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  1. Justin Jumps In

    As you read this post, take a look at our “Who We Are” page and you’ll notice something: It’s got more people on it.

    We’ve just added a full-time developer, Justin Crawford, to our studios. Justin was working for the University of Colorado in Boulder, managing large technology integration…

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  2. Think Food: What To Do With Old Printer Cartridges

    image Yesterday afternoon Travis asked me if I knew of a place where we could take our used printer cartridges for recycling. At the time I couldn’t think of anywhere, so I put my handy dandy google search skillz to work, and came across an interesting program called thINK FOOD.

    The mission of…

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  3. The Duck Rocks

    On a late work night here at Hop Studios, Susie became defective and started listening to Poison’s Every Rose Has Its Thorn over and over and over. This escalated into a devious and destructive music duel between Susie, Travis and myself. We were taking turns, looking for the ultimate…

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  4. The Problem of Logos

    It doesn’t happen with every project, but it’s not exactly uncommon either: a client comes to us with an idea, but no logo or identity work done, and asks for a website. Of course, they also want a logo as part of that design work, but as they are focused on the website they often aren’t…

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  5. Is CodeIgniter Actually Open Source?

    Hop Studios uses code written by EllisLab every day, and we’re watching each day for the drop of ExpressionEngine 2.0, which will be based on the CodeIgniter PHP framework.  While we wait, I was musing about how EE is often admonished for not being open source, while CodeIgniter’s status as…

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