News

Facelift Image Replacement

9pm - August 20 2008 ·

Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers. Any element with text can be replaced: from headers elements and everything in between! This tutorial will get you going.. http://nettuts.com/javascript-ajax/how-to-use-any-font-you-wish-with-flir/ ...from-> http://www.mawhorter.net/ Somehow i got there surfing after reading this... [read on]

Art

Man from Plains

3pm - June 6 2008 ·

All this talk of politics has affected my netflix lineup. Last night we watched the documentary "Man from Plains" about Jimmy Carter and his most recent book. I've got to say that Jonathan Demme is one of the better filmmakers of our time. Ever since Stop Making Sense, a video concert of the Talking Heads was released I've been a fan. What I like about Demme is the unbiased and personal approach. I've always said of good photographers and painters whom work with portraiture that the best approach is to be as transparent as possible so as to not influence the subject in any manner. This film does just that as it documents... [read on]

Design

Drupal 6 Design

1pm - May 31 2008 ·

I've spent some time today dissecting Drupal 6 themes. I've had a bitter taste in my mouth for Joomla and Drupal since way back when I didn't have as much knowledge as I do now. But I'll say that Drupal 6 has a theming system that is far above par to say the least and it might push some more designers over to Drupal Here's what I've learned. First and foremost, my favorite javascript library JQuery is ready to roll in Drupal 6 as part of the core and targeting elements with it is cake. JQuery is light and easy to use. This will give some much better modules for Drupal design. So here's the brief on it. One thing... [read on]

Code

Social Programming

8am - April 22 2008 ·

While the supposed grand ole days of helpful and responsive use net forums went by before i even opened a script on a computer.. what's evolved of so called social networking is seemingly working it's way with dynamic apps into programming circles which makes sense considering it really began there in the first place. Being entirely self taught, I've learned quickly that the best way to do things is to stand on the shoulders of giants and keep up with the user groups of the things that i want to learn. This concept of sharing documentation and information is ever so important to the open source communities and it... [read on]

Ideas

KidZui

12pm - June 4 2008 ·

I check the Google Zeitgeist every so often to see what's going on out there and this morning I noticed that KidZui was on fire. So I checked it out by downloading the app, installing it and testing. I can see where this is absolutely essential for parents. KidZui is a self contained application that contains a browser of sorts that. It runs smoothly and has a lot of features that make it a customized browsing experience including social networking tools. What it allows parents to do is give the kids and internet browser that is safe to use. It claims to have rounded up 600,000 kid friendly sites and parents can add... [read on]

Notes

Stuff

Recent

Facelift Image Replacement

9pm - August 20 2008 ·

Time Lapse

7pm - August 17 2008 ·

Last night I managed to put up my third Drupal installation with some cool time lapse photography. I recently sat through an informative lesson in Drupal development and design from Jonathan DeLaigle. I have found that Drupal... [read on]

WWDC 2008

9am - June 10 2008 ·

I've got to say and I think most folks would too, that I actually enjoy watching the keynote presentations from Apple and Steve Jobs. So here's the lowdown... of course the anticipated Iphone 3G was announced and it goes up for... [read on]

Man from Plains

3pm - June 6 2008 ·

KidZui

12pm - June 4 2008 ·

Drupal 6 Design

1pm - May 31 2008 ·

Slice of Paradise

2pm - May 23 2008 ·

Why has it been a month since i've published anything new? 1) I will no longer be accepting freelance assignments with limited exceptions. 2) We are moving to the Aiken, Edgefield, Augusta Area. 3) I am going to work with Morris... [read on]

Maintenance Mode

10am - May 3 2008 ·

Excuse the mess, I'm working on the site design today. It's been a really long week with a bunch of cool things going on that I'll let you in on later. We had breakfast this morning at the diner and then later this afternoon... [read on]

Social Programming

8am - April 22 2008 ·

Siddhartha

6pm - April 18 2008 ·

I took the afternoon off this afternoon as i was a bit worn out hunching over a bunch of sites, code, and monitors today. I put a chair outside to enjoy the sun and get rid of some of my programmer's tan... and I managed to... [read on]

Benchmarking Beta

6am - April 17 2008 ·

(this site over the last 30 days) Google Analytics released a beta version of something they call benchmarking... it's good. I hear all the time.. my site got x number of hits, and i say to myself.."what kind of hits" because... [read on]

Postgres Python update..

