I’m a Creative Self-Knowing Romantic [says 43things.com]
Mar 25, 2009 Productivity, Reviews, Web Development
I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I’m a
Creative Self-Knowing Romantic
I have been using 43Things.com for a little bit now. Not sure how social it is for me yet, but I enjoy having a public place to put my goals and progress. The site design isn’t perfect, but it is an all around solid site.
My favorite part is that it can publish goal entries to my wordpress blog when I publish them.
Preview Local Image Before Uploading
Feb 20, 2009 Adobe, Code Ninja, Tutorials, Web Development
This is one thing I had not seen about the new Flash Player 10. I’ll be trying this out later today.
Check it out at flexexamples.com.
Tags: Adobe Flex
Web Designer Wall Top 50
Dec 5, 2008 Creative, Web Development
I love Web Designer Wall; it is a great place to see some good site design.
Today they released the Best of CSS Design 2008. It contains some amazing sites. I spent a good bit going through them and bookmarking a lot for future reference.
Interestingly enough they also picked a site that was recently released by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church). The site is specifically designed to focus on the life and ministry of the Savior, Jesus Christ. Being LDS myself I did a bit of a double take when I saw it. Something like worlds colliding, but congratulations to whoever designed it. Looks good.
Tags: Web Design
Flash Player 10
Oct 15, 2008 Adobe, Web Development
It is here. Let’s get it rolled out at as quick as possible. I harness some of its awesomeness, but it is much easier to convince the bosses if the software penetration is good.
Download the regular version here.
For the debug you can find it in the Flash Player 10 update for OS X and Windows here.
Tags: Adobe, Flash Player
Dear Chrome, Please Kill IE – Love, Firefox
Oct 10, 2008 Announcements, Web Development
So, I’m a bit late to be blogging about Google Chrome. Don’t expect to find anything news worthy in this post if you have heard of Google Chrome before; I’m just doing my civic duty.
I had a bit of a Fanboy inner struggle when I heard about Google Chrome. I love Google and I love Firefox. There’s no need to worry quite yet because I also love Apple, so my worlds have not yet collided. Until then I have decided to go with it: I love Chrome!
I love it not only because competition is good for software, but because I hate Internet Explorer so much. The more I have to develop for IE the more I want it to just go away. Especially IE6. How has Microsoft not killed that off yet. Apparently its even dangerous. Not that it is the definitive test, but try out the Acid 3 test with even IE7 sometime and compare it with any other modern browser. It is just wrong.
So the purpose of this post is to reach any person who aimlessly wanders to this site to replace IE with anything. If you don’t need the plugins from Firefox, then go with Google Chrome. Heck grab up some Opera if that is what it takes, just please for the sanity of web developers leave the IE.
In that spirit here is some Fountains of Wayne.
Tags: Browser War, Chrome, IE
Side Scrolling – Done Right
Oct 8, 2008 Web Development
We all know that side scrolling is evil, right? Well you do now. Never ever ever make a side that requires a user to scroll sideways. Except when you do it correctly.
The reason side scrolling is so annoying (if you don’t already know) is that it requires the user to use the bottom scroll bar if they don’t have a mighty mouse or something similar. The default mouse scroll wheel just doesn’t travel left to right. Thankfully most side scrollers have been weeded out by natural selection, but lately I have seen a few portfolio type websites start to allow the side scrolling back like an illness that returns because you didn’t take all of your antibiotics like you were told.
However I have found one great example of how to do the side scrolling correctly. Thanks to some nifty coding (check the source, I won’t ruin it for you), the Eric Ryan Anderson Photography (ericryananderson.com) website let’s you scroll left to right using the vertical scroll wheel. To top it off there is also a nice return to the beginning function with a smooth animation. All in all a good site and great example of the exception to the rule.
Tags: Web Design
Diagram: Your MVC Cake
Oct 6, 2008 Web Development
I found this image awhile ago and you might have seen it before, but it is good to know/remember.
The image refers mostly to CakePHP, but it is true for MVC frameworks. Keep the Model fat and happy and you Controll lean and mean, and everything works better.
Cubescape
Sep 18, 2008 Design, Web Development
I usually stay away from online drawing applications. I’d rather play with Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.
Cubescape grabbed my attention though. It was a quick way to draw fun, isometric, almost-pixel art. Then you can even animate the drawing of it. Here is an example of what I did just messing around with it.
Amazingly it was made completely with jQuery. Who’d a thought?
Tags: Cubescape, Design, Javascript, jQuery
