January 2012
1 post
July 2011
1 post
NDA? OK.
In response to a discussion on twitter between myself, @toxinide (Fabio Basille) and @dezinezync (Nikhil Nigade) I thought I’d right up this blog post.
Fabio had tweeted saying “I never like signing NDAs, if you want to hire me you should trust me as well, it’s my job after all… :/”. It is an understandable dislike, signing contracts, especially those that seem to insinuate that you...
June 2011
1 post
An email re: mobile me
A good friend of mine just emailed me this, if any of you are interested…
Hey Zak!
I was totally just creeping your twitter page, and I saw you tweet about customizing outgoing mail to use your zak@zaksoup.com email…and I just wanted to let you know that on the server side of things, Apple has disabled that for now. (and the only true way to get email to come from your domain is to have...
May 2011
1 post
Valiocon
Every now and then you see something or meet somebody and you just can’t help but get really happy. That happened this weekend at Valiocon. I’m still smiling. I just had an awesome time with all those incredibly talented folks.
I’ll have a full writeup of my thoughts tomorrow.
<3
April 2011
3 posts
Connecting to MongoHQ with PHP
It’s actually deceptively simple.
The standard PHP mongo pecl extension goes like this: $databaseVariable = new Mongo(“mongodb://[urlwheremongoishosted].com”);
With MongoHQ it’s basically that form. You must know a couple of things first. The Server your database is hosted on, the port it’s on, and the database user and password. For example, my app’s databse...
I got a job!
Sorta, but still, A JOB! WOOHOO.
Thus, I am incredibly pleased to announce I am now a “Web Developer Intern” with Participatory Culture Foundation. They make Miro (it’s awesome!) and this new thing called Universal Subtitles. If anything go check out Unisubs. It’s an awesome way to blow off a few minutes of boredom, and you’re contributing to a great project!
...
Bloggers Block
I haz it.
March 2011
2 posts
The dickbar shouldn't have surprised anybody.
It’s simple really, twitter needs to make money. So far you’ve been using a free service. This free service has no paid version, and no benefits for donors or paid members. The ONLY revenue that the service has is from advertisers.
The question is not “how dare twitter add what amounts to an advertisement to my FREE twitter app” but “how dare we complain about...
An apology and some justification walk into a bar
Well I did it. I achieved the status of “guy who pissed people off” that is generally reserved for n00bs and assholes. Since I don’t consider myself to be one of the other (although that is certainly up to debate by you fine folks) I decided to write a little blog post about why I said what I said and apologize to those who I accidentally insulted.
@zaksoup OH WOW srsly i just...
February 2011
1 post
When Honest = Douchebag, You're Doing It Wrong.
I must admit, I’m rather disappointed that I’ve had to get to the point where I’ve experienced this phenomena enough that I am annoyed enough to write a blog post. If you’re at all familiar with how I blog then you’ll know: I don’t. Basically my blog is where I sporadically write about things that most people don’t give a shit about. Thus, I continue my...
December 2010
2 posts
My real posterous
If you read this you should go subscribe to soundsoup.posterous.com as I will be closing down my zaksoup posterous for now. Posted via email from zaksoup’s posterous | Comment »
Begging
I beg for a lot of shit, quite often. Most of the time, I jest. Now, I am serious. On tuesday an external hard drive of mine that due to a slightly strange situation was the only piece of equipment that had my work and composition files on it was destroyed. The quote for repair is over $1000 and I don’t have that money right now. I have also been saving up to buy myself a new instrument....
July 2010
1 post
Steve Jobs on Trailers Rejection
grantjonah:
Spencer Schoeben (who’s dad used to be close with Steve, which is probably the only reason he replied) sent an email to Steve Jobs (along with a dozen other people on Twitter) about the rejection of Trailers, and to our surprise, he responded. And excuse the subject line, Spencer saw Steve with his dog once. Emails are in order from oldest to newest. Read More
June 2010
2 posts
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: iPhone 4 and mobile web app... →
Let’s say you’ve got a mobile web app, such as my own Glyphboard. Since it’s built using no images whatsoever - I rely on CSS effects instead - it looks great on the new iPhone’s mindblowing Retina display.
