Year: 2013
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Hard to get into new music
There’s so much great music out there, but I can’t really find any. Problem is, the times in my life when I really discovered music were when I had a little peer pressure – high school, college, working in an office – and the people around me would play stuff, make me listen to stuff,…
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The good old days of 25¢ video games
Once upon a time I was an arcade junkie. I would dump quarter upon quarter trying to understand the inner workings of the most beautiful machines I knew of, these arcade consoles. But I never had enough money. My cousin Paul dinardo, apparently, did, as he pwned the high-score in tempest (the greatest video game…
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Chubby design
You heard it here first, folks. The next big thing in cutting-edge design is hereby being dubbed “chubby” design. What is chubby? Bursting at the seams Easy/inviting to touch/rub The opposite of all this hyperthin helvetica apple rolled out with ios 7 Get the first unapologetic chubby design today – the chubbies icon font: https://github.com/field2/chubbies
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Easy BBQ Chicken
Ingredients: 1 chicken, cut into 8 pieces, or whatever bone-in chicken you have laying around 1 bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce ———- Start the grill. Dump the bottle of sauce in a pot. Fill the bottle with water, shake it up, pour into the pot. When it’s boiling, add the chicken. Cook for 20-25…
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Intellectual property
So I think our DMA grads could be better suited to pursue IP law than any other program’s grads in the country.
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On WordPress as a career skill
WordPress is quickly becoming an essential skill for people in a wide variety of industries. Therefore, it’s imperative that educational institutions prepare graduates to manage, maintain, develop and design WordPress powered sites, blogs and apps. Soon we’ll see WP listed as a requirement on as many job listings as MS-Office, and students should confidently be…
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Thoughts on WordCamp San Francisco 2013
Have to say this was my best WC yet. First the bad: I left my phone on the beach the first day. Thankfully someone found it and called my hotel, but I spent the whole evening trekking it across SF getting it back. I wanted soo bad to take SouthWestern up on a delay for…
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Posts to facebook and twitter
I’m researching plugins that will auto-post to FB and Twitter accounts. Most plugins force you to create facebook “apps” to do the FB thing, a process that I despise. This one is called “social”, and it apparently doesn’t require an app. I’ll report my findings at the next Buffalo WordPress Users meetup tomorrow evening. If…
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Dirty Shrimp Risotto Recipe
Made this last night, easy and quick, mmm. This is a great way to cook shrimp as it’s hard to overcook them, and they absorb all the flavors of the rice. I call it “Dirty” rice because this batch ended up with a nice grey-brown color, but YMMV… Ingredients: 1 bag frozen, EZ-Peel shrimp, 24-30…
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Need to design a tutorial framework
There is a huge need for something that would make it easy to design tutorials. As I see it, a tutorial is a step by step document leading the viewer toward completion of a goal, whether it be the design of a graphic, a game, some code, or any process realting to graphic and web…
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Making hand drawn fonts with a tablet, Adobe Illustrator and Glyphs Mini
Watch a video explaining my process for making hand drawn fonts with Adobe Illustrator CS6, Glyphs Mini and my bamboo tablet: The finished product: You can download the font here: https://github.com/field2/quickworms
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Designing Dashicons
The dashicons font created for the mp6 plugin has pretty much taken up all of my time the last few weeks. This even with help from Mel Choyce, Joen Asmussen and the rest of the WP design team. There are quite a few resources on how to do this, but most of the ones I’ve…
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WP Icon font
I made a font out of the icons I’m proposing for future versions of WordPress. Here’s how I did it: Designed them in AI CS6. Preferences set like this: Then I created a new font in Fontlab 5, with metrics set like this: I copy/pasted each icon-the shape and the invisible bounding…
