Author Archives: christrygstad

Free and Legal Atmosphere Album!

I don’t normally just post links, but Atmosphere has just put a free, legal album that you can download immediately! http://www.rhymesayers.com/atmosphere/ For those who don’t know, Atmosphere is an indie rapper from Minneapolis. Again, his album is free, so check him out!

Ping your sitemap

What if you have a sitemap.xml file on your server, and you want to automate the pinging of search engines like google, yahoo, ask and moreover (from what I understand, the sitemaps service for MSN)? If you have a CMS such as Drupal or WordPress, it will automatically ping, or you can ping with PHP [...]

Dynamically resizing SWFObject to fit into a liquid or flexible layout

I have a website with a flexible layout, I guess you would call it jello, so it resizes depending on the size of the window and resolution, making it difficult to determine what to pass as width and height variables. I wanted it to fit well into its containing <div>. I couldn’t believe that there [...]

Is it better to buy or rent?

I try to not just post links with minimal commentary, but this tool is worth a look. I could play with this all day. I have to read about the methodology, and its hard to quantify the benefits of having your own yard for bonfires, and having whatever dog you want, but its still interesting.