Archive for August, 2009

Mediasalt.com article post

by Brad Huss on August 28, 2009 in Mediasalt, Web with No comments

I consider it a privilege and honor to have been asked to write an article for Mediasalt.com. I was asked a couple weeks ago, and got the article to my good friend Cleve, but he thought it might be better if I could polish it up a bit to fit the format for their “Friday Four.” So, I rewrote the article this past week, only using a small snippet of my original thoughts, and I am glad to know that today was decided to be published.

It might not be a big deal to have the article posted, and doubtful it will draw a tremendous following back to my little piece of the web, but I am honored to be associated with a great group of Christian men who share a common desire and passion for Christ and anything dealing with the Internet or technology in general.

Cleve and Eric, thanks for the opportunity to contribute to MediaSalt.com! I look forward to the next opportunity!

article link: http://www.mediasalt.com/2009/08/28/friday-four-professional-photography-tools/

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mp3 player

by Brad Huss on August 27, 2009 in Web with No comments

(This one goes out to all my “techno junkies”, web designers out there or anyone who has a website and would like to add the feature of a STREAMING AUDIO PLAYER.)

I have been on a crusade of sorts for the past several months to find and locate a functional option to offer to my freelance website projects that desire an audio player. I have come across one most recently for WordPress, and it works for my client, but I want to “jazz” it up a bit for my personal website. So, in my efforts yesterday, I think I might have found one that does just the trick. It is non-obtrusive, hides elegantly at the bottom of my website, and even offers the feature to pop-up a window and listen to the songs I have loaded to my website. If no pop-up action is desired, no worries, it plays ever so nicely at the bottom. You can skip to the next song, rewind to a song selection – but the pop-up selection really provides the best control to make the manual selection of songs. I am no longer limited to the songs I can load. As long as I have web storage, I can load the songs to Streampad.

As you can see from the screenshot, this is solid option and it visually appealing.

The only drawback to Streampad – is it is powered by AOL. I must admit, I have been with AOL since my first computer back in 1996, just after high school and my first year in college. I rarely, if ever, use AOL anymore, but this looks like a nifty feature and I give credit to AOL. Nice work AOL!

Stress load

by Brad Huss on August 25, 2009 in Web with No comments

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For those that need a resource to test the stress load of your website, a good site to try is Load Impact (http://loadimpact.com). As you can see from the results above, bradhuss.com is on the recommended upswing of the “bell curve.” It might not be the most ideal, but it does indicate that as more clients come onto the website, my current server is able to handle the load without significant delay.