http://blog.briandichiara.com designer. developer. friend. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:07:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When deciding on a Halloween costume this year, I was compelled to mock my favorite folk comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, and designed a pretty-decent clone of the robot costume from Season 1 Episode 1 of FOTC on HBO. This costume was featured in their debut music video called ... http://blog.briandichiara.com/the-distant-future/ Like many other people, I found Mike Lopez's image thumbnail script quite useful. He has taken the time to go through the brain-crunching algorithm to create image proportional image thumbnails when given a max height/width. Although this script is very handy, it was lacking in a few areas, such as ... http://blog.briandichiara.com/image-thumbnail-creator/ This code is something i found that will force download, rather than opening in browser: http://blog.briandichiara.com/download-code/ After much long waiting, HBO has posted an episode of Flight of the Conchords on their website. Here it is: http://blog.briandichiara.com/flight-of-the-conchords-show-premieres-this-month/ Here's some handy code to help you get starting if you are using PHP and need a 50-state drop down select box. It's already pre-built to maintain selected value after post. http://blog.briandichiara.com/50-us-states-with-php-code/ http://blog.briandichiara.com/this-is-the-internet-people/ Anybody remember the video for Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs? I got to thinking about this song, and after downloading the mp3 from allofmp3.com, I decided to hunt out the video. Since I love claymation, I felt the need to post it here. http://blog.briandichiara.com/blast-from-the-past/ Along with all the other problems that have long plagued Internet Explorer, with their newest release, one of the worst bugs I have ever seen is packaged with it. This video gives a good demonstration of what happens: http://blog.briandichiara.com/ie-7-sucks/ Here's some PHP code that will validate an email address. http://blog.briandichiara.com/validate-email-address/ Difficulty: 2 (Beginner) Time: 5 minutes I decided to give tutorials a try and have seen how popular the "vector starburst" has become, so I decided to demonstrate a simple way to do that in Illustrator. There's a pretty decent tutorial of how to do one in photoshop here, if you're interested. http://blog.briandichiara.com/creating-a-starburst/