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I’m speaking at the Museum Computer Network this year

Posted on June 9, 2016September 2, 2018 by Chris

I received the confirmation from MCN (The Museum Computer Network) conference that they would like me to present this year. So it looks like I have my work cut out for me because I put together a very

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Duplicating a Collection View for the Web

Posted on June 6, 2016September 2, 2018 by Chris

A CollectionView in iOS (and tvOS) is a view that displays a grid of items. This is a pre-built view and is very easy to use in the iOS environment. The problem is that there is no really basic way to

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Nautical Charts as Clocks?

Posted on June 1, 2016September 2, 2018 by Chris

On our recent trip to Annapolis, Maryland we were walking through town when we passed a shop that had the most amazing clocks on display in the window. After walking inside we quickly realized that they

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Blue Angels in Annapolis

Posted on May 31, 2016September 2, 2018 by Chris

Last week was graduation week from the US Naval Academy and on Wednesday the Blue Angels were performing over the campus in Annapolis, Maryland. Because this was only an hour drive away and the Blue Angels

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The film project

Posted on May 30, 2016September 2, 2018 by Chris

Not long ago I started a new project, this one deals with films and has been a great learning experience. I am building this project for the web, iOS and also tvOS so keeping things consistent across

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DC Blizzard

Posted on February 1, 2016September 2, 2018 by Chris

I’m about a week late in posting this but there is still snow on the ground for now so it’s not too late. I shot some time lapse video of our crazy blizzard last Friday night and Saturday morning and I

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Keeping your information secure online

Posted on December 8, 2015September 2, 2018 by Chris

I am in the process of moving my web content to a new hosting service because my previous host was pretty far behind in their security configurations. They still allow MD5 encryption as an option for

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Image fun continues

Posted on September 16, 2015September 2, 2018 by Chris

I\’ve made more progress since initially discovering the fun that can be had when playing with web servers and image requests. I have several nice log files of every site that is linking to my images,

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Web developer strikes again

Posted on September 15, 2015September 2, 2018 by Chris

Yesterday\’s post made me curious, could I possibly do more than just swap images that someone was hot linking to? As it turns out, yes I can. So I am not only swapping the images for those that are

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Another hack web developer…

Posted on September 14, 2015September 2, 2018 by Chris

I received a Google Alert this morning telling me that someone was talking about Sandra\’s website online. Here is a screen capture of the email:

I followed the links and discovered a Pinterest knockoff

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Six Second Graders Eating at Daniel

Posted on August 3, 2015September 2, 2018 by Chris

This video from the New York Times Magazine is absolutely adorable! It features six second graders eating at Daniel in NYC. I was laughing and crying!

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Biscuits and Gravy – Home Made

Posted on March 5, 2015September 2, 2018 by Chris

A few weeks ago I decided that I wanted to have biscuits and gravy for breakfast but I really didn\’t want to try to find it in DC because the restaurants here never seem to get things like this right.

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Ephemeral Films Project

Posted on November 18, 2013September 2, 2018 by Chris

It\’s been a while since I last posted anything but given all of the recent changes going on around here it\’s been a bit tough to find the time.

I have two ongoing personal projects and as of this

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Why mediocre is awesome!

Posted on May 1, 2013September 2, 2018 by Chris

It\’s funny how many times I\’ve tried to create something only to dump it after weeks of work because it wasn\’t good enough and I thought that starting over would be a better option. I\’m sure I\’m

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Email Auto-responders

Posted on April 8, 2013September 2, 2018 by Chris

I finally found a purpose for email auto-responders. It used to be that I would just cringe when someone\’s email sent me an auto-responder and honestly I still do, but there is actually a good use for

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Question for action movie fans…

Posted on February 7, 2013September 2, 2018 by Chris

I was watching Taken 2 last night and something occurred to me during the car chase scene and I want some other opinions on it before I conclude that I am absolutely right. Given the following situation:

1)

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Looking for great headphones

Posted on October 1, 2012September 2, 2018 by Chris

I\’ve been looking for a new pair of headphones and I finally found some really great ones. Until now I was trying to use earbuds but the sound is average if you can get them into your ears correctly and

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Forgotten Domains are Depressing

Posted on August 8, 2012September 2, 2018 by Chris

This may not apply to many of you but for some reason I just ended up looking at a list of expired domains that are up for auction. At first I was thinking, “I may find something really good for super

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Spammers are getting funnier…

Posted on July 19, 2012September 2, 2018 by Chris

I don\’t know how many multi-million dollar lotteries I have won in the past few weeks but it\’s amazing how lucky I\’ve been. I hope many of you have had the same luck, but I suspect that if you have

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Coffee, the hip new drug for kids

Posted on July 9, 2012September 2, 2018 by Chris

I don\’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everywhere we go there are kids chugging a wide variety of coffee drinks and not in kid portions. We were in a Starbucks the first time it really stood

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