http://joelcory.com/blog Design, Develop, Illustrate, Photograph Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:33:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well no quite, maybe more like ten. The last time I swung my leg over a bike for an actual race. This Sunday I plan on running with the bulls in Sacramento. It's Cyclocross season again and I've got that itch again to race. The series here in Sacramento begins ... http://joelcory.com/blog/2008/09/17/it-was-20-years-ago-today/ Has anyone else run into problems with their JSON and Firefox 3? We are rounding up development on one of the projects I am working on and Firefox 3 has thrown us a curve ball. Firefox 2, Safari 2.04, Safari 3, IE 6, IE 7 all test out fine on ... http://joelcory.com/blog/2008/07/13/firefox-3-and-json/ Wow it's amazing how much press my little mixer project has received. Here is another mention of the Flameka.com site and my mixer is the one pictured. http://joelcory.com/blog/2008/07/13/my-mixer-is-mentioned-again/ For a while there I bet you all thought I'd stopped writing. Yes and no. I had stopped for a bit, but I'm baaaack... I've been really busy with my new position at Pearson. What can I say...I love my job. It's busy, I work with great people, I'm challenged daily ... http://joelcory.com/blog/2008/03/23/how-have-you-been/ I've got two items of note for web developers. One is good...one is evil. First the good news... In the search to make my life easier I discovered this fantastic download. This company, Tredosoft, building on the discoveries of predecessors, figured out how to organize DLL files to make IE function ... http://joelcory.com/blog/2008/02/08/the-bane-of-web-developers-existenceinternet-explorer/ I've got a few slick scripts that I thought I would share with the world. These are simple scripts for toggling buttons, and it works without components. Simple version: sd_mc._visible = false; sd_btn.onRelease = function() { if (!sd_mc._visible) { sd_mc._visible = true; } else if (sd_mc._visible) { sd_mc._visible = false; } }; Example file and source: sample swf sample fla (source) More complex ... http://joelcory.com/blog/2008/01/18/cool-actionscriptand-its-free/ Well...to make a long story short I'm a loser. Not in the classical "parental basement dwelling" sense of the word, but in the "I'm neglecting my blog sense". So here are the updates. I've started my new job at a fantastic company Pearson, as the Senior User Interface Designer. I ... http://joelcory.com/blog/2008/01/09/where-have-you-been/ Wow what a week. I start a new job this Monday...tomorrow. I'll be working for Pearson Education in Rancho Cordova. So I won't be a contractor at HP anymore. I'll miss my friends there; Greg Willey, Rick "The beer guy" Sellers, and Dave Glass. This position at Pearson ... http://joelcory.com/blog/2007/12/16/no-rest-for-the-wickedor-so-they-say/ I have participated from time to time on the DT&G forums. Mostly to get feedback on site designs, and to provide suggestions to other designers. I got this flippant comment on my design by somebody named fred. (I didn't capitalize his name, because he didn't) I chose to respond, by ... http://joelcory.com/blog/2007/12/06/i-think-i-picked-a-fight-with-fred-showker/ Many people now rely on the web as a source for their lifestyles; research, maps, gossip, movie rentals, shopping. Now that this tool is so heavily used I thought it would be good to think about where it started, and where it is today from a design perspective. In the ... http://joelcory.com/blog/2007/12/03/where-is-web-design-today/