The Space Foundation supported my coworker designer/developer Luciana and I in a trip to New York to attend Do It with Drupal October 11 – 14, 2011, organized by the Drupal training experts Lullabot. Previously attending the 2009 event, this was something I was highly looking forward to revisiting. New York was amazing and overwhelming. [...]
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011Stylized QR Codes for Space Foundation
Thursday, July 7th, 2011With the Space Foundation moving to a new headquarters location in Colorado Springs, the marketing team designed and ordered fresh business cards. The new cards contain a cool new feature on the back of each card: a stylized, personalized QR Code. Contacts who receive the card may scan it with their smart phone camera using [...]
Generating Maps of Colorado Springs and Beyond
Sunday, May 8th, 2011After quite a bit of research, great Linux madness, and a couple gray hairs, I was able to install a map rendering server from scratch and start generating cool maps. The one pictured above is of my neighborhood in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Memorial Park and its lake can be seen to the bottom right. Inspired [...]
Text-To-Speech (TTS) Plugin for TinyMCE
Monday, March 7th, 2011The TTS Plugin for TinyMCE is a web based text-to-speech editor that visually formats text with pitch, rate, volume, emphasis, and breaks. It’s able to export basic SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) accepted by text-to-speech engines such as Cepstral voices, and accepted by web services like Voice Forge. NOTE: This plugin does not generate audio [...]
Exploring Live Solar Imagery
Saturday, January 1st, 20111/9/2011: This project has been archived, no longer grabbing live images from various sources for personal web hosting performance reasons. It now sits in the toolbox for future space endeavors when needed. My CEO dropped off a magazine before the holiday break with an article about monitoring live solar weather. What started as something interesting [...]
Homemade eCard for Christmas and New Years
Thursday, December 30th, 2010I made a homemade Flash Christmas and New Years Day eCard for family and friends. Have fun with it here and share with your friends!
Black Hole Porter Saves the World
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010John Sterling Vinson was commissioned by Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham to craft the Space Foundation’s first celebratory beer titled Black Hole Porter, making its debut at the team Halloween party. The porter was sweet but not too sweet, with a light nutty taste, and dark like a black hole. I loved it, and hope [...]
Brain Dump from Drupalcamp Colorado 2010
Monday, June 28th, 2010Image from drupalcampcolorado.org website Over 300 people attended Drupalcamp Colorado over the June 26-27 weekend, including myself and Space Foundation co-worker Luciana. For a mere $30 admission fee (unless waiting untill the last second), Drupal developers, designers, enthusiasts, and interested newcomers met for sessions, networking, and some pretty darn good food (Don’t forget the free [...]
National Space Symposium: New Website Design and Drupal Power
Saturday, January 30th, 2010A new website has been launched for the 26th National Space Symposium, the Space Foundation‘s largest event of the year. Designed, built, and managed in-house, the new website showcases agendas, speakers, exhibitors, co-sponsors, education programs, press, and The Broadmoor Hotel venue for the event. The National Space Symposium website has been a great team effort [...]
Do It With Drupal Seminar in New Orleans
Monday, December 14th, 2009I just got back from Do It With Drupal, a three day seminar held in New Orleans. IT WAS AMAZING! I was able to interact with roughly 200 developers from Canada to Sweden, who spoke the same Drupal talk. TONS of information was absorbed. I was able to get up to date on what’s going [...]
Play the French Can Can Using an Arduino and Buzzer
Sunday, October 25th, 2009While learning about the Arduino microprocessor and potential applications, I entered a tutorial contest with an “instructable” that teaches people how to play the Can Can with an Arduino and buzzer. It’s off the wall for sure, but as a result it may win some additional hardware? Check out the full tutorial here.
Three New Space Foundation Websites Powered by Drupal
Saturday, September 26th, 2009The Space Foundation Education website went live this week, showcasing one of the Space Foundation’s primary areas of focus, education! The site highlights the new Space Discovery Institute and courses and the Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy (check out the grand opening blog post). It features programs, resources, grants and scholarships for educators, content for students, [...]
