MacOSX has Grapher?

Did anyone else know this? I thought it was a cool discovery, so for all those nerds out there who want to graph things like acceleration, easing… Cmd + Spacebar “grapher” that shit.

Traversing/Navigating Objects in Javascript

Once in a while, you learn something and go years before encountering the same scenario again. By that time you’ve probably forgotten all about it’s idiosyncrasy. Well… I just spent 2 hours messing around with Javascript Objects. You see early on, I adopted a strict use of dot syntax. It jived with me so that’s what I used. I would

Sending JSON Headers from PHP

I ♥ data. My favorite way of sending data to the front end is of course, JSON. So here’s a quick snippet to get you up and running with some JSON destined for the front end. First off, PHP is great with arrays. Luckily there’s a nifty little function PHP includes called “json_encode()”. It takes a multidimensional PHP array and

Defaulting Images When Originals Don’t Exist

I needed to a profile image of some people recently. However, the profile images are hosted on another server and some people don’t have pictures. Unfortunately there’s no sure fire way to test for the existence of an image on a remoter server other than a cURL script to load a header and check for a 404 error. Since I’m

Load jQuery from Google with Fallback to Local File

Quick one today, because I have shit to do… If you don’t know why you should load your jQuery file from Google read about some of the advantages here. But what if for some reason Google’s CDN is unavailable…like say you’re working on the site from a local copy and U haz no interwebs??? Write a simple script that checks

F**k if I Know

Hey all, I don’t know what this is… I was making it to run some tests – on whether or not isolating live video of people’s faces in a google + hangout was possible. It turns out, not really – yet. Anyway I made this test to see if there was a way to show only a portion of a

HTML5 vs. Flash in the Infinite Battle of the Inconsequential

I just got an email at work comparing Flash to HTML5 in an info graphic…this is unprecedented… One thing before I begin my self righteous diatribe: The reality is that both technologies (actually HTML5 is really a combo of JS, CSS and HTML5) are good in certain situations an not others…there’s no silver bullet. You would not find me arguing

Interactive Tablet Ad Examples

I’ve been looking for a directory of iPad ad examples and I can’t find anything… So here’s what I’ve pulled together: USA Network | White Collar | HTML5 Gamified Banner Ad on the iPad from Glow Interactive on Vimeo. Camaro : iPad Ad from Fabio Seidl on Vimeo. IBM Smarter Cities Rich Media Campaign on iPad from Crisp Media on

Contact Mics

Since I need someplace to catalog potentially useful technologies (essentially stick them in a digital filing cabinet for use later) and I don’t have the time to code demos as often as I’d like, I’ve decided to start talking about devices, patterns, creations and all manner of tech as well as code demos and my own creations. First on my

SOPA Script

I thought it would be interesting to make a script to censor your content to help draw attention to how ridiculous SOPA is. So I made something you can drop onto your site and it’ll automatically censor parts of your content (note this requires jQuery). DEMO or DOWNLOAD It’s fairly straight forward. First we set a window load event and