I’ve been playing with FFmpeg over the last year to encode video files for Flash. I’ve mainly experimented with my golf swing and created a little app to compare each frame of my swing to a pro’s. This helps me identify all my many flaws and easily visualize what I’m doing wrong. [...]

I probably spend about 5 hours a week reading blogs and about the same writing. I’d love to spend more writing, but my time has been pretty limited with work and a few projects. At any rate, I found the link below highly interesting and I wish someone could run the same type [...]

Everyone has their opinion on this one so here’s mine. I love HTML email when I’m not dealing with spam or someone spoofing that they’re ebay or PayPal and trying to grab my account information. Then there’s always the people who write malicious scripts hoping that I’ll open the email and let them [...]

I’m definitely thankful and blessed with great family, friends, co-workers, and colleagues. But this isn’t about them….today I’m extremely thankful for my job and the fact that I don’t have this one.

I’ve spent a lot of time lately transitioning from ColdFusion to Ruby on Rails. I love CF, but I’ve been looking for a change of pace and RoR provides numerous features that make it extremely attractive. One of the reasons I started using CF was the fact that everything was simple and tag [...]

If you’re looking for something for mom or grandma then consider these stocking stuffers. I have to plug Jamie’s site every now and then because it helps her search engine ratings and will hopefully help drive traffic to her site.
Plus she lets me do all the design which I enjoy since most of my [...]

I’ve been helping a good friend of mine get his blog site up and running. When most of us think of blogs we think about technology, politics, and business…..but what about shoes? Bill has jumped on the blog bandwagon and realizes the potential of how it can help get his name out there, [...]

I find inspiration in my wife, daughter, friends, family, co-workers and even myself. I’m on a constant mission to find inspiration and fulfillment in my life as well as my work. At any rate, a co-worker pointed me to a Steve Jobs commencement speech for Stanford University:
http://www.wiredatom.com/jobs_stanford_speech/
I’ve always had the utmost respect for [...]

Okay Google, you officially have competition. I’ve never considered MSN Virtual Earth much of a threat to Google Maps. After playing around with Yahoo’s Mapping Beta I was impressed with the richness and functionality of their Flash implementation.
Google has definitely set the standard for mapping applications and everyone has given tremendous credit to [...]

From here on out I will honor World Usability Day and take the day off work (November 3rd). Every year I pledge to improve the usability of the software I write and not design somethign just because it’s “cool”. Yes coolness plays an important role in design, but I want to make it [...]