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Archive for September, 2008

JsonFx.net Library – finally a decent ajax library for .Net

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Stephen McKamey is a friend of mine from my days at MyFamily.com – he’s a good dev and he’s recently released his own json library called FsonFx. It’s a nice bit of code from the looks of it.
It features:

build time compilation of client libraries,
has JSON-RPC 2.0 support,
does everything it can to optimize bandwidth [...]

Playing with off camera lighting

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Light at 1 ft above face 3 feet left and total of about 4 feet away – flash at 1/16 manual power through a westcott white umbrella.

Wordle applied to candidate speeches

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Wordle.net is a site capable of producing images that include the relative # of times a word comes up in a chunk of text (often referred to as word clouds) to help you visualize the chunk of text it just analyzed.  The bigger the word the more often it was used.  I just ran the [...]