Archive for April, 2009

Allegra’s Studio: Wedding photographs

April 23rd, 2009

I’m trying to learn how to take good wedding photographs, since an engaged couple (friends of mine) asked me to take the pictures for their upcoming wedding. In looking around the web, I’ve found a few photographers who take nice, clean, but emotive pictures. Allegra’s Studio has a beautiful gallery of wedding photographs, where the subjects are glowing, the pictures are crisp, but the picture invites you in.

It’s a lot of fun looking around at how others take pictures. Who knows. I might just make this a new hobby :)

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Time-lapse photography: The wolf loves pork — 1300 photographs telling a story…

April 22nd, 2009

In 3 minutes and 55 seconds, Takeuchi Taijin tells a funny tale of a wolf and a pig. The photographs weave around the apartment, room by room, up and down walls, over the floor, using the kitchen as a pool, the wall as an elevator, and making amazing use of 3D space to engage the viewer. What a fun show. Enjoy!

“A Wolf Loves Pork”

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Flying Lizards win at Long Beach!

April 19th, 2009

Another first place finish for the Flying Lizards #45 911 GT3 RSR! Great show. The #44 did an amazing job pulling up from the pack finishing 5th.

Congratulations! Keep up the great work! The cars, drivers, and teams are all doing a fantasitc job. With the addition of Corvette and Jaguar to the GT2 category, plus a few more 911-based teams in 2010, the competition will get even more fierce. Should be even more exciting to watch.

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Custom Dress Shirts from ShirtsMyWay.com

April 19th, 2009

Unfortunately, I haven’t yet seen any shirts from ShirtsMyWay.com, but the flexibility and myriad options (7 trillion, they say) is truly impressive. They’re running a 3-for-2 special through 4/22, so I think I might give them a go. Most of their shirts are in the $65-$75 range.

Brooks Brothers charges much more for a similar service, so I’m excited by the possibility that this site provides similar features at a much smaller price tag. More info to follow…

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Google’s appengine supports Java now!

April 11th, 2009

Google just rolled out Java support for their AppEngine, which previously only supported Python. This is great news since it opens the whole AppEngine to Java programmers (or at least those of us who know Java better than Python;). They say it’s an early release, but it’s a step in the right direction!

I’ve downloaded the Eclipse plugin, installed it, and generated both an GWT and plain JSP for my site. Creation was easy, uploading was a snap, and running it worked well. There are only two complaints/notes:

1. Installation of the Eclipse plugin froze the Eclipse app twice. I killed the Eclipse process and re-tried the installation. It worked the third time. No problems since.

2. Versioning is weak. I tried to upload a new app and label it version 1.1, but the upload failed. It only worked when I provided an integer value. Seems silly that versions have to be integers. Oh well…

Otherwise, works great. I look forward to learning the new features.

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Posted in Programming, Software, Tools, Website

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