First, let's take a look at the website for a VCA Animal Hospital. http://www.vcahospitals.com/alameda-east Next, we'll take a look at a veterinary website in the UK. http://petany.co.uk/east/home.html As you may have noticed, these two websites look remarkably similar. I developed the VCA website while working at the Designory. This website from the UK has no [...] Daniel MacDonald
Aug 012011
First, let's take a look at the website for a VCA Animal Hospital. http://www.vcahospitals.com/alameda-east Next, we'll take a look at a veterinary website in the UK. http://petany.co.uk/east/home.html As you may have noticed, these two websites look remarkably similar. I developed the VCA website while working at the Designory. This website from the UK has no [...] 
I posted my plug-in to the official jQuery Plug-in repository and the source is hosted on Google Project Hosting. The latest releases can be found in either location, this blog may or may not contain the latest version. The jQuery Plasma Plug-in now has an official project page, which will always contain the latest releases [...] 
While playing around with an 8x8 LED matrix connected to an Arduino through a Color Shield, I wanted to gain a better understanding of the plasma function in the demo. Since I'm a bit more comfortable with JavaScript than C/C++, I figured I would translate the plasma code into JavaScript and play with some settings. [...] 
Facebook has a new security feature that makes me feel so secure. Feb 282011
This is a test of placing a YouTube video as the background of a web page.
A friend was asking me about this, because he had seen it on a couple or websites recently. So, I started investigating, and found jQuery Tubular which seemed to do the trick. Now, a word about methodology, I have nothing against jQuery plug-ins, but as a former plug-in author, I know a simple, neat plug-in will bloat out of control with feature requests. So, I generally look at the code, and pull out the functionality that I need, and then rewrite the code for my purposes.
Feb 242011
Thank you, Intel, Universal Studios and the FCC for HDPC. HDPC is a content protection scheme developed after the Blu-Ray spec that will render your Blu-Ray player useless for HDPC discs (such as those from Universal). Movie studios and recording companies have known that content can be perfectly pirated from a digital source since the [...]
Feb 242011
This JavaScript tool converts RGB colors (values of 0-255 for each red, green, blue) into hexadecimal notation (#1a2b3c). Feb 222011
danielpmacdonald.com has just moved to WordPress in an effort to better present the goals (if any) of this site. Please stand by as content from the old danielpmacdonald.com and projectatomic.com sites are migrated into the new content management system. Feel free to comment (they are moderated), and comment spammers can bite my shiny metal ass.
Jan 232011
The URL Encoder/Decoder is a handy little tool for converting plain text into a format that can be placed in a URL, most likely, the query string.
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