The name’s David O’TrakounSay “Oat Raccoon” really fast..

I make really neat websites and apps 

that can integrate with popular APIs like , , YouTube, and flickr. I’m also a WordPress and Drupal developer. Need special effects in jQuery? I’ve got your back. Responsive design? This site’s an example.

If you need a freelance developer 

or consultant, I respond to business inquiries and you can find my resumé on LinkedIn.

Latest blog posts

Making a BrightCove video gallery

Update 12-19-2011: Noting that this example uses the Flash/JS API. It would be trivial to convert it to BrightCove’s “SmartAPI,” just replace the loadVideo method with loadVideoById, include the includeAPI parameter in the embed code, and copy whatever tiny tweaks to the variables from the SmartAPI code. In this post I’ll detail how to create [...]

Automatic torrenting in Linux / OSX

This is all hypothetical. Do this at your own risk. 12-10-2011 — updated blocklist script 12-07-2011 — added encryption and blocklists I’m writing based on an ArchLinux setup, but this all translates to any other Linux distro and OSX pretty easily. The Setup ArchLinux for the seedbox (or whatever distro you want). ShowRSS to create [...]

On working with Facebook for websites

When you click the like/send button as of September 2011, an iframe pops up The iframe is cut off if the like button is at the edge of a container with the “overflow: hidden” property. This prevents use of “overflow: hidden” for clear-fixing. The iframe is always opened to the bottom right, so it causes [...]