6pm - April 16 2008 ·

Python 2.5.2, Postgres 8.3.1, and Django .96 i've been playing around again with python today... i went ahead and upgraded my postgresql and python on my machine... nothing too tough, although i spent an hour going in loops... [read on]

Turbo Tax

11am - April 10 2008 ·

I think i can endorse it...i'm certainly not an accountant or tax expert, but i like knowing exactly how it works vs. paying someone so i don't have to think about it. i have very little expenses and most of my work is freelance... [read on]

Facebook

10am - April 3 2008 ·

gotta love it.. i was dragging this morning.. opened my email at 6:30am and sure enough there was my high school prom picture (thats me in on the far left with the strange expression) staring me in the face some 15 years later.... [read on]

Wordpress 2.5

9am - March 31 2008 ·

The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.5) is now available. WordPress.com hosts 2.7 million WordPress blogs...and in honor of that i put up my own little space on wordpress. Let's put wordpress into perspective for... [read on]

Jeff Sells Charleston

4pm - March 28 2008 ·

To wrap up the week before Ginny and I have to run down to Savannah for a wedding I'll drop another case study on you. Jeff Dail is a great guy with a house full of young'ns.. even though he is originally from North Carolina... [read on]

Fishing Lures

9am - March 26 2008 ·

this is a recent conversation with my neighbor dan wheeler. (me) "hey dirty, why are those chicken bones hanging on your fishing lures?" (dan) "those aren't chicken bones... they're alligator snapping turtle bones... you missed... [read on]

Easter Moodle

1pm - March 23 2008 ·

easter humor... ...and today i put up a moodle site on a server for testing and customizing... and i've decided to try my hand at writing a flash based graphing plugin as my good deed for easter.. Moodle is a free software e-learning... [read on]

Fonts

2pm - March 22 2008 ·

on a recent project.. i ran into some font troubles and learned some stuff along the way.. i've heard it again and again from various computer users... and on this particular project ...when i was handed the eps files to convert... [read on]

Advertising and the Idiot Box

10am - March 16 2008 ·

let's face it.. that computer screen you watching as you read this post and it's parent network of millions of servers are full of junk and in many ways not to different than our old idiot tube. It's all in how you use it that... [read on]

Harbourtowne - 30th Anniversary

8am - March 12 2008 ·

Fudgy Brabham, the broker in Charge of Harbourtowne and Trident Real Estate is celebrating thirty years this year. Fudgy and I have mulled over the impact of the internet to real estate in the last three years. I met Fudgy... [read on]

Native Orleanian

8pm - March 2 2008 ·

Jerry Moran is a photographer in New Orleans that i had met while in a gallery there. He takes a lot of images of musicians from in and around norleans. he contacted me after we had left new orleans because he was in need a... [read on]

nginx

4pm - February 29 2008 ·

nginx (i'm guessing it's pronounced "engine x") usage on websites worldwide went up 800% from 07 as compared to January 08 according to netcraft.. apache still dominates in hosting, but i'm convinced that microsoft's portion... [read on]

Web Design SC

9am - February 29 2008 ·

Over the last three years working with the web, designers, and developers (interactive agencies or what ever you want to call yourself....i've made mental notes on some of the best web development and design firms in South Carolina... [read on]

Saint John Coltrane

7pm - February 26 2008 ·

i'll be... ginny got me a really cool shirt since i have expressed on a number of occasions that 'lush life' by john coltrane would be my favorite album of all time if i had one. Anyway.. i opened the mail today and i saw..... [read on]

FITC Amsterdam How Boston

1am - February 24 2008 ·

i'll take a moment of silence to wish that i was in amsterdam starting tomorrow for the FITC conference.. it pretty much the best programmers in the world on actionscript.. they wrote the books literally... and what it reminds... [read on]

wiki leaks

7pm - February 23 2008 ·

i had read this on friday in the nytimes and did some follow up.. wiki leaks is ordered to be shut off.. the judge orders the domain registrar.. they comply and thousands of people like me immediately begin posting this link..... [read on]

binary data portability

2pm - February 23 2008 ·

i'm doing this logo for a contest because i believe in the cause and there's a free iphone to boot.. (i'm always on ginny's and i just installed a decent plugin for mobile editing of this site).. seems that Red Hat recently sent... [read on]