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

Turn off Annoying Auto-corrections in Outlook 2011

Outlook 2011 has this annoying feature where it italicizes words surrounded by underscores. For instance, if you were to type _test_, Outlook would change this to test, sans underscores. As a developer this is VERY annoying. To turn it off, go to Outlook’s preferences pane and go to the AutoCorrect panel. The outdated, typewriter-era features [...]

Things I learned and did in 2012

Blog’s been quiet for a while, here’s a list of things I’ve learned and some significant experiences from 2012: Used Vagrant to spin up Ubuntu VirtualBox VMs on the fly Learned to provision LAMP stacks with Chef Learned MySQL command-line tools such as the REPL and mysqldump Learned how to use ack and sed command-line [...]

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 [...]