Time to update my CV :-)

It reminded me somehow of an age-old animated GIF I found just recently when crawling though mails from the last millenium.

In his tutorial, Chris shows how to build a custom archive view for WordPress based on post thumbnails. As you hover over an image, the post title and excerpt slide in. The hoverFlow plugin is used for smooth animation (without further explanation, but hey, this is primarily about WordPress). As a bonus, horizontal scrolling is also supported via mouse wheel.

You can see the resulting archives here. Nice work, Chris!

“My Way” is published as part of Christoph’s “Abstract City” blog for The New York Times.

Other series include “The Boys and the Subway”, “Bathroom Art”, “My Life With Cables” and “Bio-diversity”.

My favorite, “Over the Wall“, which tells the story of the Berlin Wall, reminded me of a paper braiding technique I was just about to forget. Which leads me to the fact that I got used to (something like) pixels even before I got a computer…

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There is an issue with the current Google Maps embedding code (the street view icon is blocking the zoom controls). Hope this gets fixed this week. Fixed (street view icon has gone).

• Flight to Singapore (Stopover 2 nights)
• Flight to Melbourne VIC (2 nights)
• Great Southern Touring Route (4 days), including Great Ocean Road, Grampians NP
  • Apollo Bay VIC (1 night)
  • Dunkeld VIC (1 night)
  • Halls Gap VIC (1 night)
• Flight to Sydney NSW (4 nights)
• Flight to Cairns QLD (4 nights)
• Road Trip (5 days) to Torquay QLD (1 night), via Atherton Table Lands, possible stays:
  • Mission Beach QLD
  • Townsville QLD
  • Mackay QLD
  • Rockhampton QLD
• Fraser Island Trip (2 days), another night in Torquay QLD
• Trip to Mooloolaba QLD (1 night)
• Trip to Beenleigh QLD (2 nights)
• Flight from Brisbane QLD via Singapore back home

You can’t name a folder ‘con’ in Microsoft Windows

Need some background? See MSDN – Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces:

Do not use the following reserved device names for the name of a file: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9. Also avoid these names followed immediately by an extension; for example, NUL.txt is not recommended.

Last Friday, Chris Coyier of the popular web design community CSS-Tricks (who states to have about 1.6 million pageviews per month, 40.000 RSS subscriptions) featured my hoverFlow plugin in a dedicated screencast. I mean, I was used to see some mentions on bookmarking sites or short reviews, but we are talking about an almost 20 (!) minute top quality video here.

Back in December, Chris already wrote an article called Fully Executing jQuery Animations Without Queuing. He tried different approaches and came up with a first solution. I replied and pointed him to my hoverFlow plugin. He seemed to like it and added a link to his article. Mission completed, I thought, and forgot about it.

And now, almost a month later, Chris covers the topic again in screencast #79: Complete/Non-Queuing Animations with jQuery.

When you use jQuery’s .animate() function with something like a hover event, those animations will “queue up”. That is, if you hover multiple times, that animation will fire multiple times. The classic method to prevent this is to throw in a .stop() before the animation, but I find this abrupt and not ideal, because it prevents the animation from completing a full cycle. In this screencast we’ll look at a few attempts at solving this and ultimately using a plugin that does a great job.

The screencast is really worth a look. Chris not only explains the problem and finally integrates hoverFlow into a demo site, he also has a lot of fun doing so. You can see him unsuccessfully pasting hex colors from Adobe’s kuler application, exclaiming a lot of “Oohs” and “Aahs” when describing the beauty of animations, and finally moaning about missing ads for his screencast.

Well done, Chris, and thank you very much!