The image below was taken today (March 19, 2011) at the Church of St. Alphonsus in Rome, Italy. This icon is the original icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and depicts Mary holding the child Jesus, with two angels on either side of them.

For a recent project, I had to make some rough LUX measurements (LUX is a more international standard for light measurement than candlepower, which is traditionally used in the U.S.) of an environment to help determine what kind of video cameras to use. Problem was, all I had was a spot meter—an incident light meter for film/digital photography, that would give me a reading of, say "1/15 second exposure at f/5.6 and ISO 10

You can purchase the CNL app for $0.99 here , or read more about the app (and see some pretty screenshots) on the Catholic News Live website. Catholic News Live delivers the latest Catholic News to your computer and iPhone, and pulls in news from over 50 different Catholic sources, every five minutes.

The App's highlight features are the ability to view

Just a little bit of an overview of a couple things I'm working on / where I've been:

• Super-top-secret... er... not-so-secret iPhone app about to be released I've been working on a Catholic News Live app for a couple weeks now, and I've submitted version 1.0.0 to the App Store—it's just awaiting approval before it will be for sale for the low, low price of

Or... "Best Practices of In-App Web Browsers"

Being the usability nut that I am, I have decided that my goal of making a perfect in-app browser for various iPhone apps is an impossible task. But, judging from what I've been able to do so far, and from many different Web View examples I've seen from around the web, there are some basics that every in-app browser should get right.

I'll start by showing the in-app

The sparsely-attended ' Scaling the Drupal Community ' session, led by webchick and heyrocker, was one of the few sessions I've attended at DrupalCon Chicago that held my interest throughout. And, since a few people on IRC asked me to post my session notes, I thought I'd do so and put them up on the Planet.

If you, like me, thought there were too many awesome sessions during this timeslot that you decided to go to another one, then this post is for youâ

I couldn't pass up this photo op. Foggy nights in downtown Chicago are great!

I'm in Chicago for the week for DrupalCon Chicago 2011 —it's been a great conference, though the weather's been pretty stiff. Maybe I'll have time to waltz around the city a little more tomorrow evening...

The Parishes view (and subviews) shows all parishes (about 200) in the Archdiocese on a map (MKMapView), as annotations, and when a user taps on an annotation's details, he is shown the parish's address

I'm happy to announce that my first iPhone App— Catholic STL — has been accepted by Apple for the iTunes App Store, and is available for free starting today!

tl;dr : Right in all the right ways, this is one of the two tripod mounts I keep in my bag.

There are finally a plethora of different iPhone 4 tripod mounting solutions on the market, and this is a very, very good thing. You can browse other Reviews on my website to find some examples of other great tripod mounts—some very nice for specific purposes, others that are only marginally better than duct-taping your iPhone to a