March 2010
11 posts
2 tags
Shoeset
A little Shoes app that generates tag clouds for a user’s chosen set on Flickr.
This was basically a geek solution to me asking myself, “I wonder what films I had best results with at those weddings?” Since I tend to use sets for events, and a mix of film and cameras at events, this worked well for me.
Uses the excellent Flickraw gem and this TagCloud class. It’s the...
1 tag
When will pixels become obsolete? →
I guess the answer is never?
Came across this, from 2008, when I was recently re-jigging my site and wondering whether there was actually any reason anymore to swop everything over to EMs from the pixels I’d inherited with the theme - which I’d been intending to do since day 1, but you know: laziness and all - seeing as how modern browsers such as Chrome will zoom all the content...
1 tag
1 tag
Snow Leopard and Gems "wrong architecture"
Not that I’m on Snow Leopard yet (ever??), but should you get an error such as:
"hpricot_scan.bundle: mach-o, but wrong architecture"
Or any other gem, doesn’t have to be Hpricot, then it is, as the error message says, because of a mismatch between the architecture of Ruby and the gem. And on Snow Leopard this is most likely because you are using a 32-bit version of Ruby and the...
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
31.536.000 SECONDS →
(Link to PDF Press Release).
Great news for Polaroid fans, although seeing as how SX-70 and 600 series cameras weren’t exactly going cheap on eBay before, I think I’ll have to just stick to peel apart film for the foreseeable future.
1 tag
H&FJ: Four Techniques for Combining Fonts →
dhotson:
cameronmoll:
Hoefler & Frere-Jones:
Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ’s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.
Positively bookmarkworthy. This is great stuff, and the examples are top-notch.
A bit like when I learnt, many moons ago now, what shades of...
3 tags
Spring Cleaning
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve taken the opportunity to use Google Buzz to clean-up my website. I’ve removed the side bar that featured Twitter, Delicious, Google Reader, Last.fm and Flickr widgets and instead have replaced with a simple link to my Buzz profile page. Makes for a much cleaner site. The only thing Buzz doesn’t do yet is pull in info from Last.fm, but I...
1 tag
HTML5 Outliner Extension for Chrome →
Really nifty little plug-in, not only for checking your HTML5 Outlines, but also for navigating HTML5 sites.
1 tag
Google Buzz Is (was anyway) Perfectly Private...
I’ve missed the boat entirely with this as Google have addressed some of the ‘issues’ now, but anyway I started writing the post so I’ll finish it. There were basically three points I wanted to make:
Spamming of “trending topics” by a plethora of websites / news outlets. Everyone seemed to jump on the Google Buzz Bash Bandwagon at the launch. And although...