Over the long weekend I had the opportunity to head over to an abandoned factory in Dayton that is in the early stages of demolition. The Howard Paper Company building burned in 2009 and there were still quite a few charred remains lingering. It was a neat building, though pretty eerie in spots, that resulted in some decent images.
A giant freakin claw. It was a long but super fun process. And now you can wait in a long but super fun line to play the biggest claw ever at www.thesantaclaw.com
I had the opportunity to take some head shots for local photographer Melissa Cales last week. Shooting another photographer was a little unsettling, makes you almost doubt your moves. But it was a great fall night for a quick half hour shoot, and the sunset didn’t disappoint.
After a few hours of trying to get the paypal IPN verification process to work I was at my wits end. According to their code samples all that is required is to loop over the form.fieldNames variable. Sounds simple enough. But after hours of trying to get it to work, different combinations of lCase, urlEncodedFormat, etc. I know that coldfusion organizes the FORM structure in an alpha order by key, but the fieldnames should stay in their original order.
I finally thought to look at the GETHTTPREQUESTDATA().content, the variable order didn’t match what was in the form.fieldNames list.
First try after changing the verification string it worked like a champ, hopefully this post can save someone some grief.
<cfset postData = GETHTTPREQUESTDATA()>
<cfset verifyURL = "https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_notify-validate&#postData.content#">
I went to the Ohio Edison plant today to see if I could get some photos of the demolition in progress. I couldn’t get quite as close as I hoped but still managed to get some shots. I heard there were photos taken inside the building before demolition, if I can ever find them I’ll post a link.
Went to Carriage Hill Park yesterday and walked around. It’s a nice place, it was larger than I expected. I didn’t get to see the whole park but walked through the working farm and on a few of the trails. If you are looking for an outdoor trek north of Dayton give it a try.
Took these at home because I needed to shoot something and couldn’t think of any thing else. Though “Morning Ritual” is a little laughable if you have seen my face since the 7th grade.
A few shots from last weekend’s trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park with the family. It was a gorgeous weekend, fantastic weather and got to spend some time with the family.
I have seen this done well and done poorly, but I wanted to try it out. After trying it I added a few more in the “poor” category. But it was still a fun side trip from my usual strobes.
Side note, may want to wear your ninja outfit so your Casper legs don’t show up in some of the shots.
After reading some about embedding fonts I decided to try my hand at embedding fonts in CSS using ColdFusion. I was pretty pleased with the result. This will not work in IE since Microsoft chooses not to recognize the @font-face property in CSS, for more information on a possible work around for that I recommend reading Jon Tan’s post. I think the hard part of this right now is finding the right font with the right usage license.
Example (Sorry IE…)
Since this is wordpress I used an external style sheet, the code in which is pretty simple.
<cffile action="readBinary" file="#expandPath('./IDAutomation.otf')#" variable="myBinaryFile">
<cfset myFont = toBase64(myBinaryFile)>
<cfcontent type="text/css" reset="yes">@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
@font-face {
font-family: "IDAutomation";
src: url("data:font/opentype;base64,<cfoutput>#myFont#</cfoutput>");
}
.barcode {
font-family: "IDAutomation", serif;
}
