isaachorton.liquidratio.com

some new songs im working on

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:57:02 -0800

my favorite pics from burning man 2006

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:51:09 -0800

Web Design - Destroy Entertainment Propaganda Theater

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:45:49 -0800

This is the culmination of a small project for Destroy Entertainment, Warner Music Group and Rhino Entertainment.

fun at the beach with Ea

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:22:37 -0800

I love it when my pup is happy!

dynamic publishing MT with PHP displaying grammatically correct comment count

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:02:36 -0800

I noticed it was difficult to get a grammatically correct display out of the comment count in MT. Especially for us folks who prefer to use dynamic publishing. :) For instance by default, the comment display will say "0 comments, 1 comments, 2 comments" which obviously is incorrect grammar. So what did I do about it? Basically, I wrote this super simple little php snippet which can be used by anyone in their MT installation to solve just this problem. This is especially pertinent to anyone using the dynamic publishing feature of MT, like me!

This will correctly display the comment count with a pluralized "comments" only when there is 2 or more comments, or more specifically - when there is only "1" comment, display nothing, and otherwise insert an "s" (after the word "comment").

I initially chose to use the MTIfNonZero tag to turn off the comment count if the number was zero. Now I realize that I could have done the whole thing in php but hey it works, so why mess with it...

So whats happening here is that the MTIfNonZero tag checks the comment count and displays the rest if the count is 0. The MTEntryCommentCount is then called and next is the word "comment". The php script is inserted immediately following to avoid any extra spaces and then checks to see if the count is "1" = display nothing, "else" = display "s". Make sense? Good.

unique author comment style using dynamic publishing MT3.2

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:50:56 -0800

After trying a slew of different MT plugins with no success, I was still looking for a solution to making my author comments stand out with a unique css style as compared to other comments. the main problem as I was able to ascertain: many of the MT plugins especially older ones dont work with dynamic publishing enabled in Movable type. I tried everything available but nothing worked with my current setup. Now this is a pretty easy thing to do in theory. Simple conditional "if" statement. So lets do it in PHP instead of fuddlin around with MT plugins.

tag('MTCommentEmail');
if ($commentEmail=="youremail@yourdomain.com")
echo ""; 
else
echo "";
?>

i love easy solutions. Simple is good!

my choice of plugins used with Movable Type 3.2

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 06:15:45 -0800

Out of the plugins ive experimented with, these are the ones used on this blog..

list all entries in same category as current entry using php

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:37:23 -0800

problem: I need to display a listing of entry titles of the primary category assigned to an entry on the individual archive pages in Movable Type 3.2 installation with dynamic publishing of archive pages.

solution: Since the manual does not cover this specific parameter of the installation(ie using dynamic publishing), I thought this would be useful for others. this is the code currently working on this blog(http://isaachorton.liquidratio.com/) and requires just these few easy steps to get up and running.

shambhala illustration

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:07:37 -0800

This began as a commission piece but it ended up being something i really got into. I think i stayed up for like 3 nights straight just drinking coffee and doing the nitty gritty little details in this illustration.

overLIB

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:34:56 -0800

overLIB - Homepage

overLIB is a JavaScript library created to enhance websites with small popup information boxes (like tooltips) to help visitors around your website. It can be used to provide the user with information about what will happen when they click on a link as well as navigational help (see the examples below). Not to mention that it looks cool, is stable, and has an active developer community to boot!

What overLIB looks like
Haven't seen overLIB in action? Take a look at these small examples. A plain popup, or perhaps one with a caption. You can also make them stick when you click, plus, you can place any you wish in them. There is lots more you can do like placing them on the other side of the mouse, snapping to a grid, fixating the position (you might need to scroll up to see it), having background images and lots lots more. Just take a look at all the features.

Stuck Inside of IE with the Browser Blues Again

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:17:04 -0800

from my friend Tony Bove's get off microsoft blog.....
check it out... and his book is good. I recommend it if you want to look into other alternatives to microsoft especially for business..

Get Off Microsoft

Stuck Inside of IE with the Browser Blues Again
January 25th, 2006

Microsoft is moving into Macromedia and Adobe territory with a set of new products aimed at web designers and illustrators. Preview versions of Microsoft's Expression Interactive Designer (for web application development) and Expression Graphic Designer (for creating web graphics) are available for download.

drupal theme customization documentation project

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:01:26 -0800

Just thought id put it out there, im about to start a project to fully customize a simple theme for drupal(aka ultraMINIML) and fully document the process with all the little steps along the way including snippets of code useful to other theme developers as well as screenshots and explanations of each step taken. I think this will be useful for all the future themers in the drupal community as well as insightful for function/ui suggestions/enhancements for upcoming releases. I also think this will be an interesting test of the ability for drupal to compete against other blogging tools currently popular(aka moveable type, wordpress). I think drupal has a great codebase and can really improved upon if the "right" effort goes into customizing the user experience to provide an intuitive process..

I will update this post on a daily basis with screenshots of each days progress. It will be interesting to see how long it takes and just what hurdles i run up against. Stay tuned!

behaviour - unobtrusive js=clean markup

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:44:38 -0800

Behaviour is the missing link for your ajax apps. : Background

AJAX (asynchronous javascript and xml) has been getting a lot of press lately. It is seen as a way to add desktop-application functionality to html pages. Things like Drag and drop, Fluid animations and Dynamic page updates.

6way connector - dymaxion2 design

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:28:08 -0800

Click image for an enlarged view.

This is a detail of the primary dymaxion2 connector.

Teahupoo

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:42:06 -0800