My credit card company has a new site where you can win $10,000 if your idea is voted the monthly winner. I’m not too sure the risk/reward ratio is good enough to put your idea up on a public site (maybe lock down a trademark and submit some patents first).
My favorite show lately is The [...]
If your Rails app uses Rmagick to resize images on shared hosting you may have had your app shut down because of a RAM spikes (the spike can be > 40mb when processing an image > 2mb).
MiniMagick to the rescue!
MiniMagick accesses ImageMagick directly, similar to exec(’my ImageMagick command’); in PHP. Since shared hosts are looking [...]
It’s thanksgiving eve so I was being super productive by surfing every blog known to man when I came across one of my favorite topics, programming fonts, which is so nerdy that it occupies it’s own brane.
And while Droid Sans Mono doesn’t suck as much as Courier Mono it can’t even touch Bitstream Vera Sans [...]
If you can’t decide between Cairngorm or PureMVC, Luke Bayes and Ali Mills have a presentation up that walks through the pros and cons of ten different frameworks:
Slide (not yet released)
ARP (I read somewhere that v3 was going to be Rails like in it’s ease of use ARP development seems to have stalled now that [...]
Adobe is now selling Flex Builder 2 for $249, still no word on the pricing for upgrading to Flex Builder 3 (how about free for everyone who paid $499 for FB2?)
I try to keep this blog free from my political views (go Ron Paul!) but this is one topic that never gets enough coverage in the news. You may have noticed that at the bottom of a post’s permalink page I have an appeal to donate to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, today there’s [...]
Merb gets a slick new site.
and it’s not me
Part of the brief was the ability to print at small sizes and to work in black and white, it might be sour grapes coming through, but I don’t think the winner would hold up. The ruby masses don’t seem too pleased…
Update: actually I know why I lost my logo [...]
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Here’s the brief load an external image into Flex, resize it to fit in a container (but don’t make it bigger than the original), center it in the container, and smooth the image to get rid of any aliasing. Sounds like a simple job, slap down a VBox, set vertical and horizontal alignment, add an [...]