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This is the textual home of the folk behind Net Perspective. We write about what’s most interesting to us at the moment. Right now, that’s This Thing Called Scroll Follow.
Archive for 2008
Initially it was developed to solve a problem for a client. I took the opportunity to refine what I knew about writing plugins for jQuery and made it into something we could release into the wild.
Posted In: jquery, open source, scroll follow, the kitchen
Being Perfect
Friday, September 19th, 2008
The saying goes, “Nobody’s perfect.” Too often, this idea that perfection cannot be obtained is used as an excuse for mediocrity. In response, I ask you to consider a very recent example of perfection.
Posted In: process, theory
At Net Perspective we created an image editor in flash that we just released for sale called Image Plane. While Image Plane has already been creatively introduced and documented quite thoroughly, I wanted to go over the thought process in designing a…
Posted In: oop, php, software design
Perhaps not as gifted as more experienced lyricists, but I’ll give this ago anyway. In honor of the release of our online image editor:
Posted In: admin tool, CMS tool, cropping, flash, image application, image editing, Image Plane, image upload
It’s not that I didn’t enjoy the book. I’ve actually already purchased the next in the series. But, after all the hoopla, I had expected a more satisfying experience.
Posted In: design, process
Office Space
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Task At Hand: Venturing out of Systek Computing in search of a new office space that represents Net Perspective
Posted In: office space
Creativity can be a lot like money. Some people have a seemingly unending supply while others possess very little. Money, like creativity, is endowed with no inherent moral value. It can be spent doing great works or frittered away like so many. . . um. . . fritters.
Posted In: creativity, design
I’ve been talking a lot about automation as of late which led to my posting a generic, overload broad view of the tools and utilities I use here at Net Perspective. However, I wanted to go into detail about my real world uses of a particular tool, Phing.
Posted In: automation, best practices, dbdeploy, deployment, phing, php, rsync, ssh
Issues of transparency and marketing are certainly at the forefront, but as my colleague alluded to, the overriding purpose of this space is still largely amorphous. The simple answer is that we have things we want to communicate to the (for now) faceless public and a vehicle for doing so became a necessity.
Posted In: design, introduction, publishing, purpose
It is quite possibly the greatest day in the history of the internet, by our powers combined: this is the Net Perspective Blog.
Posted In: company blog, introduction, social networking