Archive for the ‘Online Resources’ Category

Awesome Videogame Wallpapers

Monday, May 11th, 2009

This guy on DeviantArt has (apparently) painted high-quality scenes from some of the greatest SNES-era video games as desktop wallpapers. Mario, Sonic, Metroid, Legend of Zelda, Megaman, etc. are all represented.

HexML, More Official

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

My previous post on HexML was kind of hard to follow, but I've documented it for another devteam I'll be working with, and here it is, with pretty colors.

Ideas:

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Hey Chris and Jay (primarily). I have a few ideas I want to whip together to make a customized DnD play site for myself. It would feature DM tools, links to online tools, ways to easily "tag" information online, to copy into another web page, a custom wiki and database ...

Hot weather on the way…

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

With summer soon approaching, make sure you know how to beat the heat.

I really wish I didn’t think this guy was nearly completely right.

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Hey everyone, in particular Chris -- I found this cool list of 50 Reasons Why More People Aren't Using Your Website. It's really kind of interesting, and more or less depressing. For Chris -- let's remember this while we work on the Daydream Engine/Collective. And let's see if we can ...

Image Panning How-To

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Here's a better implementation of the image-panning I pointed out the other day. You'll need to know the dimensions of the images ahead of time, which is not a problem for me because the images will be coming through a resizing cache* anyway. Image Panning Demo

Image Inspector

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

This is a website I go to sometimes to look for cheap stuff; Recently, they've updated their image-zooming code to pan dynamically on the existing thumbnail while showing a subsection of the large image in a floating panel, and it's pretty awesome.  I don't have a need for this right ...

Links for Adobe AIR?

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Does anyone have a good, technical article or three about Adobe's newly-released AIR platform?  It hit 1.0 today.  The best I've got so far is a gloss-over from  ArsTechnica.  I still have some questions about how it fits in with Flash, or if it's an entirely different beast.

Internet at home again!

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Well, by no means did last night make up for the barrage of shit that I've been under recently, but last night, I sat down, and fixed the internet. The entire thing, and in addition, I found a way to reduce the signal interference from my wireless speakers. Unfortunately, the ...

bestwebgallery.com

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

One of the other web instructors at New Horizons was showing me some of the sites she likes, and I thought one of them was exceptional: www.bestwebgallery.com It's a gallery of the best sites on the web, gathered in one place for those looking for inspiration. They accept submission applications too, ...