Superfancy

Flash Media Server

Category: Coding on December 10. 2008 with no comments — Bookmark this article

I originally published this earlier this year on a blog related to my day job that I decided to retire. I’m republishing it here for the sake of posterity…

So here in WA State we have a new law going into effect on 6/12 that’s called the Distressed Properties Law. It will profoundly change how REALTORS® deal with foreclosures. To put it lightly, it has been a big deal for us getting our membership educated on the finer details and protocols called for in this new law.

At Washington REALTORS®, our Communications and IT departments are one and the same. I’m usually involved in bringing certain aspects of our PR campaigns to the web. The Distressed Properties campaign has been no different.

(more…)

Tags: flash, flash media server, influxis

Firefox Add-ons: Web Developer Toolbar

Category: Coding on December 10. 2008 with no comments — Bookmark this article

I originally published this earlier this year on a blog related to my day job that I decided to retire. I’m republishing it here for the sake of posterity…

I must say I spend the vast majority of my day in Firefox which is probably the case for many web developer types out there. It is the de facto browser for development for a myriad of reasons… adherence to W3C standards (for the most part) being the biggest. But I think what gets me most excited about Firefox is the mind boggling array of add-ons available to developers. The foremost of which, in my opinion, is Chris Pedrick’s Web Developer Toolbar.

This add-on has so many amazing features that I will only introduce you to a few that I use regularly… ones that can save you huge amounts of time in debugging and help make your development cycle more efficient in general.

(more…)

Tags: CSS, firefox, w3c, web developer toolbar

Easy Image Editing With Picnik!

Category: Coding on December 10. 2008 with no comments — Bookmark this article

I originally published this earlier this year on a blog related to my day job that I decided to retire. I’m republishing it here for the sake of posterity…

So I don’t know about you but I do a lot of image editing and optimization in my everyday web development tasks. Typically, in times past, I’ve used Adobe Fireworks CS3 and Adobe Photoshop CS3 for these activities. I’m still a heavy Fireworks user (I just love the CS3 update) but sometimes I want to do some quick and dirty editing without having to deal with the overhead of a desktop app (Photoshop I’m looking at you!). Enter Picnik.

(more…)

Tags: image editing, Photoshop, picnik

Introducing mod_mcpage

Category: Coding on September 29. 2008 with no comments — Bookmark this article

My buddy Jeremy Bingham, CTO for Daily Kos, just released a new caching patch called mod_mcpage for lighttpd. He can describe it better than me… read his post about it on Daily Koz.

Tags: apache, Daily Koz, lighttpd

Simple customization of Wordpress Sidebar Login Plugin

Category: Coding on September 25. 2008 with no comments — Bookmark this article

I came across this great Wordpress plugin yesterday called Sidebar Login. Like the name says, it lets you place a login form in your WordPress sidebar so you can bypass the typical WP login screen. I thought the plugin would be a nice addition to a site I’m finishing up at work. Here’s what it looks like on my site:

(more…)

Tags: Codex, php, Sidebar Login, Wordpress