Well, there is one image, of course - the app icon. If you’ve read my post on the…
Musicians will find this funny.
breakthetrend:
Sweet Child O’ Mine (Swing Version) by plamere
(via jhnmyr)
May 2010
3 posts
Soupr + Equili =
Remember yesterday when I told you about this guy who was an amazing designer and programmer? Well, his name is Martin Sorensen and he’s amazing.
“So, Zak, what’s the dealio here?” you ask.
Well, let me splain you. Martin is an amazing designer and developer from Copenhagen Denmark and for the past year has been working on Equili, his own URL Shortener and Media host...
The future of Soupr.
So. Hey. It’s been a while. Yeah. Soupr. Soooooo. Um, Lets start with some history.
I started work on Soupr about six months ago as a project to really get myself confortable with PHP and MySQL, as well as learn the ins and outs of developing software in general. It quickly became apparent to me that people other than I were interested in using it, which surprised me. As such, I expanded the...
Adding CSS3 properties to CSSEdit's... →
Today, MacRabbit pushed out the first update for CSSEdit since early 2008, which had me hopeful that they’d updated the automatic syntax completion to match that of Espresso. Alas, I was unsurprised to find that they hadn’t.
After searching Twitter to find out what the actual changes were…
March 2010
4 posts
The Zak Soup Center for Designers Who Can't Code...
Part 3: CSS IS TEH COOLZ
So you’ve built your really basic html site using the syntax we learned in lessons one and two…
Now you want to make everything look reaaaaaly awesome. The first thing you have to do is create a new file. this file, rather than having the extension ‘.html’ will be ‘.css’ and therefor be called a CSS file. duh.
You must link your...
The Zak Soup Center for Designers Who Can't Code...
Part 2: Digging Deeper…
If you’ve looked at the source of a website you might sometimes see something that looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
A doctype is what lets the browser know how to take your code and turn it into a visual site. As different...
The Zak Soup Center for Designers Who Can't Code...
A while back I was working with Matthew Reakus on a website and I found out that he didn’t know how to code HTML. This was news to me: a designer couldn’t code HTML? As I become more and more a part of the “design community” I realized that this wasn’t just Matthew, it was many designers. They could design awesome stuff, but couldn’t code the simplest HTML and CSS web page. I decided to remedy...
February 2010
2 posts
MyNameIsRaj on Humility →
I started icon design in November of last year. It has been quite the ride. I love it, but I’ve found that so many designers lack one trait:
humility.
What is humility? It’s a form of modesty; a form of understatement. You’re perfectly entitled to have no humility, but when you build an ego, you…
“THIS IS A QUOTE”
– Zak Soup
January 2010
2 posts
Apple Tablet: The Concept UI
This is mostly awesome, and a little bit sexy.
graphicpeel:
With all of the rumors going around about the new Apple Tablet, I thought I would take a stab at the UI. The past two days I’ve put together a mockup of the “homescreen” by combining Snow Leopards UI with the iPhone OS. I also used the rumored information along with some of my own predictions.
View the full resolution UI
Similar to...
To the authors of the various small file hosting...
Hopefully, Soupr will solve some of these problems.
Great rant Keir!
keiransell:
I was going to tweet this rant, but after typing the introduction, realised that it would take a barrage of tweets, which in turn would only irritate anyone who follows me.
This rant is targeted at the authors of the billion or so small file hosting services.
I’m not talking about Rapidshare and the like, but...
December 2009
2 posts
ELO Is Awesome
Some more great music for you to feed to your ears. They deserve it.
Today's Song.
This is one of my all time favorite songs. Of all time.
September 2009
2 posts
Zaksoup Skin for Tumblr up and (almost) running!
This is mostly just a test to see if the zaksoup tumblr skin works right, and I see no reason why it shouldn’t. My next thing to do is see if I can get tumblr photos working with FancyBox. Or at least get an easy workflow to convert photos in posts to FancyBox photos. I’m not sure If i’ll want to right a script to create thumbs or just do them myself.
-Zak
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