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I Saved 15% on My Dissertation by Switching to APA

By John Dyer on June 30, 2020July 2, 2020

This time last year, I was in the throes of finishing my PhD thesis (American’s call it a dissertation), when I learned that I had made a major mistake. IContinue readingI Saved 15% on My Dissertation by Switching to APA

Export Stills from Adobe Premiere Pro using JavaScript

By John Dyer on April 13, 2017March 6, 2020

Most of the products in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of applications have a scripting API that allows you to write JavaScript to automate tasks like moving layers around, addingContinue readingExport Stills from Adobe Premiere Pro using JavaScript

Using CSS to Display Fonts for Greek and Hebrew, but not English

By John Dyer on September 30, 2016March 5, 2020

If you have a website that mixes Latin characters languages like English or Spanish with characters from a non-Latin language like Greek, Hebrew, or Arabic it usually requires a lot of extra CSSContinue readingUsing CSS to Display Fonts for Greek and Hebrew, but not English

Creating a Logo Background in Adobe Illustrator Using JavaScript

By John Dyer on March 21, 2016March 5, 2020

Today, my team was working on options for creating a backdrop like you see at red carpet events or press conference with repeating logos. In our case, we wanted somethingContinue readingCreating a Logo Background in Adobe Illustrator Using JavaScript

Coloring Hebrew Vowels and Accents in HTML/CSS

By John Dyer on May 18, 2013March 5, 2020

In a recent conversation with a Hebrew professor, we discussed adding color to Hebrew vowels and accents. If you’re unfamiliar, Hebrew is different from most Western languages in two mainContinue readingColoring Hebrew Vowels and Accents in HTML/CSS

This Site Best Viewed in Google Glass

By John Dyer on April 17, 2013March 5, 2020

You might have noticed that Google Glass is now shipping to early adopters and people who won the #ifihadglass competition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE
Google has also released their developer documentation, and this means we’re about to start hearing about a lot of cool, new apps that people are building for Glass. … Continue readingThis Site Best Viewed in Google Glass

Drawing 3D Objects and Buildings on Google Maps

By John Dyer on February 11, 2013March 5, 2020

As a web developer for a school, I’ve always enjoyed the challenge of creating a good campus map. The school I work for has a growing online seminary program to train pastors aroundContinue readingDrawing 3D Objects and Buildings on Google Maps

How to Create a Responsive, Retina-ready Website

By John Dyer on September 12, 2012March 5, 2020

My team and I at Dallas Theological Seminary just finished putting together a new site that has both a responsive layout and Retina graphics, and I thought it would beContinue readingHow to Create a Responsive, Retina-ready Website

HTML5 Audio Karaoke – a JavaScript audio text aligner

By John Dyer on June 1, 2012March 5, 2020

What it Does Based on some amazing work by my friend Weston Ruter, I’ve put together a little library that mashes together some text (usually some HTML) an audio sourceContinue readingHTML5 Audio Karaoke – a JavaScript audio text aligner

Cross-Browser Native Get/Set Properties in JavaScript

By John Dyer on May 2, 2012March 5, 2020

JavaScript Doesn’t Support Properties When I first created MediaElement.js a few years ago, I wanted to make a JavaScript object that fully mimicked the HTML5 Media API, but under the hood itContinue readingCross-Browser Native Get/Set Properties in JavaScript

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