Interwebs, mark today as the beginning of Riot Riot’s new adventure of using our framework!
Simple PHP Progress Bar
The other day i was looking to create a simple progress bar for a test application. So this is what i came up with in. Keep in mind this is nothing super intelligent or sophisticated. Continue reading »

Riot Riot in Lake Tahoe
I am currently taking a break from my home office in Los Angeles to travel around the state of California. Continue reading »

Flickr API and PHP, display images!
Flickr in the past couple years has really turned into a great service. PHP too has been a vital item to internet development! Now lets make them play nice together to grab some of your recent images in your flikr account! Continue reading »

Apple: Magic Mouse
… and there was one mouse to rule them all Continue reading »

Random Illustrator: Outlines
The Pen Tool is quickly becoming my favorite Weapon of Choice. Today I doodled up a photo of myself that we might use for our “Who We Are” section. If you decide to create a neat traced image, take your time, and add as much detail as you can! Continue reading »

CSS3: Rounded Corners
CSS3 has a few very useful features, such as: Rounded Corners. If you are using a CSS3 compatible browser, you will notice our current version of our site uses many rounded corners. They are all done with CSS3. Continue reading »

PHP & MySQL Query Result Loops
Static content is dying, but dynamic sites are emerging left and right. Lets focus on using PHP and merge it with mySQL so we can pull some dynamic data!

Random Photoshop
Jon and I were trying to make tilt-shift images. This isn’t quite there.. Continue reading »

Canon S90: First Impressions
The Canon S90 is awesome. Continue reading »

Apple Store Success Story
My Apple Bluetooth Keyboard experienced some technical difficulties over the winter holidays. For two weeks I was coding without a V on my keyboard. I had two options. 1. Press the rubber nub. 2. Press the V on my laptop. Trivial yes, but when you are typing <div></div> many times a day, it becomes a real pita. Continue reading »

10 Reasons Philip Should Go In Space Likes 2010
2010. Holy smokes. How did we get here? As my friend Emilie said to me today, “Where is my flying car?” I kind of feel like the best thing to come from the 2000’s was the iPhone and it kills me to say it. Certainly technology has made amazing advancements, but then we have things like this totally awesome glossy laptop screen I’m using (Thanks Steve!). [Ed. Note: that was sarcasm my friends.] But I digress. 2010 is going to kick butt for 10 reasons Continue reading »

Open Atrium: The Coolest Thing Since Sliced Bread
Riot Riot is now using Open Atrium as its Intranet and as a collaboration tool with customers. Continue reading »

Nikon D60 (update)
For the longest time, I’ve been on forums with people posting beautiful and amazingly composed pictures. I’ve always wanted to be that “one” too, so last Sunday i broke down to buy a Professional (at least to me) camera. To justify it more, it will be used here on RIOTRIOT to further expand our capabilities. Continue reading »

Clean URLs on Media Temple’s Grid-Service (gs)
Noticing the amount of questions of “clean urls” being brought up on Media Temple’s Grid Server platforms, made a point that there should be a clean and easy write up to get this working without having lots of foreknowledge about the PHP/Apache system. This mainly applies to any site running a content management system, such as Drupal which this write up mainly focuses on! Continue reading »

Test Multiple MAMP Vhosts With Parallels XP
This tutorial is based on the presumption that you have successfully installed MAMP on your Mac and are running multiple vhosts. If you have not done this yet, please see this link. Continue reading »




