I see my photos in the oddest places – but it was funny see one show up on my employer’s website. Here’s the shot of Japanther from Aug 8th in downtown Troy.
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@font-face in Firefox 5
June 28, 2011 –
I always thought my tests with @font-face looked a little crunchy in FF. We’ll, they look great in FF5.
Getting out of Google Maps
June 21, 2011 –
I have an interest in the curatorial and way-finding possibilities made possible by GPS and web enabled mobile devices. Over the winter I investigated attaching data produced in a CMS to a map by adding latitude and longitude fields to Drupal. I wrote a custom template to spit out data as KML so it could [...]
Web Systems Development at RPI
May 16, 2011 –
This semester, the weather got nice just as we started exploring HTML5. I’d also noticed that about half my students had smart phones – the only reasonable thing to do was design a phone-based location logger lab. I had the students get things working inside and then they went out to collect data by walking [...]
Menands Bridge Connection
May 8, 2011 –
The new connection from S. Troy to the Albany bike trail is a huge win. We went down to Albany today and it was nice to avoid doubling back through Watervliet and fighting with the Congress St. Bridge.
JSON output in Drupal 7
April 17, 2011 –
I need to expose some nodes in Drupal 7 as JSON for downstream consumers. I spend about 45 minutes Googleing for a Drupal 7 module with functionality like “views datasource” in Drupal 6 – found nothing – wrote this instead: (created mytheme/page–json.tpl.php) <?php header(“HTTP/1.0 200 OK”); $uri_parts = explode(‘/’, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); $input = intval($uri_parts[count($uri_parts)-1]); if(is_int($input) && [...]
Railroad Photography
March 15, 2011 –
I’ve been trying some railroad photography inspired by the 1950′s stuff. Oddly enough, I’ve found the mainline style stuff far harder than getting photos of the people who make the whole operation work (people complain that a number of factors make it impossible to shoot people and trains at the same time). Next up: some [...]
Model Railroad Photography
January 8, 2011 –
My father wrote an article on creating period fonts for the October 2010 Model Railroad Craftsman. I took the model photos for him. I tried something new on this shot and was pretty pleased with the results. I created a sky-like canopy over the entire area included in the shot with umbrellas. The thought was [...]
Deploying a Website for Pioneer Market
December 27, 2010 –
Pioneer Market is a Food Coop in Troy, NY. In October, the market opened its storefront, at which point the marketing team needed a means to edit and expand the website. We deployed a Drupal instance to replace the mainly flat site that Ola and I built during the coop’s member recruitment phase. Ola managed [...]
Your Crush, On the Big Board
December 22, 2010 –
I just noticed likealittle and thought what they were doing was pretty awesome. And then I thought: this would be so much more awesome if the notices were somehow posted in the location where they were made. Here is a first pass I wrote a script to search for images of RPI and to screen [...]