In my never-ending quest to find the perfect streaming server for my home theater, I’ve come across many programs. I’m currently more than satisfied using the clean, lightweight Medialink for all of my audio and video, but have been investigating a few other solutions that transcode video on the fly (namely for HD MKV files) and that search led me to PS3 Media Server for Mac.
Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Working with MySQL Databases in MAMP
Here’s the second video in a series focusing on using your Mac as a development server to test your pages locally.
Creating a Mac Server with MAMP
Stay tuned for the second post in this series where I delve into the practical application of creating a MySQL database using PHPMyAdmin and linking it the Wordpress content management system.
Cadence
It’s been a few months in the making, but it’s finally arrived and it’s better than I ever could’ve imagined. I’m dubbing this v1.0 iteration of the site “Cadence”. There are a couple cool, dynamic things happening on the site right now thanks to a few Wordpress plugins and some of my own ingenuity:
- I have a variety of dynamic sidebars throughout the site that change depending on where you are
- Instant Twitter updates thanks to the brilliant Alex King
- A nifty Sideblog powered by Delicious
- Flickr integration, also in the sidebar
- AJAX-ified contact form
Not too shabby for a 1.0 release of the site. The portfolio isn’t up yet, but it’ll take me a while to get nice sampling of work together anyhow, so no worries there.
I didn’t want to go too crazy and overwhelm myself with needless code in this release, so in coming versions of the site you can look forward to the following:
- sIFR plugin for fancy headings (update: 01/09/09 – Currently using the @font-face attribute of CSS3 to handle this for all modern browsers)
- jQuery for slicker sidebar showing/hiding
- Embedded audio/video players
That’s all I have to say for the time being. Now that this thing is finally up I can jam pack it full of as much content as possible. Small sidenote: I haven’t tested it, but this site will undoubtedly look awful in IE6 (but I don’t care).
10 Great Ways to Annoy Your Visitors
It seems near-impossible, in this day and age of Web 2.0, that some designers still don’t fully grasp the most basic forms of usability; ways to make a website work for the visitor rather than against them. Here are 10 great ways that you too can completely disregard and frustrate your visitor. (more…)
