May 13, 2008
I have known that there's a javascript/css fix for transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer, but I've tried to stay away from this always! As of today, I was faced with answering this problem on a site I'm working on. I found it's quite simple and…
May 10, 2008
I'm sure a lot of people in the Flash community have already heard. For the few of you who haven't, this is huge! When considering what this will do for mobile devices and even the possibilities on gaming systems like the Wii and PS3, it's very…
May 08, 2008
Straight from the creators of google maps "street view", there's is now interactive video that you can scroll and navigate around in while the video plays. I think it shows how impressive flash player really is. Flash is pulling in an FLV file with…
April 08, 2008
So I know there may be some iTunes hatters out there, but I just discovered a useful thing with iTunes. I've used iTunes for many years now, but never noticed this feature. Maybe this is a new feature? You can actually print out different templates…
April 04, 2008
After seeing the ProCable headphones for the iPhone on TUAW.com, I decided to buy a pair for the low price of $24.95. I wasn't expecting much, but I was hoping for the best. I also used the promo code to purchase them, which brought them down in…
March 18, 2008
I finally bought the hard drive I've been waiting for over the past 2 months. I'm really excited I finally have the drive and can faithfully know my data is being written across two hot swappable drives. The drive runs several different RAID modes…
February 10, 2008
The flex tour came to Milwaukee yesterday. It was a pretty amazing demonstration about all the great new features in being released in Adobe Flex 3. I was pretty amazed with all the new features Kevin Hoyt presented at the meeting. I give a big thank…
February 03, 2008
I finally decided to drop sprint after 5 long years. After my contract expired in october I've had nothing but problems with sprint. In August they messed up my plan on my treo 700p and began charging me around 60 dollars a month. After numerous 4…
January 10, 2008
Today, a coworker pointed out to me a feature he discovered in Apple Safari after doing a search for a random error code while writing an Ajax script for Chefmd.com. This is a very useful feature of safari that I'm surprised they don't allow you to…
January 09, 2008
So I had yet until today found a free plug-in for creating .ico (windows) icon files out of photoshop. After doing some brief searching on Google I found a free photoshop plug-in that works with CS3 created by Toby Thain at Telegraphics. Thank you…
December 26, 2007
I know this is no new news for most, but I just realized today Gmail now supports IMAP! I stopped using the POP3 capabilities a while ago because I hated it not syncing, but now IMAP is supported. YAY! I guess this occurred back in October. Where…
December 19, 2007
I have made several recent entries about code development for the web. I recently stumbled upon a new studio for programming on the web. It's called "Aptana Studio". I have yet to use it extensively, but I'm looking forward to using the tool. It…
December 11, 2007
Adobe has me excited about a couple things this past week. First the announcement of HD Video in flash player! Adobe released flash player 9 update 3 and it now supports HD quality video: Press Release. The other thing that has me excited is my…
December 06, 2007
I know dreamweaver isn't the best choice for editing PHP code by hand, but it's worked relatively well for me over the past 2 years. There are better tools out there that offer code/syntax validation such as the Eclipse IDE with php, and even simple…
November 19, 2007
I'm not really sure what new incite it will bring to me in the field of object-oriented programming or actionscript 3.0, but the Adobe AS3 tour is coming to Chicago. adobeas3tour.com. I'm excited to see what "the man" himself has to offer in a…
October 31, 2007
The Hush Sound website became live last week. There are still revisions, but it's a good start. thehushsound.com
September 19, 2007
I recently launched a fully flash band site: Charlotte Sometimes. There more to be done and not a whole lot of animation, but it's a good first launch of a CMS driven site in flash with Marky.
September 19, 2007
I'm looking forward to wrapping up the new "2.0" version of the content management system I've been working on with Marky at Midwest Love. It should be a good release of it. I think our clients are going to really enjoy it. On top of finishing that…
September 10, 2007
Yesterday Lea and I ran almost 7 miles. We ran from our apartment to Bradford beach. We also saw some of the cutest dogs on the beach. It made the fact that our apartment doesn't allow dogs worse! In conclusion, drink lots of fluids and get new…
September 10, 2007
Thanks to Coconut Skim Lattes and the early mornings spent at Alterra Foundry, I've been able to actually start reading the genius of Moock's new book. I hope to be able to finish it this year. Amongst all of my work at Marx, the freelance, and life…