Archive for the ‘thoughts’ Category
on Bypassing Apple Pages
I have Pages loaded on my laptop, but not on my desktop, and I rarely pull out my laptop these days. Every once in a while I get documents sent to me in Apple’s Pages format, though, and it really irks me that it’s such a proprietary format that other programs (including Apple’s own TextEdit) [...]
on Event Calendar 3 for Wordpress
I’ve recently been converting a client’s website over to WordPress. Since I haven’t spent much time developing my own blog on WordPress (a carpenter’s house, right?), I thought this would be an excellent opportunity to look into plugins and further customization.
One plugin that I found particularly useful for this client was Event Calendar 3. On [...]
on Javascript Tabbed Content
For a recent project, I had several topics that were broken down into similar subsections (i.e. Topic 1 had sections, a, b, and c; Topic 2 also had sections a, b, and c). I could have had three pages for each topic, but section c was very short – just an image and a couple [...]
on MacHeist
well, here’s to another MacHeist. if you’ve never participated, treat yourself next time. and if you want a little peek into my psyche, in my ideal world every day would be a day for a heist. normally i’m not too concerned about the free apps that heisting rewards me with, but i’m actually super stoked [...]
on Footers Attached to Bottoms
so it’s been a little while since i posted last, mostly because i’ve been busy transferring things over to my new 3.06 GHz, 24″ screen iMac (can you hear my revelry?) – a task both easy and harder than i thought. it comes with a lot of decisions for me: do i transfer everything over, [...]
on mooTicker v0.4
UPDATE #3 well, after dedicating a better part of the day trying to recreate the issue I was having with v.0.4.2 and the updated v.0.4.3, i redact my previous statement about having a stacking issue. i don’t know what was going on before, but the stacking issue wasn’t due to the mooTicker code. i’ve updated [...]
on Apple Fever (part II)
okay. so i waited up until 2:45 am last night, refreshing the refurbished section of the apple store, hoping to find the MacBook Pro i’ve been dreaming of staring lovingly back at me. when at 2:45 the store was still being updated, i found an online alarm clock, set it for 3:45 and got a [...]
on Apple Fever
okay. how ridiculous is this: it’s coming on 2 am sunday morning, and i’m sitting at my computer doing odds and ends (and watching the office on hulu), hitting refreshing firefox every couple of minutes, waiting for the ‘we’ll be back soon’ post-it note to leave the apple store.
the backstory: i’ve been ready for a [...]
on Growin’ Up
well, i’m a soon to be father! my wife ashley and i have known for a while, but we didn’t start telling family and friends until the holidays. we’ve started a blog for our new happy family. so if you aren’t into babies, this will (probably) be the last you have to hear about it [...]
on Raining and Pouring
wow. it’s crunch time here for me. i’ve got a lot of stuff to finish up this week, and i just added two new clients to the list today. planning when things are pouring like this gets tricky, but i think i’m doing a pretty good job at it. i guess i have a lot [...]