March 26, 2013 in Learn
Dynamic jQuery Image Avatar Cropping Effect
I can still remember the old digg.com user profiles with dynamic avatar cropping via JavaScript. Their user interface was clean, easy to use, displayed a sample before you cropped, and would auto-update as you changed the selection box. I have…
October 25, 2012 in Learn
The Missing Widget in the Android SDK: SmartImageView
Displaying an image from the web in an Android app is unnecessarily hard to do the right way. You need to download it byte by byte from the Internet, store it in a Bitmap object, and then set this Bitmap…
June 6, 2011 in Learn
A little reminder from my Great Grandfather
I was researching my family tree and I found my great-grandfather’s World War I draft card. He was drafted when he was 33 years old, which is how old I am. If it was 1918 instead of 2011, I would’ve…
February 23, 2011 in Learn
Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Tree of Codes
Jonathan Safran Foer’s book, Tree of Codes, pushes the limits of what a book can be. I love the sheer audacity of it. He constructed it by taking his favorite book, The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, and cutting…
February 2, 2011 in Learn
The Mobile Studio
Love Frank Chimero’s Mobile Studio. He carries all these items in his bag every day. Always ready to create, not matter where he is. Sweet.