P’unk Avenue
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- 1168 E. Passyunk Aveneue
- Philadelphia PA 19147
- Phone: 215 755 1330
- hello@punkave.com
Because No One Should Have to Look out a Window
In the fine tradition of istwitterdown.com, isobamapresident.com and shouldiusetablesforlayout.com, I give you: isitrainingout.com! Geeky aside: NOAA weather feeds + CSV zipcode data + MaxMind's GeoLite City IP geolocation database + PHP's serialize function = love. Required notice: "This product…
Under the Surface
In Philadelphia, the cobblestone street and trolley tracks are only inches beneath the surface.
sfSyncContentPlugin: moving content without pain
Lorem Ipsum is fun and all, but there's nothing quite like real content when you need to duplicate a problem that a client is experiencing with their website. (Not that our websites ever have problems! That could never, ever…
Developer, Developer, Developer
We have not yet hired for the project manager/information architect/content strategist position, but we have an immediate need to add another developer to our team... P’unk Avenue is a web design and development team located in Philadelphia that creates…
A better strip_tags: pkHtml::simplify
Many web sites allow users to edit content via a rich text editor. And we all know what happens if the user pastes a Word document in there: the styles of the page wind up hopelessly munged. PHP coders can…
Be a P'unk
We are hiring! If you would like to join our team and you think you would be a good fit, we want to hear from you... Information Architect / Content Strategist / Project Manager P’unk Avenue is a web…
GTFS feeds: you can get there from here (and a free lunch)
As any Mainer will tell you, you can't get there from here. And as any Heinlein fan will tell you, you there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Much to the consternation of both, SEPTA has taken a…
How to add ON DELETE CASCADE to an existing MySQL table without dropping any existing data
You created a MySQL table with a foreign key reference... for instance, a user_id field that refers to a separate table of users. Then you realized you should have specified "ON DELETE CASCADE" when creating the table. Now, when you…
How to open Google Calendar (or any URL) on your Mac at scheduled times of day
We make heavy use of Google Calendar here at work. Unfortunately I rarely remember to look at it unless an alert has specifically been set up to get my attention. This morning I set up my Mac to open Google…
Freedom Press
Non-fiction writers love to incorporate snippets of French in their prose. These petits fours provide emphasis, adding cachet to otherwise dry sentences. They are often italicized to avoid confusion and help the reader with pronunciation. After all, their purpose…
You Will Be Visited By Three Ghosts
The present is experienced through the senses, mostly realtime, with some delay/buffering. The past and the future are experienced nonlinearly in the mind, via memory and extension/projection. The computer doesn't do much for the present. It, and our interaction…
Internet Explorer 6 to be ghetto-virtualized into oblivion
Microsoft will allow bass-ackwards XP-only applications, such as IE 6-only web apps, to run in emulation via Virtual PC as part of the regular Windows 7 desktop. That feature will apparently be standard in enterprise-class versions of Windows. I appreciate…
Criticism, journalism: things are tough/awesome all over
I enjoyed last night's Junto discussion on art criticism in Philadelphia but I'm puzzling over some fundamentals. The larger context went mostly unspoken. All journalism everywhere is in deep sheep dip right now because print newspapers are dying. At the…
The Art Criticism Junto
Thursday April 23, 2009 The discussion which will begin at 7pm. Food and drink at 6pm. Please join us next Thursday, April 23rd at 6pm for the Junto. This month we will be discussing the past, present, and future…
Sometimes, blogging is timeless
Sometimes Google doesn't exactly rush pell-mell to index your blog. And when Google does index your blog, sometimes they don't do it in a way that really helps your readers. To my mind, blogs have two kinds of readers: 1.…
Why People [I Know] Photograph
I talked with Isaac Schell after his recent opening about the motivation and inspiration for his pictures. At first he frame photography as a compulsion. A way to get an image out of his head. He later conceded that Garry…
IDES 322: Mapping
From the Google Lat Long Blog: As the news began to spread of the Red River's record-setting crest level, the first order of the day was to help get the word out to as many as possible. This was…
My Play History
For several years, I taught a Game Design course in the Multimedia department at UArts. To give this course more intellectual heft, I would say that play is essential to humans. I went so far as to say that…
svncampfire: keeping up with the chownses
We have a private chat room on campfire, an awesome group chat solution from 37signals. We also have lots of code— HTML, PHP, Ruby, C, whatever— checked into subversion repositories. Back in the day, all of our code lived in…
Art Happens Today
6207 Market Photographs by Isaac Schell Stockbridge Fine Art Print 319 N. 11th 4th floor Friday April 3rd, 5-10pm Let's talk about art. Isaac Schell is a Drexel photo graduate, and also my housemate. He shoots with a 4x5" portable…