Archive for October, 2008
A Great List of Brand Guidelines for Many Large Corporations
I came across a great list of brand guidelines documents developed by some very large corporations. These guidelines outline how to use the corporate identity and supporting elements in the correct manner. Most designers will be familiar with these types of documents. Either from developing these documents for identities they have created or for using [...]
Stemkoski.com is now iPhone Friendly Thanks to WPTouch, Enjoy!
Shawn and I went and got iPhones as soon as the 3G version came out. Anyone that spends a significant amount of around either of us knows how much we enjoy our iPhones. The iPhone is a very powerful tool and it has proved to be extremely helpful in organizing my day to day life. [...]
How to Create a Simple RSS Feed using PHP and MySQL
Generating a RSS feed with PHP is actually very easy. I have had to do it a few different times and every time I do it I have to look up the syntax of the XML document. To save myself time in the future I thought I would document the process here for myself and [...]
Multiple Column Text Search of MySQL Database Using PHP
I have done this a few times but I can never quite remember how it works. Thanks to some assistance from Sheldon I was able to put together this simple tutorial on how to create a PHP search that will automatically search multiple MySQL columns, score the results, and return the results ordered by relevance. [...]
Fall in Spokane – The Finch Arboretum is Cold in the Morning
So Sunday morning I had the bright idea to visit the Finch Arboretum off Sunset Highway in Spokane. Kayla and I attend Life Center on Sundays so a quick stop at the Finch Arboretum in the morning before it got busy seemed like a great idea to me. Luckily we brought jackets. It was a [...]
Fall in Spokane – A Tale of Two Parks. Cannon Hill Park & Manito Park.
Yesterday turned out to be a stunning fall day. I spent the first 8 hours of the day laboring away on VoiceTales but luckily my friend Stephanie needed my spare oven. Glad to get rid of it, although, that meant I had to go into town to help her move it from my rental to [...]
How to Format Raw Byte File Size into a Humanly Readable Value Using PHP
Nothing like spending a beautiful Fall Saturday morning programming, that is the story of my life. I am finally getting close to completing VoiceTales. One of the last steps in the project to create a simple function that shows a humanly readable file size value for each recording a customer makes. I looked around and [...]
Ryan Stemkoski View on Google Maps
So Sheldon was looking up some of his favorite places to hang out when he was in America visiting. When passing by the Hills his favorite bar and the home of Mike the Extreme Bartender, he came across a street view of me walking into work. I don’t remember being photographed but it looks like [...]
Carving Pumpkins 2008
It is getting close to Halloween and we decided to take some time off today. My friend Stephanie, her husband Ryan, and her son Boston all came over to hang out with Kayla and I and we carved pumpkins. Halloween is just over a week away. I personally am not a huge fan of Halloween [...]
A Great List of CSS Gallery Sites
I was reading up on various CSS techniques this morning when I came across a list of 25 CSS Galleries. I really like to browse these CSS galleries looking for ideas and cool trends that I can apply to new projects. Often these websites have some great looking designs, very cool CSS, or innovative JavaScript [...]