{"id":201,"date":"2006-10-12T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T16:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/201\/the-perfect-mix"},"modified":"2006-10-12T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T16:15:21","slug":"the-perfect-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/201\/the-perfect-mix","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kim of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noodlesoft.com\/\">Noodlesoft<\/a> started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noodlesoft.com\/blog\/\">blogging<\/a> last month after I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noodlesoft.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/hello-world\/\">bugged him for months<\/a> to do so. I do this kind of nagging with several people I know. I am hoping to improve the Mac blogging landscape by encouraging more development-oriented writing. <\/p>\n<p>\nWith Paul, it looks like I&#8217;ve succeeded. His latest article is a wonderful write-up on achieving the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noodlesoft.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/11\/more-fun-with-gradients\/\">perfect gradient fill<\/a> for an arbitrary path. He observes that simply applying a gradient to the bounding box can cause undesirable effects, depending on the shape being filled and angle of the gradient. Interesting!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI didn&#8217;t write the article, and I probably wouldn&#8217;t have figured out the trigonometry myself, but I can still take a little pride in that entry. In fact I get to take little tiny bit of credit for every great post he ever writes. I&#8217;m a blogging venture capitalist! If I convince enough people to write good stuff, then I can stop writing and just point people at their entries. Then I&#8217;ll have &#8220;really made it,&#8221; and I can get back to programming full-time!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPaul&#8217;s post describes how to perfectly mix colors in an arbitrary shape, but it also follows a sort of perfect mix for technical blogging. He probably followed these steps subconsciously, but let&#8217;s identify them for posterity:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Identify a problem related to your own experience.<\/li>\n<li>Explain the problem in simple terms that non-specialists can understand.<\/li>\n<li>Allude to but gloss over the difficult steps you went through in solving the problem (doing the trigonometry).<\/li>\n<li>Present a working conclusion that everybody can share and enjoy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\nBonus points for pretty pictures with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/applications\/omnigraffle\/\">OmniGraffle<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI strongly encourage you to check out Paul&#8217;s blog if you haven&#8217;t already. It&#8217;s developing quite nicely, and I know where I&#8217;ll be turning the next time I have to fill shapes with gradients. I won&#8217;t be doing the trig myself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kim of Noodlesoft started blogging last month after I bugged him for months to do so. I do this kind of nagging with several people I know. I am hoping to improve the Mac blogging landscape by encouraging more development-oriented writing. With Paul, it looks like I&#8217;ve succeeded. His latest article is a wonderful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cocoa","category-programming","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}