Trecky Vocal Interface Gone Wrong the Right Way
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009It’s an experimental two-way (speech-to-text / text-to-speech) interface! Intended for a Dragon NaturallySpeaking “Do you Speak Dragon?” contest entry, this video transformed into a blooper reel. This was the first time I tried to record myself. The results were awful, but mashing together all the fun parts made posting worth while. Yes, a haircut is [...]
Mail Physical Post Cards and Letters from Your Website Using PHP
Thursday, May 14th, 2009PostfulMail PHP Class Send genuine snail mail letters and postcards using the PostfulMail PHP class (download below) and the Postful.com API. Upload images for postcards (jpg, png, gif), documents for letters (html, txt, pdf, doc, rtf, odt), then send mail automatically. Sweet!
Big TheSociety.com Update Went Live Today
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009The Society pushed a large updated to TheSociety.com today. The biggest updates include a revised navigation scheme lead by The Society Co-Founder Scott Berkley, two new products (The Global Bundle, and Personal Service Package) lead by Co-Founder Mike McFadden, lots of help everywhere from Mark Goebel and Joseph Sobin, and several visual updates, content additions, [...]
Preview of TheSociety.com Design Updates
Friday, May 1st, 2009TheSociety.com will be publishing a large update early next week! The biggest updates include a revised navigation scheme lead by The Society Co-Founder Scott Berkley, two new products and content lead by Co-Founder Mike McFadden, and several visual updates and content additions developed/designed myself. The biggest hit business-wise is The Global Bundle, with several “bundles” [...]
New Personal/Professional Website Launched!
Monday, April 20th, 2009While in the process of rebooting my professional identity, the need for a new website was extreme. After all, it represents my work. Previously an experimental blog and random place to upload other random toys, www.christopherstevens.cc has become my business website. Expect more shortly including twitter/blog integration, subscriptions, chat, a fun Flash intro that arrives [...]
The Society Launches New Wesite!
Monday, September 22nd, 2008At last, a new TheSociety.com is launched!! New stuff includes a new design and updated logo (yay for me), and a new “Vacation MatchMaker” tool that lets The Society assist visitors in finding vacation homes. That’s not all of course! Other features include support for charity, enhanced search capability, the ability to browse properties by [...]
August is gone. Awesomeness awaits!
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008What happened to August? Ah yes, it went into thesociety.com website. It’s almost time to go live! Everyone is working together this week to get final changes made and get it published. It’s awesome. More updates shortly! (and maybe a longer post)
Denver Webcam Image Change
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment changed their webcam image June 5th just after 12pm. This is known because the beautiful live image seen at the top of this page (at time of writing anyway) quit importing properly after that time, leaving me stuck in time for a while. The new image is [...]
There Goes Denver
Monday, March 31st, 2008Well, it looks like the live image of Denver went down. I guess it’s time for a new design! This one was very dull and awkward anyway. Have I been looking at it too ling? No. It’s dull.
The Society Website Updates
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008The Society went live with upgrades to thesociety.com last week. Exciting additions include a destinations directory, member-to-member messaging, community search, and a new home page. While there’s still much to do in the ever changing website, increased buzz about the company and site features has been very encouraging. The biggest item in last week’s publish [...]
The Society Evolves Part 1
Friday, November 9th, 2007The society evolves. So does thesociety.com! Now that The Society of Leisure Enthusiasts website is in beta, pressure increases to improve all aspects of the website and features. Helpful feedback from property owners, vacation rental managers, travelers, and fellow enthusiasts of leisure has helped the online vacation rental website change for the better. The first [...]
No Rockies Tickets For You
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007The waiting screen of death! Millions of visits combined with unprepared web preparations caused chaos across Denver today and yesterday as everyone was forced to buy world series tickets online. I’ve heard everything from constant cookie errors, page loading timeouts, and people getting in then getting kicked out after entering credit card info. Yesterday only [...]
Production Room
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005The World Prodigy Visitors Center is nearly complete! The core area of the center is the production facility. The room is designed to represent the inner aspects of my work through architectural symbols. Features of the production facility include a website display platform, a screen that explains the various parts of the room related to [...]
