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FTOB: Open Source Flash on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 10/3/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com I haven’t written for a while but there’s no time for apologizing. I decided (after years of swearing I never would) its time to learn flash. I’m doing this totally open source, so I’m going to post all the steps it takes to get up and running in sequence, [...]

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FTOB: New British Coin Designs

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 4/5/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com My girlfriend and I are house sitting this week while our friends are in Hawaii. They have four cats and a dog, good wine, and a lot of food in the fridge. I’ve been going on lots of walks, entertaining friends, and cooking, but precious little javascript. I do [...]

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FTOB: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 3/29/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/ I always feel a mixture of excitement and dread when I start a new technical book. I’m about to dive into the intimidatingly thick JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan. Javascript guru Douglas Crockford mentioned in his wonderful series of lectures that it was the best (or did [...]

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FTOB: Blogging in the heat of the moment

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 3/27/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/ This was originally a reply to liverbones’ comment of my last post, but it became long so I gave it a home of its own. Just about every day I run across some design or technical problem that I can only solve through blogs or message boards. Its an [...]

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FTOB: MillhollandCycles.com

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 3/26/2008 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/ This is a progress report on MilhollandCycles.com, website I am building for my brother Greg, who builds bicycles in our house in Portland. His bikes are great. He built me the coolest fillet braised mountain bike that languishes in the basement while I try to save enough cash to [...]

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From The Old Blog: What this is all about

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 3/26/2008 on http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/ This is my first attempt at a blog.  I plan on being faithful to it. The point of this blog is to write about my journey from aspiring web designer to the real thing.  By “real thing” I mean making my living designing and developing websites.  I’ve been working [...]

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Blogging is the first thing to go

By admin | April 25 2009

You know when you get real busy and you just have to cut some corners?  Well, there you go. The next few posts will be reposts from my blog that I started at: http://likesalmon.wordpress.org/ They will be denoted with the leader: From The Old Blog or FTOB. Going forward, I plan to use this blog [...]

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Too good

By admin | November 14 2008

This was posted two days ago on Subtraction. Just about everything on Subtraction is worth checking out, but I found this particularly apt right now: Give up and use tables

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The plan

By admin | November 14 2008

I’ve developed 3 WordPress sites at this point, and every time I’ve used the Kubrick theme as a basis for my custom theme.  Kubrick bugs me because it uses a lot of non-semantic id and class names, but the layout of the php is good and it has all the functionality I need built in, [...]

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That new blog smell

By admin | November 14 2008

I once met a very gregarious kid on a plane ride to Denver who saw me working on my laptop and asked what I was doing.  Next thing I know, I’m giving him a comprehensive tutorial on web design and by the time we landed I had helped him code his very first website in [...]

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