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Using CSS and JavaScript to Randomize Background Images
I was working on a website and wanted to add a fun bit of flair by having the background rotate through a batch of images. So every time the website loaded it would have a different image. I did a little research, but none of the solutions were all that great. So I coded up…
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Our Browsers Lie
Our Problem As UI Designers, UX Designers, and Web Developers our main goal is to provide the best experience possible to the users of our products. Sadly our first means of determining who this user is is their browser. Browsers lie and omit. Let us count the ways: Methods of Failure So here are the…
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De-reflector the Aero
I hated the cluttered rear on this bike. So I cleared off the reflectors. I’m going to add lights down the road to increase the visibility.
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Thoughts on Adobe …A Parody of Mr. Jobs
This is a direct parody of Steve Jobs letter about Flash.It is intended to be thought provoking, insightful, and inciting. Being a Macintosh SE, iPhone, iPad, PowerMac, PowerBook, home built PC, Windows using web, Flash, print developer that has working in the training development, corporate marketing, and software development industries for too long… I couldn’t…
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IE8 Compatability Mode Strikes My Blog
I have started working with a new client for some web design work and they were reviewing my site to see my skills… When whammo, my menus are broken and they can’t get into my portfolio. I immediately open IE8 to see what is wrong and I don’t see anything weird. That’s when I remember…
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Sleeping with the enemy – I am running Windows 7
I never thought I’d see the day when I would upgrade past Windows XP, but it is here. Windows 7 RC is nice; it is almost bug free, fairly well organized, supports Direct X 10, and seems to support most of my hardware. Additionally, I felt no growing pains with my current level of RAM,…
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Where have you been?
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 will get to draw on…
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No rest for the wicked…or so they say
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 should be a great opportunity for me.…
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Cory, Corey, Corry, Correy…
A few years ago I started researching my ancestry. I’ve been told of our ancestry as being something of a mix of Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French, Prussian, and German to name a few. A bit of a European mutt if you will. So the next logical step was to try and research my last name…
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‘People-ready business’ or How to market unstable software
It seems that Microsoft’s biggest critics, bloggers, are now being asked to write what ‘People-ready business’ means to them as a way to bolster the phrase and Microsoft’s association with business. This strikes me as a flailing attempt to garner support in people’s minds to think of Microsoft as a business software company. Yes, they…