Intro to Java Observer Pattern
We are well into this whole patterns thing now, picking up lots of new lingo, and becoming better at communicating with other developers. Next on the list: the observer pattern. This is an important...
View ArticleSpace Needle Reflections
This post is all about the space needle, and reflections. Annie and I were out walking through the Seattle Center area when I noticed the reflections on the side of the Music Experience building. Annie...
View ArticleI hate pair programming
¬† First, to clarify, I don’t hate the two lovely girls in this picture, but they can be quite the pair. Second, my mother told me never to say hate, so maybe that was not a good title. How about “I...
View ArticleUpgrading WordPress and MySql on 1and1
Upgrading WordPress is trivial now. I wanted to upgrade from 2.8 to 2.9, so I went to my dashboard and pressed the “Please update now” link. I got a few warnings, a message to make sure I did a backup...
View ArticleFull Screen Slideshow in Javascript
So I now have a full screen slideshow in Javascript, without using flash, and I wanted to tell you how I did it, and how you can do it too. I will talk a bit about Javascript here, but you will be...
View ArticleAre you iPad Ready? (No flash allowed)
Are you a photographer with a flash site? Do you know that the iPad, just like the iPhone, will not display flash content? What’s a photographer to do? Scott Kelby looked at this earlier today. When...
View ArticleiPad Ready and bgStretcher2 Update
I took this picture, from my iPod, of an iPad showing off my portfolio. It looks amazing. The images are actually sized perfectly for this device. But there was something weird. All the images in the...
View ArticleThickbox content over flash movie.
I have been using the ThickBox plugin for WordPress on my site for a while now. When you click on a link, the images are shown in their own window with a darkened background. This worked great until I...
View ArticleNew Version of bgStretcher2
Yea, we have a new version of the bgStretcher2 script. The version has been bumped from 2.0 to 2.1 and it is available for download right now. See the bgStretcher page. What is bgStretcher? Well,...
View ArticleUpgrade to bgStretcher2
The bgStretcher2 script is now at version 2.2. This script allows you to view images full screen using only javascript and no flash. One side effect of showing an image that fills the screen in both...
View ArticleCreating a Hapi Api in Node
I have written a couple of blog posts for Object Partners where I now work. They are both on creating a web server, or more specifically a web service API, with Node. The standard library to use is...
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