Archive for April, 2007

• 04.23.07 TextMate Fonts posted in Geekery

  Admittedly, I’ve never played much with monospaced fonts. As a graphic designer, I’ve put my time into my art and let my code rest on Monaco. No more, however, as a couple of fonts were just brought to my attention via the TextMate list that have sparked a new interest in monospace fonts for me…

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• 04.23.07 FlickrMate Zero Point Eight posted in Geekery

  Okay, I’m not spitting out bug releases, I actually keep coming up with cool things to add to this. This will be my final release (for the day). Version 0.8 adds sorting, better progress reporting and templates for the img tag. Right now it handles Markdown and HTML, and it’s really easy to modify and add languages. Using this system, you can even make different things happen with the commands in different scopes. You could, for example, scope one pref file to insert just the url if it were inside of double quotes, and an entire image tag if it was in the base of an HTML file. Get it? Cool.

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• 04.23.07 FlickrMate turns 0.7 posted in Geekery

  I did some serious touching up on the image browser for the FlickrMate bundle. It now handles window resizing better (or at all) and the photoset command loads all photosets and lets you browse through them, including a set for photos not in a photoset. Download below and try it out, it’s fun…

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• 04.22.07 FlickrMate with Image Browser posted in Geekery

  Okay, I’ve added an image browser to FlickrMate. It’s almost ready for the Downloads page. I’ve just replaced the second tm_dialog popup with a custom nib that builds a preview url for each image and loads it on the fly when that image is selected in the browser. Seems to work pretty slick.

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• 04.22.07 Flickr, meet TextMate posted in Geekery

  Well, you knew it was bound to happen once I started playing with the Flickr API. Here’s my Flickr bundle for TextMate. I have a feeling it will grow, and right now it’s not an image browser, just a text based list of your images and photosets. It allows for searching within your images (searches titles, descriptions and tags), narrowing down by photoset, and inserts an XHTML img tag with width, height, src and alt attributes. There’s also a proof-of-concept command that will insert a thumbnail hotlinked to a full size image…

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• 04.21.07 Even Better Gallery posted in Wordpress Links

  The Slidez xml feed inspired me to create my own gallery function for it. But then I figured why not do the same thing with Flickr and keep my photos somewhere they’d actually be found? Fortunately I found the Falbum plugin and just made some minor modifications to it. The Gallery is now driven by Flickr, and the Flickr feed on the homepage runs off the plugin. Everything looks the same, minus a little lightbox action (which was a conscious decision). I love being able to use the Flickr Uploader, tag my images and have my new albums be out there for more than just my blog readers. Now I just have to get our new photographer to submit some work (he’s awesome).

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• 04.20.07 Slidez: Quick and Easy Portfolios posted in Web Design

  Slidez is a new tool that has me a little excited. You can sign up for a free account and then batch upload a bunch of photos to create a slideshow. You can customize where the thumbnails go, what font is used, background color, etc. But wait, here’s the cool part: it’s got an embed function for your website/blog and an xml feed. Have fun! [via Lifehacker]

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• 04.20.07 Wrapping Up on Subversion posted in Geekery

  Well, it’s been a fun ride. I’ve done my best to share my experiences and hopefully a few people learned along with me. I know that Subversion has become a great part of my development cycle and that I will continue to use it and develop similar work cycles into the future. As a final hoorah for the series, I’m just going to mention a few things…

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• 04.18.07 The TextMate Subversion Bundle posted in Geekery

  Now that you’ve got Subversion working and have a basic understanding of the command line, I’ll show you how I make life a little easier for myself. I experimented with a few graphical clients but actually found working with the TextMate Subversion Bundle to be the easiest way to go. If you need to update your bundle, see the instructions below, otherwise, jump to the second section!

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• 04.16.07 Rotating VIRB Headers Revisited posted in Web Design

  If you read the original rotating VIRB headers post with great curiosity, you’ll want to read this. A great secret has been passed down to me from the top of the VIRB mountain…

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