Monsterbox Productions

Awesome, I’m on the front page.

We already have another Math Video underway. Watch out for it!

I finally got a piece of rail to go along with my ruby. With the assistance of my friend Andrew who has the better camera lens we did some test shots. A Flickr set will shortly follow with a CC License that let you use the photos however you wish.

Am I taking this Ruby on Rails things too far?

What an interesting discovery Brian found.

The only or first place in Thunder Bay was my business address.

I’m a huge fan of Stratego and I came across a game called Snag the Flag made by Josh Goebel

If anyone is on-line and wants to play IM or e-mail me.

I bought a brand new Nikon D80 because I’m shooting an entire product line for an on-line shopping cart. I also bought a $70 light box from WalMart and the results were poor so I returned it and built my own light box. The results were dramastically¹ better.

It costed around the same amount of money but I didn’t go bargain hunting since I have a-lot work ahead of me. The best part is that the lights are florescent so no hot lights.

Materials:

• 1.5 meters of cheap white fabric
• three clip lights
• three 40 watts florescent light bulbs (2,600 lumens)
• big plastic rubbermaid container
• white bristle board

I’m no master of photography but I’m happy with the results.

¹ A word I unknowingly fumbled together one day: dramatic + drastic = dramastic

Last week I started adding my web apps into Fluid. Think of having a web-browser dedicated to a specific app.

Why put Web Apps into their own browser?

Show the difference between regular web-sites and web apps. It has its own icon on the desktop or the dockbar instead of before where users would

• forget the link
• loose the bookmark
• delete the email

Lets say you send you web app demo on cd to a client for review. Instead of them opening it in there browser that you can’t predict, they can open it in Prism or Fluid.

There are many more reason why to use it. But enough jabber, where do you get it from?

Grab it here!

Fluid	only for mac os x
Prism	windows, mac os x, linux

I purchased and read the ebook How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer and here are my after thoughts.

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I received my PeepCode t-shirt from the wonderful TopFunky Corporation.

You Know you’re a programmer when..

I thought it was funny

Ever pick up subtle hints that some kind of change is on its way?

I’ve heard about the version control system Git three times this week:

• RSpec Mailing List (moving source)
• Rails Envy (podcast)
• Peepcode (screen cast on how to use it)

It seems I have something new to learn on my list.

Git Vs Subversion

I think for the past 2 weeks I’ve been up until 4am in the morning doing work. I came across is this video on YouTube and I thought is was an nice stress reliever.

Common Craft is a company that explains things using a simple format and real-world stories to make sense of complex ideas.

Recommended videos to watch:

• RSS in Plain English
• Social Bookmarking in Plain English
• Wikis in Plain English

A good youtube video on how to create digital presentations:

I recently purchased an apple poster for my work environment to reinforce the attitude, beliefs and the overall perception I want to have when I’m working.

Think about this next time your visiting your Doctor:

Your sitting in your doctor office waiting.
Does your doctor have a-lot of different kinds of medical posters and related material all throughout the room?
Do you think you’d feel less comfortable, assured or secure if the room was bare?