Today we made changes to the Squirrelify application to allow better usability for the end user when creating an image. Previously, the user was limited to three separate locations that a squirrel could be placed. When placing a squirrel and choosing a size and a location, neither of these could be seen, only after the image [...]
Browsing the blog archives for August, 2009
http://renownedmedia.com/blog/jquery-slider-adding-usability-to-squirrelify/
Just found out Google Analytics has a great feature to automatically email a specified list of emails a PDF of the traffic every morning. This is great news for us web developers who keep track of all our clientel traffic in one central location and don’t want to give out our account credentials. To set this [...]
http://renownedmedia.com/blog/google-analytics-scheduled-report-emailing/
There is an annoying bug with the Facebook API which is preventing the Squirrelify app from working as planned. Facebook uses a version of HTML that they extend from basic HTML called FBML (FaceBook Markup Language). What this does is allow certain tags to be displayed on the screen which are then altered using javascript to [...]
http://renownedmedia.com/blog/facebook-api-bug-fbphoto-for-new-accounts/
We just launched a Facebook app today in its beta form. The application, squirrelify, lets you take a photo from one of your Facebook albums, and add a squirrel to it while blurring the background. The effect that it is trying to produce is that a squirrel pops up right as the camera takes a shot, [...]
http://renownedmedia.com/blog/beta-testing-a-new-facebook-app-squirrelify/
Here is the source code for our user authentication model which we use in our CodeIgniter applications for interfacing with our users tables. Highly configurable to suit a variety of database schemas. CodeVault CodeIgniter User Authentication Model Please leave any feedback for the model on this blog post, not in the CodeVault!
http://renownedmedia.com/blog/codeigniter-user-authentication-model/
This video shows you how to go through the process of setting custom nameservers using GoDaddy. This is a requirement to get your website running if you bought your domain through GoDaddy and have a different hosting server.
http://renownedmedia.com/blog/setting-custom-godaddy-nameservers-video-tutorial/
After tying to modify the tag cloud font sizes by hacking away at the CSS using tag-link-## and realizing it just wasn’t going to work no matter how hard I tried, I decided to go a little deeper and change the inline font-sizes that wordpress was spitting out. Wordpress lets you add “filters” in the form [...]
http://renownedmedia.com/blog/how-to-change-wordpress-tag-cloud-font-sizes/
I’ve recently began building databases which require multilingual support. What this means is that the default MySQL Collation of “latin1_swedish_ci” just isn’t cutting it anymore. What I needed to do is enable Unicode support in my text tables (not to mention language management, but that’s a whole different story). Here is what you do to change [...]
http://renownedmedia.com/blog/changing-mysql-default-character-sets/
This is an implementation of the Traveling Salesman Genetic Algorithm which I developed in PHP during my final year of college. It is available in the codevault here: PHP Traveling Salesman Genetic Algorithm Sourcecode PHP Traveling Salesman Genetic Algorithm Example
http://renownedmedia.com/blog/genetic-algorithm-traveling-salesperson-php/
Renowned Media finally gets a facelife! We did upload a “coming soon” layout about two weeks ago to get us motivated to make updates, looks like it worked. This new layout is a lot dirtier and grungier than any of our previous layouts, this was chosen due to the large amount of outdoor / hunting websites [...]
http://renownedmedia.com/blog/new-website-layout/
