Archive for February 2009

Beer Near Here Desktop Part 2: Planning the App

As anyone who’s spent some time writing software knows: planning is paramount.  Mapping out all the features of an app and how they fit together just makes life so much easier.  Since Beer Near Here is a personal project I also factored in my own goals that don’t necessarily have anything to do with how [...]

Beer Near Here Desktop

One of the coolest aspects of Beer Near Here, in my humble opinion, is the desktop version.  Beer Near Here is primarily a website about information, specifically, displaying information in a legible manner.  That sort of site doesn’t mesh well with a cool, out-there design or lots of Flash or Javascript effects, which is why [...]

Find Beer, Near Here

Beer Near Here is finally done!  I’ve been working on this site and AIR application for a while now and I have to say it feels good to have it done and out there. So check it out at beernearhere.net or read a bit about it here.

Go Cougs!

The hardest part about being a Coug fan this season is knowing that they can play like this.

This Is Why You’re Fat

Peruse piles of deliciously gross and greasy food with, This Is Why You’re Fat, a blog “where dreams become heart attacks”. After taking a look I have one question, how do you even eat some of that?  Follow up: Why?

A Flex Shake Effect

When I first got my MacBook Pro one of the first things I did was…type my password incorrectly. When this happens Mac OS provides some great visual feeback with a shaking effect that simultaneously indicates something went wrong and shrugs off the password much like how dogs dry themselves off after a swim.  To me, [...]