Archive for 2008

Javascript Slideshow

Monday, December 29th, 2008

We’ve been using flash for a simple slideshow features on some client sites. I decided to look into using Javascript/jQuery to provide the same functionality.  I used the jQuery Cycle plugin and made some additions to allow for better control of image preloading.

Why switch?
-Eliminate the dependence on Flash.  Users who don’t have flash installed [...]

MySQL Spatial Extensions

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

I was looking for some way to do proximity searches for a client and came across these features in MySQL 5.x and higher:

MySQL Spatial Extensions

The extensions allow indexing of geospatial data so that you can quickly evaluate relationships between geometries.  Currently, the only completely implemented functions are the Minimal Bounding Rectangles (MBR) functions. So, for [...]

Look who’s e-publishing:offer on Kindle/Sony eBook

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

After reading about the coming explosion of e-readers (granted it’s been a long time coming) here: ebooks taking hold, I started wondering how publishers actually prepare their content for the readers.

I suppose Amazon and the like will bend over backwards to cut deals with the big names and do the conversion for them, but can [...]

Web Redesign: Trichotillomania Learning Center

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

The new TLC web design by Dayspring is now live: www.trich.org. TLC did a great job getting content in which allowed us to get the site up quickly.

Design by Janet M. Programming assistance by Matt C. Thanks for all your hard work, and congratulations to the TLC team!

TLC Web Redesign

Golden Valley Camp redesign goes live!

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

The new Web design for Golden Valley Camp is now live. Great design, Paul! Look at the Photo Albums – you may see some recognizable mugs.

Both Delbert and Phillis, the camp managers, are so grateful for our partnership. Congratulations on a great new site!

Golden Valley Camp Web Redesign

DCM China, DCM Japan Released

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

The Chinese and Japanese versions of DCM’s recent Web redesign have been released. You can use the little flags, coded by our very own Jeff W, at the top right to toggle between languages.

No matter the language, we have a very pleased client.

Deeplinking in Flash interface

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

So I’ve spent a couple days playing and getting the flex application to have deep linking.

First, what is “deep linking”? Normally with Flash apps that you see when you load the flash application it always starts in some state. Then as the state of the application is changed by clicking things, etc. the [...]

Moving your mail to GMail, the free and easy(ier) way

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

So I got tired of Yahoo! Mail and wanted to move to GMail.  However, to get your mail out of Yahoo you’ve go to use POP3… and for that feature you pay $20/yr.  Right.  Sure.  I’m going to pay $20 to leave Yahoo… Wrong.

I had read many schemes for trying to get out of Yahoo’s [...]

Drupal5: click on the menu, render a page — how it happens

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

The process below basically covers it, thought there are other mildly related and incidental things happening along the way.  The steps are given below are in the order they actually happen in the code.  Looking at this process in this way, it seems so simple…

You click on a menu link (or any link, really) in [...]

Want to send email to the circular file during testing?

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

So I am sending a ton of email from PHP right now in the section of an app that I am writing.

I want to see the emails I am sending but I don’t want them sent. Sound familiar? Well, I found a tool that will take care of this situation. It [...]