AustinBaum

Always looking up keycodes for keyboard keys? Keep landing on those ancient ugly sites built in the 90's with the information buried in content somewhere. Keep finding one keycode on stackoverflow, but not the one you wanted. The Solution! http://keycodes.atjayjo.com/

Always curious about the seasons of the Church, I sought out some books and people to learn more. There is a really neat rich history of the Church Seasons and it's surprisingly similar across all denominations. So I made this calendar. It's meant to be simple and share just the seasons of the Christian calendar relevant to us all. To spur us to think a bit more about the time of the year we're in and how to best approach our days, study, relationships, etc. It's created using a simple PHP API that returns the seasons and dates. The hope is to eventually share this API so that anyone can pull and publish the seasons and dates. Share it. Use it. Let me know what you think.

JEKYLL!! Pumped to try this and hosting it on github pages. Too long I've waited. It's coming together nicely so far.

Loading action buttons with CSS. http://lab.hakim.se/ladda/ I don't know why I never thought of this. What a good idea. It's so simple. Officially in the tool belt.

Control devices from anywhere in your home using just a wireless router? No freakin way. Two people have told me about this in the last couple of days so I looked it up. Holy moly! It's real. http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/#publication The gestures seem to have to be a bit large and exaggerated, but the tech seems very young and I'm sure they'll figure out a way to tune it. Still, the possibilities are incredible. Plus the idea of having a signature motion to enable it is fantastic and moves the implementation possibilities into even larger applications. Finally a reason to have kept all those linksys routers around! I can't wait to get my hands on their open source and set this up at home. Maybe Myo and Leap have more precision, but there is no arguing that WiSee has fantastic possibility.

One day soon = hardware hack day. I'm getting pumped just thinking about it. Hardware we got: ninjablocks.com/ makeymakey.com/ raspberrypi.org/ amazon.com/MK808-Android-Rockchip-RK3066-Cortex-A9/dp/B009OX22B4 Hardware we wish we had: leapmotion.com (for the future...) ouya.tv/ thalmic.com/myo/ Ideas: Motion activated web cam - bit.ly/18Sv5cq Google TV - http://bit.ly/133LMxC Wifi Deadbolt for the office - like this kinda: http://bit.ly/13oHUct Office Membership enabled wifi access - paid = wifi

Mo CMS's, Mo Problems. A few new tools I'm waiting to try out one day when I have lots of time to tinker. http://getkirby.com/ http://buildwithcraft.com/ http://grabaperch.com/ http://jekyllrb.com/

On a Javascript studying kick. Finding all kinds of treats in these. http://bonsaiden.github.io/JavaScript-Garden/ http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html http://eleventyone.done.hu/OReilly.JavaScript.The.Good.Parts.May.2008.pdf http://yuiblog.com/crockford/ Added Oct 15, 2013: http://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/book/

Just discovered these Meteor protips by @benjaminrh. Especially these login/logout hooks. It's on the list of items to use on my next meteor project for sure. "Are you sure you want to logout? Ok, Ya'll come back now." https://coderwall.com/p/lyowmg

Awesome new Gallery using only CSS, no Javascript! Very cool and lightweight. By @benschwarz. Check out his screencast where he goes over the project and how to use it. I'm definitely going to this on a project soon. http://benschwarz.github.io/gallery-css/

Hands full? Pay without getting out your phone, or wallet. Img Credit (http://bit.ly/ecN4y1)

Manage and monitor servers. img credit (http://bit.ly/WX9hqO)

Real time access to EHR Data for busy doctors. credit (http://bit.ly/YKmZLB)

Two fantastic new tools: markdown preview for finder, and open files in ST2 from terminal. Totally worth the 5 minutes to install them both. https://github.com/ttscoff/MMD-QuickLook https://gist.github.com/artero/1236170

Really super cool new site for the Lost Canyon Advance Team. They are a group of people who commit time to "fill, prepare and advance" this camp for Young Life in Arizona. It's a fantastic camp property that I have been to many times. The people on this team are awesome and passionate about the impact that they have on kids and communities throughout Arizona and the surrounding region. I love this site! It was fun to build and I think it's a cool tool for the A-Team to have at their disposal. Check it out http://advanceteam.org *Disclaimer: I'm affiliated with the Advance Team myself, so I'm biased.

Cool shirts! Wait...I designed that! Reading an email from my buddy Zac in Tanzania I noticed the picture he included. It was a bunch of guys at their last YL Camp wearing some sweet T-shirts. At first I didn't realize what I was looking at but after a few seconds of thinking, "cool shirts Zac, wish I had one of those," I remembered that I had designed a shirt for him a couple of months ago. A quick look in my dropbox and sure enough, it was my design I was looking at. Awesome! Now I really want one of those! How cool that instead of recognizing it as my own design, I thought, cool shirt. That's fun. Sometimes I surprise myself. Read Zac's Email here. (Zac, send me a shirt)

Flash v. SEO Today I learned an important lesson while trying to redirect links from an old Flash site to a new Wordpress site I built for a client. We wanted to make the transition seamless for all the folks who have specific pages bookmarked. I took the time to create redirects for the majority of the old pages before I switched off the old site so that they would all land on a nice relevant page on the new site. BAZINGA! That's not possible when you're trying to redirect links that are created with Hashes by some Flash Developer. Therefore redirecting specific pages from the old site using a nice server side 301 redirects which Google recommends is NOT possible. That's right! Want to preserve that "SEO Juice" you've got for all your pages on a flash site for a couple of years, nope! I learned this: When you transition from a Flash site with Hash Link Pages to a site like Wordpress with real URLs for the pages, you have to choose whether to go with better SEO or friendlier link redirects. You can't have both. (That took a few hours.) You can setup some fun Javascript to read your URL with the hash, parse the hash and redirect to the proper page on your new site. However these redirects won't be fast and they won't be 301's. Or you can do the best for the SEO and just setup a nice 301 redirect in an htaccess file, put that in the site root and point all old site links to the new site. That way every page someone had bookmarked on your old site will just point to the homepage of your new site. At least they are there right? I ended up going with the single htaccess redirect. Why? I wanted to maintain some of the SEO search listing results (we have multiple results on the first page for many search terms) and provide the fastest possible redirection. If we didn't already have some decent SEO Juice I'd probably have gone with the JS Script I started writing to redirect users to the more relevant pages on the new site. I think it is a nicer solution for the users with bookmarks to land where they should. But, that really has to be the only priority to make sense over the 301 redirect Oh well, a lesson learned, a few hours donated trying to get around it. At least I learned a lot about http requests in the process. A couple of links were pretty valuable in the process: For testing REGEXs http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/regex-tester/ For testing htaccess redirects http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/ For Redirect Best Practices http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection