These are the blog archives from my old blog, preserved for posterity. Allow me to direct you to the new mistercameron.com. Enjoy.
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Not Forgotten
It’s been a while since I blogged here regularly. I have the best of intentions, but with life being what it is, I rarely think about it, much less take the time or have the energy to do it. I’m reminded that I do this for us – for me and for you. From time …
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1) In the end, I learned the aesthetics of apps the same way I’ve learned any creative endeavor: cold, hard analysis. And shameless copying of what works. I’m enamored with well-designed objects, software, though I’m not a designer. I appreciate posts like this one because it scratches that inner itch …
Initial Reactions: Apple Watch, Apple Pay, iPhone 6
Today’s Apple event flew by, and for good reason – it was jam-packed full of some goodies. iPhone 6, 6 Plus I hate to say it, but I think the iPhone 6 is the least interesting piece of news from the Apple Event. But, that doesn’t mean these are un-interesting devices. Of course, we’re all …
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MapBox Visualizes 3 Billion Tweets
Visualizing 3 Billion Tweets The patterns of usage in each city often reflect economic stratification. For example iPhones, in red, are predominantly in wealthy sections of the city while Android phones, in green, have more coverage in poorer sections. On a global level, national trends reveal a complicated set of cultural preferences. I wouldn’t say …
iOS Smart App Banner plugin for WordPress
iOS Smart App Banner plugin for WordPress
I just released version 1.0 of my iOS Smart App Banner plugin for Wordpress. This plugin lets you put a smart app banner at the top of your post or page when an iOS device visits in mobile Safari. It’s a great tool for app promotion that makes it very easy for people to find & buy your app in the App Store.
Update your WordPress.com RSS links!
I just noticed that the live feed from this blog to my brochure site at archive.mistercameron.com was broken. The code I wrote to parse the rss data was throwing an error because the link to http://archive.mistercameron.com/feed no longer resolved. Huh. The folks at WordPress must have changed something in their .htaccess file recently because adding …
EnvironmentalLights Redesign Launch
After much work and anticipation, the Environmental Lights redesign has launched. I’ve effectively been the dev project lead (not project manager) for this site (via 212Interactive) for the last year – a great experience. The goal for this redesign was to clean up some of the design and make the site easier for customers to …
Dynamically set onClick events in IE and Firefox
I’ve had a couple of small tasks where I’ve needed to toggle the onclick events on a page element. It was surprising how difficult it is to get a straight answer on how to do this. function hide_field() { my_element.onclick = function() { show_field(); }; } function show_field() { my_element.onclick = function() { hide_field(); }; …
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RevealCMS backs DIVEintoFLOOD.com
The Flood website redesign has finally launched. On the back-end is the upcoming revealCMS. There are still a few bugs here and there that I want to iron-out before I make it a 1.0 release, but it’s getting there. Overall it’s been a very stable release. The only hiccups we’ve really had to date are …