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Photoshop Fonts Too Big?
I was struggling with this for a week. My 12px fonts were stuck at a DPI of 300 and I had no way to adjust them. I also had an older copy of Photoshop Elements 6, so my options I thought were limited. I even re-installed Photoshop but that did not succeed, how did I [...]
Thinking Different
I was refreshing some of my terminology over the past week when I came upon a post by Martin Fowler about Dependency Injection. I was reading this and I understood the words, but it really made no sense to me. Then I read another blog post by James Shore. It basically summed up dependency injection [...]
The Perfect Programmer or Remarkable?
What’s a perfect programmer? Someone that writes perfect code, writes perfect test, uses a perfect language or framework or uses the perfect methodology? I think there are plenty of good programmers, people that try to be perfect for their boss, or their peers, or because they might be a perfectionist. I think there are a lot [...]
iPad Screen Size in Safari
I was very surprised when I Googled the screen size for the iPad nothing showed up. I actually had to create a DIV and experiment until I found the correct size. The viewable area in landscape mode is 980×660. You can also adjust the viewport via: <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width” /> which is what is recommended [...]
The Winning Team – The Real Answer
I hate blanket rules with no explanation. Having a winning team before starting a business is one of them. Book after book, or VC after VC will give that same advice without providing a logical underpinning, or reason for the advise. It’s akin to the teacher that says because I said so, rather than actually [...]
Books are not what they use to be.
I’ve struggled to put together a book idea into a coherent logical sequence. Something like: here’s the overall pattern/theme part 1 of pattern part 2 of pattern part 1 connects to part 2 like this but not like that summary of the pattern But I’ve noticed as I am reading (very popular books) that the [...]
Jim Tressel Leaving Ohio State?
I woke up this morning to a RUMOR that Jim was going to leave Ohio State after the 2011 Sugar Bowl. The sources said that it stems from other hidden yet-to-be-released details having to do with the player suspensions indicating a lack of institutional control, something similar to or worse than USC. I like Jim [...]
International Data – iPad & iPhone
Given that AT&T international data rates $uck, I thought I would provide this quick guide to data set-up for traveling internationally to either England or South Africa. All of these are for pay as you go data. England iPhone – Jailbreak required or Wi-Fi Only via Internet sharing on PC or iPad. Did not attempt [...]
Our Trip To London (In December)
We did not think that London would be so dark, but given it’s latitude I should have expected only around 8 hours of daylight per day. This made getting over the jet-lag very tough for us, especially Lilu. She was up most of the nights until 3, until the last night she went to bed [...]
Delta Duty Free at 2AM
We traveled to London from Columbus for an overnight flight. All was fine until around 2AM EST when the Duty Free cart came by. Aside from the loud cart, the noise of yelling “duty free”, it was the hovering around our seats for 20-30 minutes that was really annoying… I was the first to awake, [...]