Topic archive for
September, 2009
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
To begin, I was looking for something more stylized for my date system in wordpress. I thought it would be nice to have it in a block but I didn’t want to cheat and simply make an image. So I came up with a nice solution.
To begin, I needed to decide [...]
By: Christopher Heiss in CSS, Design, Web Development
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Halloween is just around the corner and it’s time to get into the spirit. This imagery was made to be an ominous skull cloud.
By: Mark Rivera in Design, photo manipulation
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
This quick and easy tutorial will show you how to blend in a smiling face on a cow.

in Design, Manipulation, Photoshop
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Oracle reported Fiscal Q12010 results yesterday. Why should open source vendors care? Well, there’s obviously a concern when the vendor you’re hoping will buy you has a bad quarter. Ok, ok, all joking aside, the reason open source vendors, and specifically middleware vendors should care is apparent when looking at Oracle’s Application versus Database and [...]
By: Savio Rodrigues in Database, Open Source, Oracle, Programming, Wordpress
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I started writing up my experience of CFUnited 2009 but it turned into a giant essay as I was going into a lot more detail than I’m sure anyone would really care about. So here’s the condensed version:
CFunited 2009 was awesome!
By: Sean Corfield in ColdFusion, iPhone, Programming
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Whether you are deploying applications or services in the cloud or on-premise, you can still leverage the cloud to build better software. Two areas where the cloud gives you huge advantages over on-premise computing are prototyping and testing. Let’s explore.
By: Mike Kavis in Database, MySQL, Web Development
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
With more than 180 million recognized blogs and countless more not on Technorati’s list, it’s clear that blogging continues to enjoy huge popularity, despite claims to the contrary.
Yet blogging itself isn’t easy – you need to put in love, time, effort, commitment and a whole lot more to really make it work for you. Which is [...]
By: Danny Brown in CSS, Design, Open Source, PHP, SEO, Web Development, Wordpress
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Have you ever found yourself looking for a way to do something specifically with CSS that you haven’t done before?
I build out sites for a lot of different companies and whenever I have to build out a site that I didn’t personally design I always run across something that makes me think twice about a [...]
By: Drew Stauffer in CSS, Design, Rounded Corners, Web Development
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Today I will show you how to create a unique rainbow wallpaper. This is a quick and dirty tutorial.
By: Christopher Heiss in Design, Photoshop, Wallpaper
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Who doesn’t want to be a super hero? Ok, bad pay, bad hours, and hostile working conditions aside everyone wants to be a hero. Or a villain. So, here’s how to at least make yourself look like one.
Step 1 – Find a picture of yourself that will translate well into a heroic pose. I found [...]
in Design, Photoshop, Super Hero