jloop == outburst

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28

site admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:33:00 +0000

Excited to welcome back Dennis Winn (@ddub) to the JLOOP team. Look for him on the JLOOP roster in 2 weeks (sporting a new bumper sticker.) #
More filming outside the loop today. http://twitpic.com/8dppd #
We’re listening to you right now, MJ. RIP. http://bit.ly/2gI2mA #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21

site admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:33:00 +0000

Congrats to our very own @jasonmarkjones for winning an iPhone from #squarespace ! in reply to jasonmarkjones #
Had a great demo of Agent Websites 2.0 for our great clients/friends at http://telesproperties.com. Full company presentation on Monday. #

Lightbox ‘Close’ button not working

daniel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:40:42 +0000

Okay, so we were building another site that uses Lightbox in a photo gallery - problem was, the ‘Close’ button didn’t appear to work in Firefox or Safari. The ‘Close’ image was in place, but you couldn’t click on it. After some muddling around, we figured out what the problem was.

On this particular site we had set some styles for floated images that would add margins around them to give some space between the image and other content.

.left { float: left; }

img.left {
margin-right: 15px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}

For some reason, it appears as if those styles are getting applied to the image in the Lightbox photo gallery, causing it to have a bottom margin that overlaps the ‘Close’ link - and only in Firefox and Safari.

So we just added a new line in our lightbox.css file:

#imageContainer img { margin-bottom: 0; }

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14

site admin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:33:00 +0000

Building a microsite for the sale of Sandy Gallin’s Bel Air mansion: http://bit.ly/Axakf #
Proud to have launched http://www.belairsiena.com today. Let us know if you are in the market. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-07

site admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:33:00 +0000

Some interesting developments in search in the last week. http://bing.com from Microsoft and the http://www.wolframalpha.com/ project. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31

site admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:33:00 +0000

Painting is done at the loop Now on to lighting and wall décor. http://yfrog.com/0mxkcj #
We’ve been working on a somewhat complicated integration between the Basecamp and Harvest APIs for budgeting and planning. Very promising. #
@Gstratford @Kali_marie @Lodan just finished up a good trip to the Rancho Los Alamitos. Beautiful unknown gem of the LBC. #
Daniels-Dysart v. Jones-Fordyce: This week’s double pong tourney finals is underway. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-24

site admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:33:00 +0000

Great call with http://www.cityonahillproductions.com today. Excited about some new projects and a revamp of the TV site in HD. #
We’ve got 14 gallons of paint. JLOOP will look a lot different on Friday. #
experiencing some pretty painfully slow internet tubes at the office right now. #
Its painting day at the loop. We’re closing up a bit early to get started on these walls. #
Updated music delivery system for the loop. Pandora > AirFoil > Office Speakers … & … Pandora > Last.fm > api > jloop.com. Nice! #
Painting has begun. http://twitpic.com/5nrvd #
Kali volunteered to tape. Whoops. http://twitpic.com/5ntlk #
It’s blue! http://twitpic.com/5ntoy #
Painting has rolled on into today…. almost done… its looking great! Pics to come… #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17

site admin — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:33:00 +0000

Our Vergence & Dreamentia friends are Polite in Public. http://bit.ly/Qp6v6 #
our twitter feed is now up on jloop.com. And yes, you can still see what song we are listening too right now. #
Finished up Visual Design for the upcoming relaunch of http://www.thinkdog.com - excited for a fresh new look! #
for all you web developers, @Wolfram_Alpha will be webcasting the deployment of large scale search engine. http://bit.ly/8WJMw informative? #
We’ve got a DOUBLES ping-pong tourney going on at the loop today. So far the competition is fierce. Stop by if you want a game! #

magentocommerce.com 400 bad request solved

jay — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:40:16 +0000

This is super geeky.

But if I’ve been having this problem this long I have to believe there are others. For the last two months, I’ve been completely unable to browse the magentocommerce.com website in Firefox - major pain, considering I’ve been working on two magento projects. Every time I visited I would get a “400 Bad Request” error.

I tried turning off all my Firefox add-ons - to no avail. Finally figured it out. It was a bad cookie that somehow the site had stored on my machine.

