Benjamin Borowski

2011 certifiably rocked for Typeoneerror in terms of laying the groundwork for the growth of our small business, so I'm happy to welcome my good friend and game designer Sean Monahan to the Typeoneerror team for 2012. Sean started last week as T1E's first Senior Product Designer. He adds to our capa...

Typeoneerror is growing and I am looking for a select group of creative individuals who will form our core product-development team over the next year and assist with various client projects on a daily basis. I am searching for unique talents with experience in the development and design of interact...

Comcast provides a rather obnoxious service called a Domain Hijacker Helper which acts as a layer on top of their DNS service and redirects you to a branded Comcast search page if a domain you are looking for doesn't exist. Their site indicates that "you can login to Comcast customerCentral and chan...

Original image from dontoine, idea courtesy of @seantron This week was an incredibly rough week for Flash and Flex Developers. Adobe announced that it would cease active development of the Mobile Flash Player, choosing instead to focus on developing tools, solutions, and browser processes targeting...

If you've ever made a WordPress-powered site that deviates from the normal blog structure, you know how fantastic registering your own post types can be. If you want to order that custom data manually though, it's quite tricky. Orderly is a very simple WordPress plug-in that allows you to add a simp...

For any developer—regardless of seniority—estimating the time you think a development task or project will take can be a daunting task. I was reminded of this again recently after I read software engineer @jaimeohm's heavily re-tweeted tweet about what makes "us coders" special: "We are...

Taking a break from iOS development to work on some front-end development on a Wordpress site. Now that Wordpress 3.2 has a pretty badass custom post-type system, it's much easier to create custom admin elements and it makes it a logical CMS choice for many projects. To contribute to making a more c...

Lots of great music from Marky and S.P.Y. (who've been tearing it up lately) on this month's mix. Feeling Inside - Big Bud Without You - Marky, Makoto Mystic Sunset - Marky, SPY Run! - Syncopix Who Can Say? - Tali, Lynx, Drs, Malibu Rhodes Solar 9 - Redeyes Sinistarr Bossa Nouveau - Hybri...

Getting set up to test a Rails app with Rspec is relatively straightforward. One of the troubles is the length of time it takes for the tests to run when issuing either the rspec spec or rake spec commands from the command line. My current tests for example take about ¡16 seconds! to complete....

Wordpress has a very sophisticated image uploader that allows you to insert images directly into your post. It inserts images with an absolute path, including the full path to your image as an absolute link. My guess is this is for SEO and theming purposes, but if you're just building a one-off site...

Working on a fantastic project lately; a PHP platform developed with Smarty template engine that will power three (and more) websites. Each website has a shared library used to bootstrap the app and the site-specific logic is contained in the extensible smarty templates. Each site has a large body...

Subversion merging can be a complex task, one that's decidedly terrifying at times. I'm typically always worried when I perform an svn merge, and so I always consult the red bean manual when I'm about to do one. In the last few weeks I've written a handful of emails explaining how to do it quickly a...

I'm looking for another talented front-end developer for a 1–2 month contract position at the recently opened Typeoneerror Studios. The right candidate will work with me (and the T1E office Shiba Mochi!) on a number of different projects out of the studio in Ballard in Seattle. I'm looking for...

It has been a long time since I've done a dubstep mix so here's a particularly wobbly one for ya. Darkness - Excision, Subvert Alpha Centauri - Noisia Bad Tingz - We Bang, Getter Kick the Bass - Urban Assault South Paw [Revamped] - HD4000 Waterdrops - Requake The End - Hyper The Blank [16b...

Loved that Ross D did a remix of the Bed Intruder song so I had to include it on this latest mix. A lot of good (and feelgood!) tunes on this mix including the awesome team-ups of Robert Owens & Brookes Brothers and 4hero's fantastic collaboration with Nu:Tone and Natalie Williams (tune of the y...

I was very excited to attend the Seattle stop of the An Event Apart tour this year. Last year I was out of town when it happened and was bummed. Thankfully I got my ticket early this year and was able to schedule it in advance. I went expecting to be excited about HTML5, Standards and CSS3...the us...

This will be the first post about my experiences learning Android development. At the moment, I'm working on a small application for the project/code management software Codebase (http://codebasehq.com). The aim of this article is to show how to create custom background colors for ListView interacti...

After the foray into hardstep on volume 23, we're back to beautiful liquid beats this month. The new EP by Override is blowing my mind right now. So good. Enjoy the mix and make sure to follow us on Twitter if you want more music. Override - Bring It Back Vision feat. MC Kyla [Agent Alvin Remix]...

You've heard it before—the haters, the purists—you most likely either think Fireworks is the "free app that Adobe throws in when you buy 3 or more apps" or you're a Fireworks purist (read: snob) and feel the need to tell everyone how "Photoshop is for Photo Manipulation only." Let's be r...