Hi Folks!

Come help me celebrate the sunset of my twenties in Santa Cruz, the city where it all began.

At 1pm we’ll hit up the rides at the Boardwalk and consume inappropriate amounts of the following foods:

• Cotton candy
• Corndogs
• French fries
• Chocolate-dipped soft-serve ice cream cones

Then at 5pm we’ll set up a BONFIRE at Twin Lakes Beach and partake in some or all of the following activities:

• Tossing a ball around
• Roasting marshmallows
• Playing instruments and singing loudly
• Skinny dipping???

It would make me so happy to spend my 30th birthday with each and every one of you. And your significant other! If you can’t make it to either of the above activities, I’ll be in SC for most of the weekend so there may well be another opportunity for you to gaze upon my 30-year-old face.

RSVP on the Facebook event page or by commenting below.

Searching for a workaround, I came across a few different posts that helped me understand the issue better, but didn’t quite work in the context of a Facebook app.

The heart of the issue is this: the parent frame will take on the EOT font when that EOT loads for the iframe, if the parent frame has not already finished loading at the time.

The solution needs to be this: load the EOT for the font after the parent frame has finished loading.

To do this, we need to perform a little bit of javascript trickery (I’m using jQuery and Facebook Javascript SDK here).

1. Remove any EOT fonts from the CSS properties for all elements in your (iframed) page, but keep the @font-face declaration in your CSS file. Create a unique class for each EOT font. For example:

   @font-face {
font-family: 'CairoRegular';
src: url('cairo-webfont.eot');
src: url('cairo-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('cairo-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('cairo-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('cairo-webfont.svg#CairoRegular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

   .CairoRegular {
font-family: 'CairoRegular';
}

2. Next, create a function that adds this class to the elements that need it:

   function addfonts(){
$("#header h1,#content h3,#content h6,.cssbutton").addClass("CairoRegular");
$("#header h4,#header h2,#header h3").addClass("BallparkWeiner");
}

3. And finally, add the FB.Canvas.getPageInfo() function somewhere after your FB.init function and put your font function inside the callback:

   FB.Canvas.getPageInfo(function() {
addfonts();
});

   The getPageInfo() function was the closest thing I could find to a listener for the parent page load completion. If you can find something better, by all means use that.

FHP was looking for a design that was elegant and classy, yet simple. Since their letterhead was done in Bembo, I settled on Times New Roman as the closest/easiest match for a web font. I chose a blend of patterns, soft gradients, and subtle drop shadows to keep the eye moving around the page. In the development phase, my goal was to take advantage of the new capabilities of CSS3 as much as possible. I was very satisfied with the result in the modern browsers, but, of course, even IE9 left me disappointed. Someday.

Go-live was not, of course, without a few hitches. A few words to the wise:

• Before launching, check your server’s installed PHP version. If it’s less than 5, be prepared to turn off any fancy .htaccess tricks that your theme’s functions.php file contains. Otherwise you’ll get a 500 Internal Server Error.
• Stay away from Yahoo Small Business hosting if possible. They suck in the following ways:
• .htaccess file is not supported (no pretty permalinks)
  • Performance is poor
  • Mail can only be sent from the same domain (for Contact Form 7)
  • The MySQL database host is mysql instead of localhost as it appears to be
  • phpMyAdmin has to be installed in a directory within your site’s root. It is s-l-o-w

My role: Design — 100% Code — 100%

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The key steps in the conversion:

1. Instead of walking the character on an arrow button hover or arrow keydown, I used the accelerometer’s horizontal acceleration. Thus when the player tilts the device to the left or right, the character walks in that direction.
2. I converted most of the graphics from Flash vector drawings into PNGs. While a PC has the processor power to scale and move vector graphics quickly, phone processors are less beefy and have an easier time with bitmap graphics.
3. I downloaded the Adobe AIR SDK to compile the APK file and then downloaded the Android SDK to push the file to my DroidX for testing.

I haven’t published to the Android Market yet, but you can download and install the Cupcake Invaders app here.

This website echos the look and feel of the Dainese corporate site, but with a greater design emphasis on information and social networking. The site was built with WordPress.

My role: Design — 100% Code — 100%

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1. Find images on the web
2. Print the images
3. Trace the images on tracing paper with black ink
4. Scan the traced sketches into my computer
5. Print the traced sketches onto water-color paper
6. Add color to the sketches using paint
7. Scan the painted sketches into my computer
8. Arrange the scanned images for printing on perforated playing-card sheets
9. Print and detach the cards; smooth edges with sandpaper

To purchase a deck, please contact me.

The original script

My version:

$(function() {
    var options = {
		autoOpen: false,
		resizable: false,
		width: 462,
		height: 373,
		open: function() {
    		$(this).dialog("widget").find(".ui-dialog-titlebar").hide();
		}
    };
    var n = 1;
    $(".popup").each(function(i) {
        var dlg = $('#popup-' + n).dialog(options);
        $('.opener-' + n).click(function() {
            dlg.dialog("open");
            return false;
        });
        $('#closer-' + n).click(function() {
            dlg.dialog("close");
            return false;
        });
        n++;
    });
});

What I changed:

• In the options I added a function on open to remove the title bar.
• I used the a class on the dialog div instead of the opener link to run the each loop, because there would be multiple opener links for each dialog.
• I added a close function on a closer button.

With the use of some physics, I was able to get the frosting to follow a trajectory based on the angle of the mouse click in relation to the position of the pastry bag. The player gains points by frosting the cupcake on the correct side (top).

Read about how I converted the game to an Android app or download the app file itself.

My idea for this project was to build a human form out of a landscape. Using an image of a swimmer doing the butterfly stroke, I composited sections of a mountainous Middle-Eastern desert image to form the muscles of a human back. For the backdrop I used a photo of the Mojave Desert, and the head was created from an image of a desert butte.