for Promotion Codes and Access CodesNick Burka
How many codes do you deal with every week? Between promotion codes, access codes, student IDs, and two-factor authentication codes,…
- Learning how to celebrate with 🏆sNick Burka
Using Slack’s Reacji Channeler to keep us positive. Our web agency silverorange does amazing work, but historically, we haven’t been great…
- silverorange retreat 2018Nick Burka
We held our annual winter retreat near Wolfville, Nova Scotia this year in a beautiful and tranquil old farmhouse complete with cats,…
- An architectural sketch is returned to its rightful homeSteven Garrity
A gift 100 years in the making Photos by Stephen DesRoches We bought the beautiful century-old Victorian G.A.W. Robertson…
- Mug for the cameraKristen Ford
What fuels a team? Inspiration? Grit? Can do attitudes? Just like the editorial team at Ars Technica, we gotta admit it’s coffee. While…
- silverorange avatarsNick Burka
Pablo Stanley recently released an amazing Sketch avatar library called avataaars. I took it for a spin tonight and tried creating the…
- A company on the verge of adulthoodSteven Garrity
Reflecting on the ways we’ve matured as silverorange enters its 19th year. silverorange in 2002: shorts on the left, pants on…
- A brief (18-year) history of silverorange.comSteven Garrity
A look back at how our silverorange.com website has changed since 1999. silverorange.com from 1999—2017 At the 18th anniversary of…
- Ownership, Control, Access, & PossessionSteven Garrity
The First Nations principles of OCAP® are de facto standard for how to conduct research with First Nations. As web designers and developers,…
- silverorange is hiringSteven Garrity
silverorange is a small design and development agency based in Canada. We’re hiring for two positions: Web Developer (Node/React) Accepting…
- silverorange is looking to hire a back-end web developer (Update: position filled)Steven Garrity
UPDATE: THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED Future job openings will be posted here on our blog and via @silverorangeinc on…
- silverorange is looking to hire a project manager (update: applications closed)Steven Garrity
silverorange is looking to hire a project manager (update: applications closed) UPDATE: THIS APPLICATIONS FOR THIS POSITION ARE…
- silverorange retreat 2017 from the airNick Burka
Stephen DesRoches brought his drone to our retreat this year and took some wonderful airborne footage.
- Neon: Quickly review stuff and share with your friendsSteven Garrity
We at silverorange have been working on new product we call Neon. Update: The neon.io domain has a new owner. We had fun building Neon…
- Running a design sprint in a healthcare organizationSteven Garrity
Read about some of the lessons we learned running design sprints and working with clients in the world of healthcare: Sprint Stories:…
- silverorange is looking to hire another excellent back-end web developer (Update: position filled)Steven Garrity
UPDATE: THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED Future job openings will be posted here on our blog and via @silverorangeinc on…
- How the credit card industry is helping the adoption of modern web standardsSteven Garrity
This Visa appears to be using the CSS ‘perspective’ property, and maybe a filter:blur(); — photo is CC BY 4.0 The…
- How we retreatSteven Garrity
See the first part in this two-part series, Why we retreat silverorange held our 14th annual company retreat this year, spending four days…
- silverorange office wins 2016 Heritage AwardNick Burka
In 2003, silverorange moved our offices to a beautiful heritage building in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island called the G.A.W. Robertson…
- Why we retreatSteven Garrity
This is the first in a two-part series about our silverorange company retreats. It focuses on why we have a retreat, while the second part…