GimpShop & Photoshop Shortcut File
For all of you who need/want to do graphics work on Linux, the Gimp is praised as an alternative to Photoshop. Well, I tend to use CS4 for the more complex work since Gimp simply isn’t that powerful and comfortable… wait. There’s GimpShop!
What’s that?
GimpShop (http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294) is a hack for Gimp to change the menu structure [...]
Doing UPDATE with Doctrine and a String as Parameter
Today I had to extend a few Doctrine queries and one of these modifications consisted of changing the parameter of an UPDATE query from integer to string – and whoops! It didn’t work anymore…
When using $query->getSql(); I noticed that it wanted to do something like this:
UPDATE data SET date = 2009-12-14 WHERE …
and of course [...]
IRC server & channels added!
Since the start of this week, there is an own IRC server running at irc.droom.at (webchat or connect directly with your favourite IRC client) which offers support for:
Rails
jQuery
symfony
HAML / SASS
and sports some fun channels. Check it out and populate the server
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How HAML changed my (XHTML) life
Using HAML and SASS have streamlined my template and XHTML building in a way I couldn’t imagine. I’ve tried some markup/markdown like textile but HAML is so well integrated into Ruby on Rails, it’s plain amazing. Come on, take a look, I promise you will like that one
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How to process multiple checkboxes with jQuery
The functionality isn’t new: you have a list of stuff and want checkboxes before the elements so you can mass-process them. In my case, I wanted to set a number of list elements to a certain state (which in this case means a status flag in the database) so the need arose to fetch all [...]
Analytics Desktop Reporting with Polaris
Yesterday I’ve found a nice Adobe AIR application named “Polaris” (find it here) which provides a desktop interface to the most important Google Analytics reports. It comes as a free version which limits you to one Analytics account but you can also go premium and pay for it to have multiple Analytics accounts displayed at [...]
Mailer HOWTO for Rails
Since sending mails via Rails is – at first sight – a bit tricky, I want to provide you with a quick heads up on how to do that.
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Subscribe2: too much MIME prevents mails being sent…
Today I added the subscribe2 plugin to this blog, which in fact is very nice (hey you – are you subscribed yet?) to notify users of new posts. But when I took the first dry run trying to subscribe and confirm my account, no mail has been sent. Well, in fact the logfiles of my [...]
Changing selected option in a SELECT
In Symfony, nothing is as easy as it might seem. So I ran into the problem to change which element of an autogenerated SELECT is selected. jQuery came in handy to accomplish that.
In this case, my SELECT looks like:
<select id=”mySelect”><option value=”0″>please choose</option><option value=”1″ selected>some option</option><option value=”2″>some other option</option><option value=”3″>you get it</option></select>
Now, I want to have [...]
SVN: A quick HOWTO
If you do a lot of coding, you will experience the need for versioning your code. I have used CVS before switching to SVN and I can only recommend SVN to you – once you get the hang of it, you will love it. I even use SVN for keeping track of complex HTML templates.
When [...]
