The issue of CSS opacity being unwittingly inherited by child elements has come up several times, so below is my workaround. There are several options: Create the desired effect with a .png or some other image format with the “alpha” value. This method works well in terms of browser support, but increases loading times and the amount of work a developer would
I’m prepping for an interview tomorrow with CP+B and wanted to share a good technique for getting ready. Have goals for the interview, details you want to talk about Prepare some talking points on specific items in your portfolio Write some clear goals for your future in the industry, how do you see yourself changing the industry? Create an evaluation
Toyota Yaris Project We did some initial concepting and creative for Toyota in order to engage niche communities to increase brand awareness and loyalty in younger generations. Team… Lead/Presentation/Copy: Jon Swihart Concept: Jesse Weaver, Mike Newell Creative: Brad Dechter, Max Minor and Megan Newton Description… The purpose of this project was to engage a targeted community and introduce Toyota in
This isn’t a new practice by any means, if your PHP developer is worth their salt they will recommend relying on a third party to authenticate users like Facebook or Twitter whenever possible. What about the times when you can’t rely on third parties to authenticate your users? After the Gawker incident there was a large push for better password
In this part of the series on “do it yourself” smart homes we head over to the shower where we’ll be installing an infrared sensor to monitor when we get in and out of the shower. This can provide us with a lot of useful information including an estimation of our water usage and trending to let us know our
Our program (Boulder Digital Works) recently hosted the Making Digital Work conference in Boulder. Jesse Weaver and I were requested to help with the conference. The idea was to split the conference attendees into teams and develop an idea. They would come up with two variations of that idea and create some copy/keyword combinations to test between. Then Jesse and
Recently I built the backend for the Instavision TV and wanted to give a quick tutorial on how to build one yourself. Brian Fouhy, George Tong, Jesse Weaver and Pedro Sorrentino actually made this TV a reality. Materials Retro looking TV VGA to Coaxial adapter Old Laptop Instagram account Instagram API Client ID, Client Secret and an Access Token Node.js Shell access
Recently, I had the need to re-order posts in wordpress according to a specifically numbered tag. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t let you order post output by tag since that’s usually what categories are used for. So I decided to capture all the output into a multidimensional array. However, I still needed some way to sort the array and asort(); wasn’t the
I recently had some confusion about x-debug on a mac. I read online when I googled it that it’s not possible to debug with netbeans on a mac using x-debug. Not true, so I wanted to clarify and release some instructions on how to do this. Prerequisites… Make sure you have netbeans and xampp installed on your local machine. This
UPDATE (4/3/12): I’ve fixed the “marchingCubes” error. Please click the link below to get an updated script. I’m leaving this page up for reference only. UPDATED SCRIPT Here’s a simple modification to a sketch that renders polygonal meshes from point clouds. All I did was strap a kinect to it. Most of the credit goes to Daniel Schiffman and Rui