Author Archives: Chris

Google Web Fonts with Hawaiian Diacritics

Google Web Fonts is a pretty awesome service, considering it’s a free alternative to the larger font collections of TypeKit (also an awesome service). Embedded web fonts are great, but the Hawaii web design has a dilemma. A lot of … Continue reading

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A day without email

I flubbed my DNS records on Friday, thinking that I was getting ready to move my work site from Dreamhost to MediaTemple (since I’ve been having email delivery problems on Dreamhost; too many spammers on their shared servers). So I … Continue reading

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.htaccess forcing larger file uploads

So this is something that I should have memorized by now, but always find myself searching Google whenever I need it. MediaTemple’s Grid Servers have a built in 2mb limit on file uploads, which is small when you’re trying to … Continue reading

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Vivitar 285 Mod

I’m really liking this Vivitar 285 flash mod, and trying to figure out if there’s a way I can cobble together parts from the two slightly broken ones I have and make something this cool. (Edit: Also found this Vivitar … Continue reading

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Neglect

Poor blog, I prmomise I’ll start updating you more often!

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.htaccess forcing www in urls

I’m starting to use this site as a resource for myself, because I use this stuff all the time, but not enough to commit it fully to memory. That said, something that’s come up a lot recently is forcing www. … Continue reading

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ZeppOS Developer Resource

Rob has a nice designers resource page on his web site. Hopefully the ZeppOS Wiki will gain some momentum and become the main destination for documentation. I was working on a Flash slideshow for an Aloha Media Group project, and … Continue reading

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Hafa Adai!

Just got back from Guam on Sunday. I still think it’s funny that we left Guam on Monday morning, and arrived in Honolulu on Sunday afternoon. Hurrah for time travel! Guam was nice. Very tropical, and if it wasn’t for … Continue reading

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Back from Lake Tahoe

I’m just coming off of almost two weeks up in Lake Tahoe. Nohea and I were up there with Jim timing the Lake Tahoe Marathon and the XTERRA USA Championship races. We had a blast getting to trip around the … Continue reading

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Flash Slideshows in ZeppOS

So I find myself spending a lot of time trying to debug issues with Javascript and Flash when building sites out in ZeppOS. I’m posting this in the hopes that other people might find this useful! Basically, I use the … Continue reading

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