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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 studio.

Think Food: What To Do With Old Printer Cartridges

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.

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The Duck Rocks

On a late night working here at Hop Studios, Susie became defective and started listening to Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” over and over and over.

The Problem of Logos

At Le Petit Business (a local networking group for small and micro-businesses which Hop Studios is a part of) we talked yet again about the difficult of identity, branding and logo issues.

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 such is seemingly overlooked.