It's been awhile since my last post; clearly I'm not a natural blogger. Most of life seems ok by itself without clothing (cloaking?) it in meta. But then again.... Noticed awhile ago I posted about improving the Image Conscious web site by changing the slideshow image generation from manual
AcademyX JS for Programmers + jQuery Brush-Ups
Just completed two courses at AcademyX SF: Javascript for Programmers and JQuery Fundamentals, both very ably taught by Ben Jaffe. The classes were a great review of both. There are always things to catch up on, techniques I just haven't used before; plus I'm always rotating between PHP, HTML/CSS
new multilayer 3-d vertical scroll effect
Check out the jobs page on the AirBNB web site. There's a multilayer vertical scroll effect emulating depth which I have never seen before. It's visually pretty rocking-cool. I wonder where else it's being used, if anywhere -- I don't recall seeing it elsewhere. Very cool!
A better slideshow for Image Conscious
Yesterday I rewrote the code for the slide show / carousel on my site at Image Conscious. Up till now I've had a bit of a process for updating the content on the slide show, which frankly was seriously making it hard to promptly deliver changes. It involved gathering product shots, building an
Photoshop Workshop
It's that time again. Teaching my longtime Beginning Photoshop workshop the next two Saturdays at Kala Art Institute -- which has many more interesting classes besides.
XSS attempt = captcha
Seems that a hacker finally had a go at the silentfilm.org press accreditation form, about 100 attempts in a minute or so. Hopefully some basic newline character filtering stymied them, and the new recaptcha widget will slow future attempts.
lockout
That was weird. Password rejected, had to backdoor my wp installation. Does that happen a lot?
stylin’
Stage one wp redesign, thematic child theme version. Still in progress, and progressing only in fits, starts.