Peter Chester
On occasion I have been known to speak at conferences on the topics of Freelancing, WordPress, and the meaning of life, though I tend to spend much of my performance energy on my music. Perhaps one day I will figure out how to merge the two without having to write songs about debugging Javascript.
When I'm not on a conference call or focussed on my laptop, I can often be found embarking on creative adventures with my family or daring surf escapades with Shane.
Peter's Tweets
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W00t! Loving the #WordPress plugin repo favorites feature!!! @markjaquith - who put that together?3 hours ago
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Anyone know of a #WordPress #GIT status plugin for displaying GIT information for a project?16 days ago
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Super stoked to see our eventbrite add on get launched. Even if it is a soft launch. http://t.co/Kok33yjG21 days ago
Peter's Posts
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PDA Etiquette and the Evolution of the Smoke Break
I’ve always thought it was ironic when smokers “go out for a breath of fresh air”. Recently, I found myself sympathizing with the plight of the proverbial smoker when I came under heavy fire from my friends for answering my iPhone email in front of them. So I left the company of friends to go outside and communicate with people by myself. Having skipped many of Shane’s important emails in my attempts to skim read, …
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What Are You Afraid Of?
Who would have thought that the best way to overcome my fear of big waves was to go surfing at night? After a year of surfing three-foot waves on a ten-foot surf board, Shane started to push me to try bigger waves and increasingly challenging situations. However, the idea of a wall of water threatening to hit me with my 10 foot surf board was hard to swallow. I liken the feeling to balancing on …
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Bag of Tricks
Professor Peter Elsea completely changed my view of what a person can do when he taught me that skill is nothing but a bag of tricks. The thing is, just about anyone can express music to some degree. Anyone can make a picture, or cook a meal. It might not taste very good, but perhaps that’s simply due to a dearth of tricks in the cuisine bag.
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Informal Contract
So it just dawned on me, after having spent yet another weekend on this project, that maybe there should be a cap on the time or the number of revisions allowed within the scope of the bid. Oh wait, we do have a cap in our contract. So (scratching my head), why am I now working on revision #4,536,136? Oh, that’s right, because this is for the one client that we have for whom we …
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Word of The Day: Vague Deadline
vague dead.line [vÄg dêd'lîn] noun An unclear time limit. Often implemented with the intent of relaxing time boundaries only to produce an impending sense of doom. A clearly stated deadline that has been utterly ignored and therefor requires de-emphasis. Usage: “Yeah, we figured 3pm sharp was a vague deadline and that it would be OK to get it to you at 6pm tomorrow.”
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Photoshop Broke My Color
I’m on a Mac Powerbook. For months, I’ve been having trouble saving images for the web in Adobe Photoshop. What would happen is I would File > Save For Web and Devices… and find that many of the colors are de-saturated in the preview window. What happened to my colors???
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Word of The Day: Permabeta
per.ma.beta [pûr'mÉ™-bÄ'tÉ™] adjective An indefinite state of incompleteness. Often symptomatic of highly humble or insecure engineers or agile development and web 2.0. A state of endless anticipation for advance to a higher level. Usage: “Johny wanted to get to third base with Suzy for years. Realizing his relationship was permabeta, he dumped her for Sally 3.0″
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The Price of Simplicity
It can be hard to explain why a really simple UI design should cost more than a complex one. Here’s how I like to look at it: Good UI does the work for you.
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Our Type of Client
Last night at the Webbies Video Awards, Jennifer Daumler, Director of PR at Level3, asked me “what kind of clients do you look for?”
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Setting Keyboard Focus on Flex onLoad
When you refresh the browser with a flex app running fullscreen, obviously the flex app should be focused…. but it’s not Here’s a really easy way to set keyboard focus on your flex or flash embeded code. Basically, just paste the code below into the bottom of your html. After the page loads, this code gets called and sets the focus on your embeded swf.
