Marcus McCurdy’s Blog

All about Iron Man’s suit.

I came across this tutorial on design float and decided to try it out. The tutorial is from Vile Works blog. Here is my end result of the tutorial.[Show as slideshow]

I stumbled upon (not the stumble upon site) this great post on Gamasutra about using the highpass filter in photoshop to make it easier to tile textures. The focus is on textures in games and 3D graphics, but it is sill pertinant for any kind of texture use. http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20010523/hajba_pfv.htm

I just found this really cool free grunge texture photo site called Urban Dirty. I checked out some of the textures and they look really top-notch.

Today is Earth Day if you weren’t already aware and I just wanted to make a special post wishing everyone a happy day. Take a moment to step outside and enjoy nature for a few minutes to help celebrate the day.

Speed up your site using yslow and the tips from this link.

Here is Lola the Chihuahua performing her newest trick.

Everything has been switched over to the new media temple server and is working great. The only hiccup I had was that I needed to change my .htaccess file slightly due to the different server configuration, but everything is copacetic now.

The servers are too slow!
I’ve decided to switch hosting from Go Daddy to Media Temple. Go daddy is just too slow. I’m not sure if it is the database server that is causing my wordpress to be unacceptably slow or if I just got stuck on a bad shared hosting server e.g. someone else is [...]

First, I know there are plugins that do this, but I didn’t feel like using a plugin. Second, I got the idea for this from Jennifer Slegg’s blog post 52 easy ways to optimize your blog while on your coffee break. The link that she gave to Matt Cutt’s blog post How to highlight author comments in WordPress  [...]