Ah.So.Idea http://www.ahsodes.com/blog Ah.So.Idea - > your culturo-techno blunderbuss... Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:06:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 © ahsphar2001@yahoo.com () ahsphar2001@yahoo.com() Ah.So.Idea - your culturo-techno blunderbuss... ahsphar2001@yahoo.com No no http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Ah.So.Idea http://www.ahsodes.com/blog 144 144 latest update – hooky kid http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/latest-update-hooky-kid/ http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/latest-update-hooky-kid/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:14:51 +0000 Holly http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/?p=109 http://www.ahsodes.com/images/art/hooky_kid_2009-10.html ]]> It’s been almost a year since I last posted a new image of where I am on my latest work. just posted it on my artwork page: http://ahsodes.com/auto_thumb_generator.php or vist it directly here -> http://www.ahsodes.com/images/art/hooky_kid_2009-10.html

]]> http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/latest-update-hooky-kid/feed/ 0 just finished usmagazine.com (well, 2.5 weeks ago http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/just-finished-usmagazine-com-well-2-5-weeks-ago/ http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/just-finished-usmagazine-com-well-2-5-weeks-ago/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:54:15 +0000 Holly http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/just-finished-usmagazine-com-well-2-5-weeks-ago/

usmagazine.com

Category: News

Topic: celebrity news

Year created: 2009

Overall rating: 4 out of 5
Content rating: 3 out of 5
Design rating: 4 out of 5
Navigation rating: 4 out of 5

We just finished the first phase of this site - usmagazine.com. most of the design and development was performed by funnygarbage, where we, at wenner, provided direction and support. It is very cool, though. First site I've built with symfony. It is too early, really to make any snap judgements on the framework, though. We have another couple of months, at least before users get used to it and traffic resumes to a pre-redesign level - at least that is how it went for the last redesign, which wasn't half as drastic. What I am looking forward to most, though, is bringing more social features into the site - ratings, click streams, recommendations, whatever.

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usmagazine.com

Category: News

Topic: celebrity news

Year created: 2009

Overall rating: 4 out of 5
Content rating: 3 out of 5
Design rating: 4 out of 5
Navigation rating: 4 out of 5

We just finished the first phase of this site – usmagazine.com. most of the design and development was performed by funnygarbage, where we, at wenner, provided direction and support.

It is very cool, though. First site I’ve built with symfony. It is too early, really to make any snap judgements on the framework, though. We have another couple of months, at least before users get used to it and traffic resumes to a pre-redesign level – at least that is how it went for the last redesign, which wasn’t half as drastic.

What I am looking forward to most, though, is bringing more social features into the site – ratings, click streams, recommendations, whatever.

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IMG00276-sunset IMG00279-sunset IMG00280-sunset IMG00281-dusk IMG00283-sunset IMG00285-sunset IMG00287-sunset IMG00289-sunset IMG00294-dusk IMG00299-redsun IMG00300-sunset IMG00304-redsky IMG00306-redsky IMG00307-bklyn_clouds IMG00308-bklyn_sunset IMG00309-bklyn_sunset3 IMG00310-bklyn_sunset4 IMG00313-bklyn_sunset5 ]]> http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/brooklyn-sunsets/feed/ 0 vacation – VA/SC/GA http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/vacation-vascga/ http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/vacation-vascga/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:10:25 +0000 Holly http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/?p=59 Just got back from a pretty nice vacation – in this order: Williamsburg, VA – Hilton Head, SC (base camp) – Savannah, GA – Charelston, SC – Hilton Head, SC (chilled for a day) – Williamsburg, VA – back to Bkln, NY (9 days)

IMG00422-hilton_head_beach IMG00405-kings_mill_sunset3 IMG00405-kings_mill_sunset3 IMG00404-kings_mill_sunset2 IMG00407-kings_mill_sunset4 IMG00410-hilton_head_trees IMG00411-savannah_square_w_amy IMG00413-savannah_sq_w_amy IMG00415-savannah_griffon IMG00417-charleston_baked_wall2 IMG00419-charleston_fountain IMG00421-charleston_rooftop IMG00424-hilton_head_beach3 IMG00425-hilton_head_beach_dusk IMG00429-hilton_head_beach_eve IMG00428-hilton_head_beach_dusk3 IMG00427-hilton_head_beach_dusk3 IMG00430-hilton_head_beach_eve2-2blur IMG00437-hilton_head_beach_eve9 IMG00436-hilton_head_beach_eve8 IMG00438-kings_mil-sh2 IMG00440-kings_mill2 ]]> http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/vacation-vascga/feed/ 0 Usmagazine.com relaunch http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/usmagazine-com-relaunch/ http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/usmagazine-com-relaunch/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:16:44 +0000 Holly http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/?p=55 Last week we launched the newly redesigned usmagazine.com… Has a cool new look and it’s backend is much more structured which should make it easier to create new sections/features down the road as well as keep everything much “cleaner” code-wise. It is now built on a much better framework (IMHO) that uses MVC principals much better than the old site’s framework.

I am pushing to add user registration on the site next… as soon as all the wrinkles have been ironed out of this first iteration of the new site, hopefully.

I feel like there are still some performance issues but no one but me seems to be noticing anything. I’m definitely going to look into it more when I get back from a long deserved (IMHO) vacation…

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But there was other really good stuff too (Charles Gayle, Sun Ra Arkestra) and I got a buttload of great cd’s (which I haven’t done in a while) so overall, I was really glad that I didn’t miss the shows this year! (It made me feel like I was in college in Baltimore again)

Here’s a review of Friday night

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And, as a random little sidenote, here’s a link to a blog post I stumbled upon about clearing session variables in Symfony:

$this->getUser()->getParameterHolder()->clear();
$this->getUser()->getAttributeHolder()->clear();

http://eatmymonkeydust.com/2008/08/symfony-security-sessions-not-cleared-when-logging-out/

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If anyone has any ideas, I’d love to hear them.

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Also, a spiffy information visualization of the artists in the collection has been added.  It was created using the Google AJAX visualization API.

]]> http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/last-fm-channel-and-collection-visualization/feed/ 0 arrrr…. how be goin’the art, matey? http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/arrrr-how-be-gointhe-art-matey/ http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/arrrr-how-be-gointhe-art-matey/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:17:51 +0000 Holly http://www.ahsodes.com/blog/?p=42 Well, If you really must know, it’s been going very slowly.  I’ve been working on hooky-kid for a long time and I just finished a small piece I made as an xmas gift.  They’re all on this page in the last row – http://ahsodes.com/auto_thumb_generator.php

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