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Creating Constellation: Constraints and Collaboration

Donald Richardson is a Systems Developer at Second Story. Here he chronicles his experience working on the Constellations project we recently completed for SapientNitro. Second Story was approached by SapientNitro with an opportunity to create an …

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HOW Interactive Design Conference Presentation

By popular demand, we’ve posted Julie Beeler’s talk on multi-disciplinary design collaboration delivered earlier today at the HOW Interactive Design Conference in San Francisco. The slideshow is posted here. Large-scale interactive projects often …

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Analyzing Chocolate

At Second Story, we are proud of our ability to organize and synthesize massive amounts of client data and content. It’s our job to understand the particulars as well as see the big picture, and to transmute raw data and content into vivid interac…

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Cascades are Blooming

Excitement is rising along with the construction of the University of Oregon alumni center interactives (also known as the “cascades”). The team knuckled-down in Eugene this week installing hardware, banging out code, collaborating with other team…

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Making Soap

Here at Second Story, we pride ourselves on pushing the edges of existing technologies. But we also know how to create things using old-school methods. Back in our Media Lab – a place where multi-touch tables and depth sensing reactive displays re…

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#1 Cub Scout

Sir Walter Pancakes. Halloween 2010.

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David Brewer dropping cloud computing science

—Thomas Reynolds, Front-end Web Developer

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Debugging is Hard: Part 2

Printing custom fonts in IE8 shifts characters 3 positions down when the print stylesheet is missing the custom font declaration.

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Studio Dog Bio #1

Full Name: Sir Walter Pancakes Identifying features: Soulful, brown eyes and an amazing underbite Likes: Rolling on the ground, stealing toys from Abby, jumping on Bruce, and above all else, belly rubs Dislikes: Rain, cold weather, and above all e…

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Debugging is Hard

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