Eggs Benedict
Wanted to share a pretty tasty recipe I found for Eggs Benedict: Tyler Florence's Hollandaise Sauce (and Eggs Benedict).
Even though I was out of English Muffins, and substituted bacon for the Canadian bacon (which is a win in my book), it made for a great breakfast:
Moved to the Cloud with Windows Azure
While I do realize that "the cloud" is really just a buzzword for "hosted on the internet", I'm still proud to announce that my personal WordPress sites are now all hosted on Windows Azure.
Create Custom Photo Backdrop Backers for Easy Hanging
For the past year, Joy and I have been putting together a small collection of photo backdrops for indoor portrait work. While backdrops are extremely convenient for changing the scene of a photo while indoors, unless you have a proper setup they can be difficult to work with. Over the weekend, I put together a small lifehack to make handling backdrops easier.
This is how we used to hang our backdrops:
Knockout, Internet Explorer, and Object Tags
Today I ran into an interesting problem. I was dynamically changing an object tag's source (the data attribute) to load a different Flash file based on a user's selection. This was working beautifully in Chrome; however, in Internet Explorer it would load initially, but would never change with a user's new selection. Apparently, the data attribute cannot be changed after it's been initially set.
Here is a sample of the code I had directly in the HTML:
Easily Create Facebook Cover Photo Collages in Lightroom
If you use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom in your photography workflow, you're probably publishing photos to Facebook in some fashion. Here's an awesome post on how to create custom Facebook Cover Photo collages right in Lightroom's Print module: Lightroom 4 Print Templates: Facebook Cover Photo Layouts | 27ShutterClicks Blog.
There are a handful of useful templates:
Get a Real, Reliable Alarm Clock!
Happy end-of-Daylight Saving Time, everybody! I don't know about you, but I woke up at the proper time today. I like to think it's because of my excellent sense of time, but in reality it's probably because I use a real, reliable alarm clock for all of my waking-up business.
I see a lot of these statuses around any time changes:
We Have a Photo Featured at SmugMug Education
One of our photos is currently featured in a SmugMug Education post: SmugMug Education: What Not to Wear (to That Photo Shoot). Our photo is listed as a good example of what to wear.
Here's the photo they featured:
Byte Rot: Performance Comparison of Code Invocation Methods in .NET
This is a great overview of the various methods of code invocation in .NET. I highly recommend reading it: Byte Rot: Performance Comparison of Code Invocation Methods in .NET.
Import Large SQL Scripts into SQL Server
Today's quick tip is brought to you by the following error message:
Designing My Personal Business Card
Before heading to #THATconference, I prepared a small set of business cards to help with networking. Thankfully, I have a lot of design-conscious friends and could use them to test and critique the numerous revisions that my personal card went through. I thought I'd share part of that design process.
I wanted a card that would say who I am, specify a few methods of contact, and be clean and simple. This is the initial idea that came to me: