Remember to check your emoticon path for Expression Engine!

Getting ready to move a site from dev to production. I often use Charles just to make sure paths are doing what they are supposed to do. I had done an initial test moving from localhost to an actual IP address just to run through the process. I got everything except emoticons and it took [...]

Python and PHP serialization

I have some data that I am pulling via Amara. I need to put that in a database. The app that uses that data is in PHP and would prefer the data to be serialized. Fortunately, there is help!
Scott Hurring: Code: Python: PHP Serialize implemented in Python: v0.4b
This is a python implementation of [...]

grep instead of python?

I have an xml file with a listing of images that I need for a site. Typically I fire up IPython with Amara and do my xml wrangling there. But I also needed the files. I thought about using python to also grab and save the files but a little search led to this post. [...]

Notes: Photoshop Sparklines Script

Tufte Sparklines Photoshop Script | La Photo Vita
Sparklines can be hard to produce. Most graphing packages are designed to produce large graphs or charts, and it can be very hard to generate the wide-but-thin lines for incorporation in documents. This was the motivation for writing a Photoshop script that would automate the production of sparklines. [...]

Notes: LOMO Photoshop script

Flickr: Discussing Fake-LOMO Adobe Photoshop Script in Technique
I saw that there are some PS actions for doing LOMOing but they don’t seem to handle multiple sized images well. I threw together this PS script to handle multiple sized images as well as non-flattened images.

Notes: Photoshop recursive save to web script

Ovidiu Predescu’s Weblog: Recursive export to Web in Photoshop CS3

Yesterday I was looking for a way to take a subset of the pictures I
have and convert them to JPG. I want to use the JPGs on a small Mac
Mini to make presentation in FrontRow using a newly acquired Canon SX7 digital projector (more on this [...]

Getting an int from math calculations in javascript

Javascript – Casting to integer on arithmetic division… – Rexiology… – MSMVPS.COM

As Javascript been a weak-typed language, sometimes it’s not able to
cast a variable from one type to another. as in arithmetic division, if
one wants to output an integer instead of a double or else, here is a
way learned from this article that’s useful:

a = [...]