Dojo Docs Project

We are big fans of the Dojo Toolkit, but unfortunately the Dojo book that is linked to from the main Dojo web site is of limited utility. A lot of the information is out of date and there are limited programmatic examples. While the #dojo IRC channel on irc.freenode.net is a wonderful resource [...]

Why We Don’t Skip Photoshop

Nicole wrote a post the other day about our design process. As she mentioned, when we set up Communications Tool & Die we were trying to determine a design process that would work for our company. Although we had worked in large organizations and as freelancers, it wasn’t clear what the best process [...]

The process of creating a website

When creating a website, there are a couple ways to go about it. There are pros and cons to both; it’s really just a matter of figuring out what’s going to work best for the project you’re working on and the resources available to you.

Why Our AJAX Demo is Not Something We’d Release For a Client

Our JavaScript examples page has a demo AJAX quote generator application built using the Dojo Toolkit. It’s the only page on our web site that does not validate, outside of our blog (Wordpress theme validation is another topic for another day). It also does not follow our typical design philosophy. The page [...]

Welcome to Communications Tool & Die!

Welcome to the first post from the Communications Tool & Die blog! This company is the byproduct of several years of idle conversations between myself and several of my friends. We are all experienced professionals with years and years of experience. We all talk about the projects we’re working on but want [...]