whathuh studios rant

Chicago Sports Fans!

admin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:41:28 +0000

If you’re having a hard time getting tickets for the Cubs, the Sox, The Bulls, or pretty much any other Chicago sporting event, I found a site that can help you out. http://www.chicagosbesttickets.com/ was just launched this year, and isn’t charging you $500 for a ticket that’s only worth $30. Chances are, they have what [...]

Not my typical subject….

admin — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:46:17 +0000

But this is just too good to pass up. “The Roller Blog” is having an 80’s photo contest. There is a grand prize of 1500 Entrecard credits for the best “1980’s” photo you can submit. Here’s a good example to the right here of what they are looking for. Crappy “laser beams”, horrible haircuts, blank expressions [...]

My site does not validate

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:48:12 +0000

But hey, guess what? My site looks the same in Opera 9.5, Opera 9.2, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, IE6,7,8, Safari 3.x, and Konquerer.

Flash is open source… nothing has changed.

admin — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:45:00 +0000

Simply put: Flash will not replace well-designed web sites based on html/css. To elaborate: My honest opinion is that the argument of Flash taking over the standard web page is moot. There are practical, well executed uses of flash, and there are practical, well executed uses of any of the other technologies mentioned. However, it seems that there are ...

Simplified PHP $_POST data handling

admin — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:41:52 +0000

When posting data from a form to a page, the $_POST variable gets set to an array similar to this: Array ([name] => "daniel", [state] => "illinois", [phone] => "630-618-9588") Now, one way to process this is to know in advance (which, normally you will), what the values will be, and set them to more usable variables. [...]

Blackberry Flip Phone!

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:49:22 +0000

Research in Motion has finally decided to make the step into the mainstream with their first ever flip phone! Codenamed the “Kickstart”, it is expected to be released before the end of 2008. It has everything you would expect from a next-gen flip phone: Included camera, bluetooth, bright colorful display and external display. Navigation will [...]

header, section, article, footer and html5

admin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:56:47 +0000

HTML5 introduces new tags that make a lot of sense. No longer will each divison of a page need to be speculated as to its purpose; the new tag names have it built right in. I’m going to take a look at what these two tags mean, and how to implement them. Note: This article [...]

Put Ads on Top of Your Ads - Adbrite Ad Network

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:39:54 +0000

I’ve used many different ad networks, and even if you have a favorite… you should get on the Adbrite bandwagon. If you’re making.. say… 10 bucks a day with Google Ads, awesome! You should still use Adbrite. It’s genius. You tell Adbrite how much you’re making, you plug in the code from your favorite ad network, [...]

Dealing with timestamps in WordPress is so fucking fucked.

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:57:04 +0000

While modifying a plugin to work correctly in WP 2.5, I came across this code snippet. I haven’t had to deal with it myself, but maybe someone else will find it useful, or hilarious as I did. Here’s the code to make timestamps WordPress friendly (apprently): // Dealing with timestamps in WordPress is so fucking fucked. $offset = [...]

Hey, get your HTML5 off my canvas

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:29:25 +0000

With my recent kick on finding out everything I possibly can about html5, this is one part of it that has been implemented in a few of the more popular browsers, and actually has some use. By definition: The tag defines graphic, such as graphs or other images. The tag is new in HTML 5