Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Mixing Photos With Classical Artwork

Over on Digital Colony, I was having some fun in Photoshop. Take the colors from a classical painting and apply them to a photograph. Below is an autumn photograph from New England, a Monet painting and the resulting mashup.

Photo and Classical Art Mashup

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Ode to Matt Drudge

Over on my technical site Digital Colony, I just finished the tutorial Roll Your own Drudge Report in ASP.NET. I also built a working demo called ASP.NET Report.
Sometimes the fun coding projects are the simplest.

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Updated SPAM fighting tools

The most popular page (by far) on my technical site Digital Colony has been the Mask Email Generator page. There are 2 tools. The first one helps hide your email address by using ASCII codes so those sneaky spiders have trouble finding email addresses inside the source code of a web page. The second tool [...]

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

INeedCoffee was Hacked

Someone tinkered with one of the tables. The damage was very limited and I was able to restore everything and tighten up security in the process. For a more technical analysis head over to Digital Colony.

Monday, January 1st, 2007

Digital Colony 2007

It’s been a while since I released a new version of Digital Colony. Well the wait is over. The new version of my technical site is now live. Legacy content will be trickled onto the site in the next few weeks.
The new design uses ASP.NET 2.0, C#, Master Pages, Yahoo UI Library and the new [...]

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Fun with SmugMug

Last year I started using SmugMug to host my photos. Prior to that I hosted my own photo galleries. In order to not exceed my allocated disk space, I trimmed each image down to a smaller size. In the days of broadband, it just makes more sense to have a dedicated media host like SmugMug [...]

Friday, April 14th, 2006

Mask Email Image Revisited

In 2002, I created a cool little tool that builds an image from an email address. The purpose is to allow people to put a contact email address on a web site without spiders seeing it and sending them spam.
This page is quite popular. So when my web host decided to remove the [...]

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Bulk GeoEncoding

Last weekend I was contacted by a guy in Illinois about my Using Yahoo! Maps GeoCoding API in C# article. In the article I show how to encode a single address using a mapping service provided by Yahoo!. This guy was interested in doing bulk encoding. He wanted to encode 25,000 addresses at time. This [...]

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

Using Yahoo! Maps GeoCoding API in C#

Over the last few years, my professional site DigitalColony.com has become ignored. I never meant for that to happen, but on the priority list it keeps coming in last place. INeedCoffee has had a monthly commitment for almost 7 years now. This site has had a near daily blog for most of the [...]