Apr
19
An engineer’s guide to cats
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Mar
17
In an amazing move by Microsoft, last week they capitulated to the public uproar from the web developer community and announced that they would release Internet Explorer 8.0, now in beta, set to render web pages in “standards mode,” which means that it should now work with web pages developed to the international standard. Previously, [...]
Dec
18
Shameless plug
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Okay, so I’m getting a small discount for plugging this site, but it’s small enough (5%) to influence me to place this link, but not to lie about the company. We’ve been looking to upgrade our memory in our Mac Pros from 4 to 8 GB. It sounds crazy, but we both are [...]
Dec
8
I’ve just finished a very frustrating two days trying to figure out why this site, and another one I’m developing will not display correctly on Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or 7. My partner is sick to death of my rantings (and his own) about this subject, but as two developers who are constantly having [...]
Nov
5
High Dynamic Range Redwoods
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Lately I’ve been experimeting with High Dynamic Range images. Traditional photography has a dynamic range problem: in a setting with a lot of bright areas and also a lot of shadowed areas, it’s impossible to set the exposure so that detail is captured in both. There are new cameras being developed that [...]