At work we just went live with a project for Earth Hour, which began it’s life in Sydney as a 1 hour event where everyone turns their lights off – including big business. Well, this year, it’s going global. Spread the word!
For those interested in the technology, we used RoR and Radiant.
Posted in Postacrds
OK, so I’ve been a little slack of late (try the last 6 months!!) posting anything not related to my personal life… and indeed it’s something i’ll try and remedy, but in the mean time, here’s a link to some photos of my big day (can you believe it’s nearly 6 weeks ago?!). This is by no means a complete set of photos, and if anyone out there has more and would like to share them with me, please drop me a line.
October 6, 2007. Daniel & Ailin’s Wedding Day
Footnote, For those interested in the technology, I’ve used the awesomely simple Simple Viewer to handle the preview – I would have made my own, but time is a premium at the moment. If you plan on using it yourself, the only thing to remember is to not have too many photos in the one gallery. At least in the free version it will try and load them all up into memory.
That is all.
Posted in Postacrds
Just a short note (while I give my brain a break from the AS3 learning), to mention that the Redant site (where I work) has been updated.
For those interested, we moved to Radiant, a neat Ruby CMS. It was a relatively painless process – although Ben and Toby may have more of an opinion on that one. But I think the site looks gret now, and hopefully we’ll be able to live with it for while.
Posted in Design
Announcing the (playstation-style underwhelming) launch of labs.shiftperception.com/ (NOTE: there is currently no way of accessing the content in this directory, but there will be soon). I wanted a place for unfinished experiments to live on my server, and all / the / cool / guys / seem / to / have / one, so I decided, to make myself cooler (than I already am), I needed to get in on the action.
So as I get new things to show off, i’ll be adding them to the lab. Come back and check soon!
Posted in Development
So, I’m a little slow in upgrading my WordPress build – primarily because I still use a great little plugin called Exhibit, which was created by Owen Winkler what seems like a thousand years ago. Now there may be many better options out there that I haven’t explored, but I like Exhibit because it’s a simple, no-nonsense image plugin. Also, heaps of my previous posts use it, so to maintain reverse compatibility I had a little hack today and have worked out how to get it and WordPress 2.1 enjoying each other’s company!! Yay 
Since 1.5, getting it to work has been a big hassle, and consequently im still running 1.5.2… but not for long. Hopefully by next weekend I will have had enough spare time to back up the current data and migrate all the goodness over to the spiffy new build of WP. And a new theme may follow… i’ll keep you posted. Until then, revel in my web 1.5.2 ness.
EDIT : You can now download my hacked version of Exhibit for WordPress 2.1 : here – exhibit_for_wp2.1.rar. Happy posting.
Posted in Development
Well, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
Hope everyone has had as much fun as I have over the last few weeks Things are getting back to normal here now, and before all the Mexican adventures become posts you have to search for, I decided to take a few hours and remake the shiftperception.com/ homepage to reflect some of the feeling I got from the trip.
So, enjoy shiftperception.07. I’ll be adding onto it if I get time, and doing more experimentation and cool stuff into the new year (I promise)!
/dan
Posted in Interaction
Yup, a very clever move. The Flash player will no longer be a proprietry closed source plugin, shunned by the developers of the world. Hopefully the donation of the Flash player to Mozilla will herald a new age of interative development, and better and more standards compliant integration of Flash content with HTML, AJAX and the browser.
Read about it at these places:
Posted in Development, Interaction
Well, if this isn’t the coolest (im sure i’ve said that before!!) app to come out of google… Gmail on your mobile!
And I don’t just mean surfing the Gmail website on your mini mobile browser… I mean full blown Java app designed SPECIFICALLY for your thumb Seriously, it is fantastic, and will change the way you recieve email (at least it has changed me!!) and it looks super cool on my Nokia 6280, which is also a plus 
If you want it, point your mobile to : http://gmail.com/app. You know you want to!
Posted in Development
