If you haven’t made yourself an Obama icon yet, head on over to www.obamicon.me. I made the one below with the hopes of making this the image that shows up in my 404 handler. It’s not a commentary on our new president Mr.Cool.
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Archive for the ‘web2.0’ Category
Dec
31
2008
The year of my internet wrap up
Now that ‘the year of my internet’ ( a.k.a. 2008 ) is down to it’s last hour, figured I’d dump some thoughts on what went down in the busiest year ever.
- Worked for beatport.com
- Finally put up this website
- Had contract gigs for most of the year
- Rocked a handlebar mustache
- Sold my 2007 Subaru STi limited
- Sold my 5 string Carvin LB75A
- Started a few blogs ( sk8colorado, ericsphone )
- Wrote my first free Adobe AIR application ( ifartair.com )
- Got a 3 foot high mini ramp from a friend of a friend
- Got back in touch with most of my posse from skating, and band days
- Bought a new 15″ Macbook Pro
- Met local Adobe gurus Realeyes Media
- Started playing ice hockey again
- Converted my single webpage into WordPress
- Got an iPhone 3G
- Accepted a new job at wiretree.com
I’m sure there was plenty more, especially being my first full year as a dad. Fletch has grown so much this year that looking through the archives seems like further in the past. I haven’t put a lot of thought into 2009 yet, but I know it’s going to be just as busy.
That’s all for 2008. Peace out!
Dec
19
2008
The ‘Why learn SQL’ list has begun
Today’s new social service is a top5 list making site called www.makefive.com. I haven’t gotten too deep into the site yet, but it looks like a lot of fun. I definitely dig the idea, especially if you can tie this into all your other social outlets.
My first list is a rough sketch of reasons why you should learn SQL. I love SQL, and have been collecting reasons why you should learn it, but just haven’t gotten around to getting my ideas down. I’m hoping this list will be the motivation I need to get my love for SQL out on the internets.
See more: Why you should learn SQL
Nov
13
2008
One more reason why you should use favicon.ico
Nobody seems to talk about favicons these days. People still use them, but it’s rarely a topic of conversation. So we all know favicons show up in your browser’s address bar next to the url. If your website doesn’t have a favicon.ico file, then your browser will use a generic webpage icon.
The favicon also comes into play if you bookmark a webpage. The custom icon will appear in your bookmarks list, or on your desktop if you drag a page there. This is what the favicon is all about.
Tonight it dawned on me that any program that create ‘applications’ out of webpages, also use that favicon file as your desktop icon. In this case I’m using Google’s web browser Chrome to create an ‘application shortcut’. The application shortcut that Chrome creates is essentially a chromeless browser that goes directly to the url you specified. When this shortcut is created on your machine it uses that site’s favicon.ico if one exists.
So there you go. One more reason why you should always have a custom favicon.ico for any webpage you are in charge of.
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- Chrome create app.shortcut
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- Favicons in action
