Playing with WordPress 3.0 rc 1

And my site is having issues, such as loss of images and many of my plugins going down.

Working on the issues now.

ARTH385: Colour and Light in Prismatic Experiments

Another Color Theory website-essay complete. This one really gave me a lot of pressure to complete due to outside commitments. I’m satisfied with the result and I feel the required targets were well met and still (due to prior time-investment)… Read the rest

Parsing XML with PHP and a bit of CSS3

There’s this powerful app called GeekTool that I use to display the date, time, and my external I.P. These are by far the simplest of uses for this app as you can see some hardcore fans Read the rest

ARTH385: Colour and Light in Early Renaissance Paintings

This was an intersting project. The teacher gave us the option of writing an essay or taking on a new progressive method of learning, which was creating a website instead (one of the notes was that we may need to… Read the rest

Project 4: Pictalk 1.1

For the final CART351 project I went ahead with a revision to the picture platform PicTalk with some enhancements and added features (I’m already going down that road).

The first was giving the pictures unique names, this way if two… Read the rest

Project 3: webDial, personal bookmark start-page

By using a combination of PHP, MySQL and reliable jQuery I was able to produce a fairly simple layout (forgive my basic permissions system, asking for a password is primitive) and allowed for the creation of a fun UI.

The… Read the rest

Project 2: Pictalk, the product

And it’s done. This project taught me so much about PHP and its uses. I’m very happy with the result of this project even if it isn’t optimized and polished for maximum usability.

Site: PicTalk

Project 2: PicTalk, the concept

The plan is to create a platform of anonymous images submissions and image commenting. The regular belief of communication is the exchange of information from one group or entity to another. By removing the author from the equation the subject… Read the rest

Project 1: Imaginary Networks

First project of the year.
The class was challenged with creating a story or “cartography” with a form of interaction. Luckily I had been running my GPS while I jogged.

After extracting that GPS jogging data, I found this… Read the rest

Twitter SimonPetryJogs

After picking up an awesome iPhone app called RunKeeper (Free and Pro) I’ve been jogging with much greater awareness. This app is fantastic, it tracks my route (conveniently on Google Maps), the total… Read the rest