The nogg chicken house is a new and modern piece of sculptural art – yet functional and beautifully well engineered too.

nogg was designed and built by Matthew Hayward and Nadia Turan.

The nogg is made from Cedar wood, a naturally anti-bacterial wood that weathers superbly outdoors and in all weathers giving each nogg a unique and individual appearance after time. The designers, Matthew Hayward and Nadia Turan created the nogg because several friends had ugly unsightly chicken houses which they felt detracted from their gardens and weren’t welcoming, let alone for the chickens who inhabitted them!

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Living and working at Bondi Beach has given me the opportunity to improve my surfing, and in doing so I’ve learnt a thing or two about business..

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As a huge Saab fan, this new TVC made me pretty happy.

We’ve been working on a new site for an iPhone developer, and ran into some performance issues with Safari and Chrome. Looks like Webkit has trouble with text-shadow..

Safari and Chrome have a bit of trouble with text-shadow..

So there I was, merrily developing a new site for a client.

The three product panels were fine, but I wanted to add a little animation to reveal further information, so I turned to my favourite javascript library, jQuery.

Using jQuery to move things around, fade them in and out and generally spice things up is pretty common these days, so I was surprised when I ran into a few performance issues testing the site in Webkit-based browsers Safari and Chrome that I hadn’t heard about. Both were having a big problems with all the motion and fading, with some serious and unacceptable lag. Firefox and IE didn’t share these problems, so I wracked my brains trying to work out what might be the cause.

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A run down of some of our favourite Wordpress plugins, hacks and functionality.

Hench ♥ Wordpress.

At Hench we’re massive fans of Wordpress. In fact, the majority of our client sites are built on the Wordpress platform. Why? Well for one thing Wordpress is free, so the saving is passed directly on to our client.

But we don’t use it just because it’s free.

Wordpress is a brilliant CMS backbone for any small-medium sized website in it’s own right. It has an intuitive user interface, it’s easy to implement, and you can pretty much build anything imaginable thanks to the extensible nature of the platform. On that note, let us introduce you to a few of our favourite Wordpress customisations and plugins.

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