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I'm Brad Cooper, a user experience designer and front-end programmer with a passion for actualizing visions both visually and technically.
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The economy crashed, George Bush had shoes thrown at him, and we elected a new president. My wife and I bought a house, My daughter celebrated her 1st birthday, and my son was born healthy and hungry.
To celebrate all the work I’ve done on this site in the last year, here are 8 of my favorite posts of ’08.
Relieving inspiration overload
If you been following my feed for the last few days you would have noticed that I’ve been pushing a lot of new art. I plan to actually do this every day until Christmas, so hopefully you’ll enjoy looking at them…
Google knows when I've been sleeping and knows when I'm awake.
Google knows I’ve been sleeping because they keep trends on everything about my feeds. Like what day of the week I read the most, how many I read in a month and, to my point, what time of day I do most of the reading. It makes me wonder how I can actually skim through that many items during a day…
The Inkscape Book (A Small Contribution to the Community)
Inkscape rocks! And now thanks to Floss Manuals and many contributors from the open source community, you can get your hands on a physical copy of the new Inkscape Book.
The Importance of Our Public Domain (and Why I'm Giving Away Some of My Work)
It’s important to our culture that we stop putting such crazy restrictions of copyright on works of art. To join the cause, I’m releasing a number of my portfolio pieces under the creative commons license…
Unobtrusive Expand and Collapse Navigation
Create a vertical navigation that will expand and collapse to show and hide sub-navigation using only unordered lists and as few class/id names as possible…
Forcing New Windows on Users Script
Launch new windows for PDFs and External Websites without having to add anything into my (x)HTML – a pure behavior that should be separated from my core structure. There have been many attempts at tutorials on this, but I’ve never been happy. Here is my attempt – check out the finished demo.
Shorten document.getElementById
Do you write document.getElementById or document.getElementsByTagName too many times in your javascript to count? How about shortening them into their own easy to use functions?…
Using Google’s new Feed API, I wanted to be able to read in a single feed that pulls all of my blog, twitter, del.icio.us and digg posts…