05 Oct 09

MooTools is on version 1.2.3 (after completely dropping 1.1.1 as the default about a year ago), and version 2.0 is expected before years' end. Joomla however, still is including 1.1.1 because of compatibility issues with various plugins. People have been asking how to safely replace the version of MooTools included. Since I've done this several times, I figured I'd share my method here.

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16 Sep 09

Winter is coming soon, and that means snow at Mammoth, and that means skiing!

Continuing on the idea of font replacement, I've been experimenting a bit with using @font-face in CSS. Last week I quickly built a site for interior designers Alexandra and Michael Misczynski. I decided to use @font-face to provide an .otf font to those visitors with new browsers that can display it. I'm really trying to work the the idea of displaying an enhanced experience for newer browsers, instead of the previous thought of making the site look identical on as many browsers as possible.

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01 Sep 09

I had just given up on using custom fonts for my client's website. I was adding some new features which meant implementing a drop-down menu system when much to my chagrin, I found out that the font-replacement methods I was employing would no longer work. Of course my client would be upset because the fonts being used (ones most people don't have installed) were specific to their brand, and images were out of the question. (What's the point of a content management system if you have to resave the content as images?) I had already delivered the bad news to my team and was getting ready to notify the client...

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23 Apr 09

In December '08, my employer KAA Design Group held an art show to showcase the work of its staff, family, and friends. My contribution was an interactive digital installation titled Dynamic Mondrian

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13 Aug 07

This script replaces the built-in light lister with one that incorporates support for VRay Lights and VRay Suns.

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13 Jun 07

AMFPHP is a library to expose object-oriented PHP methods and functions to Flash through a binary data stream similar to XML-RPC.

J-AMFPHP adds this functionality to Joomla and exposes the Joomla API to Flash developers.

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