I have a small obsession with fonts. So this is really cool for like, just me.
UX. Evolutions swiped the new Microsoft fonts off of their Longhorn Build and made them available.
Tag: Web Development
I search for this site about once every few months. You can post a gif and the program will tell you what font was used in the image.
Good if you have old logos and want to figure out what you were smoking when chose the font for it.
I got credit on a Ben Forta Blog post. That’s pretty cool. I wish I had been smart enough to link back here. Oh well.
Yes, only the web geeks out there will be impressed by this.
I’ve been ossilating between high on pain meds and in fiery pain when the wear off. To keep my mind busy I wrote a PHP and MySQL based timecode application. As my first full application that uses MySQL and PHP, I have to say I much prefer Cold Fusion and MS SQL. There are a couple things that are just much easier to do in Cold Fusion, namely debugging, performance testing, database management, and session management.
All in all though I’m glad I did it. I’m sure that I didn’t get everything right, and that there was some ineffciency. Check it out:
Citizen Wumpus – Production Tools.
Via Werblog, it’s a dynamic Java application that tracks the popularity of baby names over the last century:
The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager
Very cool.
I’ve added Sifr. I have to say I love it. It’s what drives the non-standard font headers. It uses Javascript, CSS, and Flash to replace text on the fly. It gives the page a more unique look, and it reduces the download profile.
On the con-side, it seems to need the browser to be refreshed to liquidly flow into to place. Other than that, though, I think I like it.
Drop me a line, tell me what you think.
Okay I’ve grown a little to attached to Flash Paper.
I’ve added to my About Me page and added a couple of my resumes.
I just got back from Macromedia MAXX and I learned a whole bunch of cool stuff. I fooled around with a bunch of it, and have added a few extra pieces to the website. I hope to drop a more detailed report on the Conference in the next few day, but for now here’s more on the new pieces of my site. I encorporated two relatively new technologies to a set of pages dedicated to It’s a Wonderful Mensch, a short I made for work about a year ago.
The first technology I used was Flash Paper. This has been out for a little while, and basically competes with Adobe Acrobat. The difference is that like all Macromedia products of late, it generates .swf output. This is readable by anyone who has the Flash plugin, which is practically everyone. The whole thing, content and reader, is combined into one file and is less than 64kb.
The second technology I used was Flash Video. This also seems to compete with existing technology, this time specifically in the web video space. This one is different from Flash Paper, in that you compress a file into Flash Video, then bind a player .swf file to it. The video was compressed to about a 12 MB file, that can be progressively downloaded.
The thing I have to commend about both of these technologies is that they build on the Flash Player framework. This makes it have tremendous reach and cross platform compatibility. I don’t even need the Macromedia marketers to tell me that. The compression is good, and it was also extremely easy to create the .swf files and embed them into my webpages. Another thing about them was the ease of creating them. It took me all of about 5 seconds to create the Flash Paper .swf. (In fact I did it on the plane back from New Orleans) The video took me a little longer, but then that’s video. The swf player interface for it took a few seconds.
Check out these features at:
It’s a Wonderful Mensch
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