April 2006 Archives

This tutorial is aimed at intermediate or advanced Web designers looking to make the leap into server-side programming. You'll be expected to be comfortable with simple HTML, as the tutorial makes use of it without much in the way of explanation. A teensy

Basic interface to Google Calender - provides todays events, and notifications of nearing events.

The following is an Introduction to Subversion screencast. It is targeted mainly at those who are new to version control, covering the conceptual ideas of version control, and then a walkthrough of examples from the desktop of OS X. The running time is ab

Great stories succeed because they are able to capture the imagination of large or important audiences.

the world's first HDTV show for the internet

With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they're actually of miniature models.

A Tilt-Shift lens is one where you can vary the plane against which the image falls. You've probably seen these, think of the old-timey bellows-lens with individual adjustments on those metal rails, so each of the four corners of the lens can be moved bac

Here is a simple Ruby class to interact with Google's Calendar

Plate movements that made North America in images.

Plate movements that made North America animates.

Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.

Over 320 mini pixel icons! All Free! These mini icons are designed at 14x14px with transparent background. They are specially designed for header or side navigation buttons. Feel free to use these icons for your site (personal or commerical).

Gallery Screamer, a Windows Screensaver Slideshow application for Gallery2

Gallery2Export for iPhoto is a plug-in for iPhoto 4 and 5 which allows you to export pictures directly into a Gallery2 gallery (http://gallery.sf.net/).

If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents.

I've been working on an extension for Dreamweaver that adds file support and code coloring for Ruby and Rails files. I posted a question about it on the Macromedia form and have had a couple people asking for a copy, so I've decided to make it official! I

So, it's really not much, but it does handle most things, and it's decent enough... It's Park Place, a clone of Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service.) It's written entirely in Ruby, with heaps of help from the Camping 4k web framework. Oh, and no SOAP supp

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot

Charles Simonyi's explication of the Hungarian notation identifier naming convention. (10 printed pages)