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The Darth Vader burger is for real, internet news is not
The black-bunned Darth Vader burger, being offered by French fast food chain Quick, is for real, but you wouldn't know it from reading the story on internet news outlets. When examining the story on several major sites (CNN, ABC News, Fox News, Huffington Post, CNET, to name a few), I noticed that almost all of [...]
JavaScript HSV Plasma jQuery Plug-in
While playing around with an 8x8 LED matrix connected to an Arduino through a Color Shield, I wanted to gain a better understanding of the plasma function in the demo. Since I'm a bit more comfortable with JavaScript than C/C++, I figured I would translate the plasma code into JavaScript and play with some settings. [...]
Facebook Security Information notice
Facebook has a new security feature that makes me feel so secure.
Color Converter
This JavaScript tool converts RGB colors (values of 0-255 for each red, green, blue) into hexadecimal notation (#1a2b3c).
The QR Cube Released
The QR Cube, Physical hyperlinking made easy. Generate QR Codes and have 2-dimensional barcode printed on a wide variety of products, from apparel & accessories to home & office.
Delizia D’Este Released
The Delizia D’Este website was released.
Sport Technology Released
The Sport Technology website was released at http://www.flowboard.com. Sport TechnologyTM is one of the nation’s fastest growing recreational sports product companies. A leading innovator in the action sports industry, with patented exciting new board riding and gravity propelled products.

How Not to Steal a Website

Aug 012011

First, let's take a look at the website for a VCA Animal Hospital. http://www.vcahospitals.com/alameda-east Next, we'll take a look at a veterinary website in the UK. http://petany.co.uk/east/home.html As you may have noticed, these two websites look remarkably similar. I developed the VCA website while working at the Designory. This website from the UK has no [...]

jQuery Plasma Plug-in now released (beta)

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Apr 142011

jQuery Plasma Plug-in now released (beta)

I posted my plug-in to the official jQuery Plug-in repository and the source is hosted on Google Project Hosting. The latest releases can be found in either location, this blog may or may not contain the latest version. The jQuery Plasma Plug-in now has an official project page, which will always contain the latest releases [...]

Background Video

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Feb 282011

This is a test of placing a YouTube video as the background of a web page. A friend was asking me about this, because he had seen it on a couple or websites recently. So, I started investigating, and found jQuery Tubular which seemed to do the trick. Now, a word about methodology, I have nothing against jQuery plug-ins, but as a former plug-in author, I know a simple, neat plug-in will bloat out of control with feature requests. So, I generally look at the code, and pull out the functionality that I need, and then rewrite the code for my purposes.

HDPC

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Feb 242011

Thank you, Intel, Universal Studios and the FCC for HDPC. HDPC is a content protection scheme developed after the Blu-Ray spec that will render your Blu-Ray player useless for HDPC discs (such as those from Universal). Movie studios and recording companies have known that content can be perfectly pirated from a digital source since the [...]

Site Update in Progess

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Feb 222011

danielpmacdonald.com has just moved to WordPress in an effort to better present the goals (if any) of this site. Please stand by as content from the old danielpmacdonald.com and projectatomic.com sites are migrated into the new content management system. Feel free to comment (they are moderated), and comment spammers can bite my shiny metal ass.