CSS, WordPress

The Legal Issues in Health Reform blog is a forum for information, discussion and debate on the legal issues implicated in health reform, sponsored by Georgetown Law Center’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.

My duties were to setup and customize the look of a simple WordPress based blog that could then be updated and maintained by multiple authors.

CSS, FileMaker, HTML, Photoshop, PHP

The O’Neill Institute is a joint project of the Law Center and School of Nursing and Health Studies and also draws upon the University’s other intellectual resources, including the School of Medicine, the Public Policy Institute, and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.

My duties were to redesign the existing site from the ground up, integrating multiple existing databases and creating an informative hub for public health law information.

Put in the day, month, and year, and this simple script will find the day of the week and output an RSS compliant string for the pubDate field. Just add the time and timezone and you are set!

Building on the earlier example of listing all the files within a directory on a webpage, we can now add some nifty sorting features to make the experience all the better.

Just put both files in a directory with the rest of the files and you’re done! Easy as cakes.

Here is an example of the code in action.

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CSS, Flash, HTML, Photoshop, PHP

This is a freelance project I worked on for two of my friends from high school driving from New York to Oregon, filming their misadventures, and hoping to eventually watch the Track Trials.

The site is a powered by WordPress and is running a highly customized theme.

CSS, Photoshop

A MySpace skin for another musical friend of mine. Very different from the heavy sounds of Silver Cypher. Check out his site and give the rest of your monies to him.

CSS, Photoshop

After completing the website for Silver Cypher, it was time to reskin their MySpace page. Check them out and give them your monies.

Today I am giving away a simple Flash VR file. You will need to create images at the various angles of your subject. Then simply import all of your images into this Flash file, adjust the speed to your tastes, and you will have a simple VR effect for the web or wherever.

Move your mouse to the right and the model will rotate counter-clockwise. Move the mouse to the left and the model will rotate clockwise.

Plan for further development include:

• adding vertical rotation
• smoother rotation
• on the fly updating (no need to have Flash to edit the content)
• a simple GUI

Model taken from 3dtotal.

All the ActionScript is on the first frame. It is as follows:

stop();

// Edit topSpeed to modify how fast the VR can rotate
var topSpeed:Number = 2;
var frameSpeed:Number;
var frame:Number = _root._currentframe;

// Functions, no need to edit these
onEnterFrame = function () {
	frameSpeed = Math.round(topSpeed*(_xmouse-Stage.width/2)/(Stage.width/2));
	newFrame = _root._currentframe+frameSpeed;
	if (newFrame>_root._totalframes) {
		newFrame = newFrame-_root._totalframes;
	} else if (newFrame<=0) {
		newFrame = _root._totalframes+newFrame;
	}
	gotoAndStop(newFrame);
	frame = _root._currentframe;
};

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There have been occasions where I have needed to just dump some files in a hidden directory of a website for internal use or to preview to a client. I don’t want to create a whole preview site for just this instance, and I want to keep directory browsing off for the rest of the site.

ASP offers some simple tools to list all the files in a specific folder and any sub-folders. The following code wasn’t written by me, credit goes to Mike Hall. I did however make some modifications to his original code. He had it set up in such a way as that you needed to manually enter which folders would be listed. I wanted something simpler. Something you could just drop in a folder on your site and it would automatically load and list all the files. I also didn’t want the index file to appear in this list.

Here is an example of the code in action.

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Check out the updated version as well.

ASP, CSS, HTML, Photoshop

Jon Krech, founder and lead singer of the doom metal band Silver Cypher is a good friend of mine. We have worked together (not with music) on designs and web apps for several years now. He’s a great guy and you should check out the site and the music.