Tomorrow, we have to present this poster for IAT333 and go up against other teams in another round of harsh student participation critique sessions. This is my largest poster yet, rolling out at 54 inches in length and standing 2 feet high. I also got a try out pantone colors for the first time and let me tell you, they are wonderful to work with. I tried a different approach since I seem to have a reputation as a layout/typography type of person. Figured in one night I would become vector happy and see if Vectora (the font of choice for this project) will hold up. (read more)

We use underscores and dashes to circumvent the no-spaces rule when it comes to URLs. But when it comes to a domain names, everyone prefers to have the individual words combined. However, we should be careful with how you mix and match words. This photo was featured in a Treehugger post and the thing is, I thought the site was RECHARGELT, not RECHARGE IT. After all, base on the post I thought that, rechar-gelt, sound French enough for me. But then I noticed the California license plate and and had second thoughts. It technically also reads RECHARGE-IT, which makes more sense in the state of California. Taking the jump confirmed my suspicions… (read more)

I didn’t realize it would be this easy to build a timer within Arduino. This is not the LED blink code! It’s pretty much based of skyl4rk’s post in this thread. I have a clock running within Arduino and I can configure when to turn the LED on by hour, minutes and even seconds. Eventually we need to somehow connect the Arduino with the user interface to have it control the timer.

As far as the prototype goes, it works for now but it needs to be more robust since the clock is very rudimentary.

Updated July 28, 2008 with the code to share: (read more)

W3C’s notorious markup validation service is hard to please. I finally got the blog template to pass but I had to give up on trying to manipulate Wordpress’ more_text_link setup which when compared with the rest of the WP templating system, just outright sucks. I can’t seperate it from the content or enclose it in a block element.

 Try the W3C Markup Validator if you haven’t. The error reports are some of the most confusing I’ve seen but once you get the hang of it, you will be able to figure out what actually needs to be fix. Also installed Yet-Another-Photoblog (read more)

I finally mounted Fruitattack onto the Wordpress engine. Took quite awhile but I can say that I am now quite comfortable working with Wordpress templates and plugins as well. What I did was took the FA template, widened it and put in the necessary code to make it function like a Wordpress template.