There’s always that one guy in the crowd, the heckler. He goes to game after game loaded with a copy of the opposing team’s roster annotated with all kinds of clever mockery and word plays on visiting player’s names. I had a friend in college who had a voice that could pierce the entire crowd. In fact, at one Michigan State basketball game he got the referee’s attention and received a hand motion for what was perceived as a warning. No longer does my friend need to be such a die hard attendee at real life sporting events to pursue his dream as a heckler. Nope, Sony is going to bring the action home in next spring’s installation of MLB: The Show. Read the rest of this entry »
December 23, 2008
December 22, 2008
I love Amazon.com. I give them so much money because they do so many things right. But today I ran into an odd interaction on their site against the convention of linking to a user’s name. Read the rest of this entry »
at 4:08 pm
Ask and you shall receive. At PushButton Labs, we have heard the cries of those of you building and running websites and online communities. You wanted a way to connect your forums to WordPress. You wanted a way to customize and build your site completely with widgets. You wanted a way to present your content using a workflow that makes sense. You wanted all of this for free. Well, I’m excited to introduce to you OnePress Community, the WordPress theme framework that accomplishes all this and much more. Read the rest of this entry »
December 4, 2008
With the chaos of the Thanksgiving holiday, it was a little hard last week to keep in the blogging frame of mind. With a little bit of a turkey hangover, I am guilty of not recovering until now. What was I doing instead of blogging? Well, I chose to engage in a number of other activities… Here’s some random things I did over Thanksgiving. Read the rest of this entry »
November 19, 2008
Today I switched the comments over on this blog from the WordPress 2.7 threaded comments to the comment system, IntenseDebate. If you haven’t heard of IntenseDebate, they were acquired a couple of months ago by Automattic (the company that owns WordPress.) I have been hesistant to switch my commenting over to a third party provider, such as Disqus, because I do not want to give up the “Google juice” from those comments living in my site. IntenseDebate has circumvented that issue and I have full confidence that this is now the way to go for WordPress commenting.
November 18, 2008
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In the web world, it is common knowledge that using the .png image format can cause grief with concern to compatibility across different browsers. With the release of Internet Explorer 7, issues with transparency were resolved; however, a new issue exists that I encountered today and felt would be appropriate to address—.png gamma correction. Read the rest of this entry »
Speaking of whack-a-mole, I ran across this awesome series of images on Flickr from a fellow Spartan showing Sparty playing a little himself. Not to ruin the surprise, but the mole that Sparty is going after is actually the mascot from University of Minnesota (who are the Golden Gophers.) Read the rest of this entry »
Now I can’t claim to have programmed for a lot of different platforms in my life. Aside from learning to program BASIC on a TI-85 and doing a couple years of C++ in college, the majority of my programming career has been spent building websites and working with technologies closely related to the web. I feel that as a programmer, nothing keeps you more honest with yourself and the code you are producing than having a rigorous system of checks and balances that your product must pass.
With a lot of languages, the checks and balances I speak of might be something as straightforward as a compiler. If your code doesn’t compile, you obviously have some issues to which you need to tend. If your role as a developer is in a more institutional setting your code may be subject to a gauntlet of hungry QA engineers, waiting to slap bug slips on your forehead as if you were some sort of heathenish criminal for submitting anything other than flawless code to their domain. While these are both tried and true extremes of probing your semi-colon drenched labors for faulty wiring, as a web developer, I feel we deal with a much more villainous system—multiple web browsers.
November 13, 2008
I use the website Yelp.com pretty frequently, thus I‘ve been looking to get more active in writing reviews on the site. This past weekend I went to Hole In The Wall Barbeque here in Eugene with Chuck. We were both pretty satisfied with what they had to offer. Read the rest of this entry »
I find it mildly humorous that Dell is still shipping all of the PCs on their home store with Vista that other Windows operating system installed. In fact, they want you to use Vista the lame OS so much that they only offer XP Professional at an add-on of $99.
Irontically, I feel that they should be paying me for keeping one more computer off the streets with Vista that filthy, other OS installed.
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Wow, jQuery 1.4.2 is lightning fast http://bit.ly/dlKrHq [#]
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People complain about Starbucks but at least they don't guilt trip you about paying for $3 worth of coffee with your Visa. [#]
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Guilty Gear soundtrack blasting through headphones for maximum programming efficiency. [#]
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Tiger Woods online has no problem incentivizing you to invite your friends to play. http://bit.ly/btFowh [#]
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Got in one of those epic SVN battles where it wouldn't be happy no matter how many ways I ran "clean" Finally migrated project to Git. [#]
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Plants vs Zombies has been released for iPhone, and for only $2.99! http://bit.ly/bHjcRq [#]
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Gonna get my hands dirty with SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) http://bit.ly/bFGidR (thanks @wtc) [#]
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It's slightly annoying how if I have one back and forth reply with somebody on Gmail they end up in my GTalk contacts... [#]
