With a baby boy on the way (due in early June 2010), I decided to start looking for fun stuff for my lil dude. I thought that maybe I’d have to wait a few years to unleash him on the world, but lo and behold there’s some seriously badass gear for infants and toddlers! [...]
Niall Kennedy posted a now-famous article about using some browser trickery to determine what websites a user on your site has visited. I’ve taken that concept and created a module that can be used with the Dojo Toolkit javascript framework.
It provides two methods that you can use in your code, isVisited and isAnyVisited.
One important [...]
The Python Imaging Library (PIL) offers easy photo manipulation from python scripts. There’s some handy sample code on effbot.org that demonstrates how to alter an image’s palette to generate a sepia tone effect. It first desaturates the image, then applies a new palette based on a linear ramp.
I’ve cleanup up that sample code [...]
Here’s a little script-fu that can help determine how many lines of code were added vs. deleted for a single Subversion commit.
#!/bin/bash
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "usage: $0 revision"
exit
fi
REV=$1
# Execute a svn diff on the revision, and search the output for deleted lines
# (begin with a [...]
One of the greatest things about Flex and Air is the low barrier to entry for us software geeks. There’s nothing stopping any non-flash software dev from writing some kickass desktop apps. There’s no reason you have to buy anything to start writing, testing, and distributing Adobe Air apps. You don’t need [...]
