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My first guest post at buildinternet.com

April 26th, 2010

I wrote the third part of the embeddable mp3 players series over at buildinternet.com. Those guys graciously allowed me to geek out on their blog. Since they get way more traffic than I do, I think more people will find it useful. You can see how they make me look good here: http://buildinternet.com/2…

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I love jQuery

April 18th, 2010

The theme GeekOut, which as of this moment I am using on this site and may release once I decide to go in a different direction with the design, uses jQuery to accomplish a number of things. 1. The animations that are featured both in the navigation and the social media icons I’m using the jQuery an…

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Helpful WordPress Shortcode – showthumbs

April 6th, 2010

I was working on my daughter’s blog, which might be the most robust blog I’ve built, because it is my testing grounds for new features to add to WordPress sites/blogs. Tonight I added a neat kind of functionality, something I’d like to share. Shortcode to show thumbnails. Here&#…

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Building stuff

March 30th, 2010

We have a sort of tradition in my little family. Every Saturday we get up and make breakfast together. Sometimes we make Eggs, Bacon, biscuits and hash browns, other mornings we have waffles or pancakes. It’s always a fun way to start the day together. The next thing we do is something productiv…

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Exploring Mobile Web Apps, day 1

March 23rd, 2010

Tonight I cracked open jQTouch and started poking around. First let me say that this thing is incredible. It’s really impressive. It’s almost hard to believe that it’s only jQuery and CSS3, but it’s really impressive. From Jonathan Stark’s talk I knew he had a text…

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SXSW – Great Conference

March 17th, 2010

So, we just got back from SXSW, and I must say I’m a little distracted today thinking about all the cool people we met and neat things I learned. I just want to do a mind dump real quick about some of the stuff I’m excited about. My web development abilities For the past year, I’ve sort o…

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Headed to SXSW

March 12th, 2010

We’ve been delayed twice, and are now 2 hours behind, but we’re still on our way. Apparently there’s bad weather in Atlanta, where our flight connects. ::later that day:: Our connecting flight to Austin was canceled. Which sucks, but we’ve been put on a later flight. I hop…

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Adding PHP powered color control variables.

February 28th, 2010

I’m not sure if this was a waste of time, but I’m not in love with the colors I’m using on my site. When I built the theme, I kind of knew I’d get tired of the colors, so I made an index at the top showing what colors were used, it looks like this: /* Colors Used:===================…

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First Screencast Up – WordPress Snippets

February 26th, 2010

I posted this video to http://screenr.com today, you can see it at http://screenr.com/J2h. This site is an incredible resource, which I plan on using a few more times in the next week or so. Below is the video. Watch in full screen to see the code more clearly. Other Posts in this SeriesFirst Screencas…

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