I used the Web Developer Toolbar to clear out all the site cookies for magentocommerce.com and that did the trick. Hope this helps someone else from pulling all their hair out.

3 hours of online Twitter Training?

greg — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:32:14 +0000

My response to Kevin.wu

jay — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:00:36 +0000

Yesterday I received this email:

SUBJECT: URGENT –dispute of internet intellectual property safeguard
(If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)

Dear CEO,

We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on April 21, 2009, One Japan company called “Path soft investment Corp” are applying for “jloop”as their China(.cn)/Asia(.asia)/India(.in)/HK(.hk)/TW(.tw)/Mobi(.mobi) etc. domain names, and the internet brand name.

After our initial checking, we found the internet brand name and these domain names being applied are as same as your company’s, so we need to get the confirmation from your company. If the aforesaid company is your business partner or your subsidiary company, please DO NOT reply us, we will approve the application automatically. If you have no any relationship with this company, please contact us within 10 workdays. If out of the deadline, we will approve the application submitted by “Path soft investment Corp” unconditionally.

We would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Best Regards,

Kevin Wu
Senior Director
TEL: +86 21 69929440
Fax: +86 21 69929447
Website:www.qepeng.org.cn
Address:Room 902,8th,nong 1518,Jinyuan 1st Road,Jiading District, Shanghai city.

Today I responded to Mr. Kevin Wu with this reply:

Mr. Wu -

Thank you so much for your mails. It is quite a coincidence that you have received this requesting from “Path soft investment Corp” because just today our company received formally applications from one Canada company called “Soft path investment Corp”. This company are applying for “qepeng” as their USA(.com)/Canada(.canada)/Mumbai(.mmb)/Fantasyisland(.fntsy) etc. domain names and the internet brand name. Isn’t that crazy? What a strange world it is indeedish, isn’t it?

We are sure you would like to own these domain names, so please respond within 4 days and we will also send you a complimentary (refurbished) Clapper for turning lights on/off in your workplace (simply by clapping!). If you do not reply in these deadline we will approve purchase of domains submitted by “Soft path investment Corp” and you will lose rights to soft plushies bearing your company Brand names.

Please reply by mails.

Sincerely,

Jay Dysart
CEO (imagine that!)
JLOOP Rich Media (can you check on the domain names for me?)
Website: www.dontmakemeunfriendyou.com

Do you imagine I’ll get a response?

subscribe2 comment subscription hack

jay — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:43:45 +0000

We have added a feature to the latest version of the very nice Subscribe2 WordPress Plugin.

This hack adds the ability for users to subscribe to comments as well as posts for specific categories. We’d love to see this added to the core functionality of Subscribe2, but in the meantime, here is our hacked version of Subscribe2 4.15.

Kudos to Mike for this hack.

Typical Day Outside JLOOP

lauren — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:12:25 +0000

Typical Day Outside JLOOP from Greg Stratford on Vimeo.

iPhone GUI PSD

jay — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:59:01 +0000

Thanks to the folks at teehan+lax for posting this PSD of the iPhone GUI elements. I do believe that will come in handy! http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=447

JLOOP March Madness Lunch - Round 1

greg — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:13:56 +0000

And for good measure, pool standing as of 5:15 pm on friday

1	No Wammies	21	-	-	-	-	Memphis	8	29
2	Meagher	20	-	-	-	-	Louisville	6	26
3	FullCourtneyPress	20	-	-	-	-	North Carolina	4	24
3	big money! *	20	-	-	-	-	Kansas	4	24
5	sister katie	19	-	-	-	-	Ohio St.	2	21
5	Tell me how my bracket tastes	19	-	-	-	-	Louisville	2	21
7	Hoop Dreams	18	-	-	-	-	North Carolina	2	20
7	Go Time	18	-	-	-	-	Duke	2	20
9	Greg’s Rolling Thunder	17	-	-	-	-	Pittsburgh	2	19
10	Barack’s Picks	16	-	-	-	-	North Carolina	2	18
10	waffles full of chicken	18	-	-	-	-	Louisville	0	18