Matt Reimer's Blog Posts
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Dummy Images
January 4, 2012 CommentsWhen we're building wireframes for clients very often use dummy content like lorem ipsum text and placeholder images to show the client what the content might look like.
We came across http://dummyimage.com/ which allows you to create images of an appropriate size programatically. There are loads of these services around (including several that use pictures of kittens) but dummyimage.com had a php-only approach with multiple file-types and a clean, simple look that complemented our wireframes:
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Getting control of YouTube via Javascript
October 7, 2011 CommentsRecently I was trying to write a WordPress slideshow plugin that would include YouTube videos. The challenge was that when I play the video I want to pause the slide. On regular picture slides I just needed to add a
click()event listener to the slide object and attach a call to pause jQueryCycle. YouTube, though, refused to take theclick()listener seriously. The solution came to me by reading up on the Youtube player api. -
Why We Love EZP Hosting
July 26, 2011 CommentsAs a web studio we spend a lot of time talking about what it takes to build a site but it's just as important to have a place to put it. We’ve tried a lot of different hosts over the years and it’s such a refreshing change to have a great one that I felt like shouting (alright, quietly typing) it to the world. That host for us is EZP.
When choosing a host, you might Google “Top 10 web hosts” and pick out the cheapest and highest-rated but it’s not exactly cut and dry. We’ve had issues in the past with hosts charging hidden fees for easily-enabled features and we realize now that a good rating on a host doesn’t mean anything coming from a reviewer who has never needed any support.