TheMirror reverses your text, it’s a simple javascript gimmick, that I havn’t seen anywhere before, even though i’m sure it is in quite a few other places.
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First things first, buckle your seatbelts, this is going to be a long one. It concludes the three part tutorial (Part 1, Part 2). We’re going to write the code to make the design happen, this includes putting in some dummy text, and at the end, we will have a working design, that could be converted into a WordPress theme. (future tutorial?).
Anyway, first we are going to fill out the index.html file with some standard HTML and the code needed to call blueprint into action, (there will be a download later on in the post if you can’t be bothered to fill out the file yourself):
<html> <head> <title>Our Design</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="blueprint/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="blueprint/print.css" type="text/css" media="print"> <!--[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" href="blueprint/ie.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"><![endif]--> <!-- this needs to be after the framework --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> </head> <body> <div class="container"> </div> </body> </html> Continue reading 'Web Development with The Gimp and Blueprint CSS – Part 3'
This tutorial starts where the other one left off and covers chopping up and saving of the image we created. It’s relatively straight forward and easy to follow.
You should open the XCF file you have from last time, or you can download one from here. So that you have the following on your screen:
Continue reading ‘Web Development with The Gimp and Blueprint CSS – Part 2′
The GIMP is a popular FREE and open source image editing program, Blueprint CSS is a popular and also free CSS framework, it makes web layouts easy and chooses sensible style defaults on your web page. It is compatible with almost all modern browsers and makes designing a website easy and simple.
This first part contains how to set up the files and folders and create the image in the Gimp, the second part will contain how to slice up the image and save it, and the third part (out 14/01/09) will show how to write the code and finish up.
First, a little about my setup. I’m running Ubuntu 8.10 (64 bit version). I have GIMP 2.6, I also am going to be using Firefox 3. The Browser should not matter as Blueprint is tested and works in most modern browsers. I assume knowledge of your chosen OS, that you have the gimp installed and working, and that you know how to open an image in the gimp. It’s also useful if you know what some of the tools are called.
At the end of the three part tutorial you should have something like this in your web browser, with boxes for the content and sidebar etc.:
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There is a new version of AmLog out, licenced under the BSD licence (revised). There has been some documentation added, and it is all around easier to use. visit http://launchpad.net/amlog and click download to get it. Read the README first.
A simple UpsideDown GUI is available from the code bin.
I havn’t written much worth noting recently, and I havn’t had much that was worth posting about. Still, I thought I would post quickly to let everyone know that i’m still alive.
I have found an Awesome Website. It gives you a list of some very good freee applications for Mac OSX, well worth a look if you have a mac.
Also I have been involved with Young Enterprise at school, and have set up a website explaining who we are, what we sell and where we sell it. Our Young Enterprise website has more information.
It isn’t very full at the moment. But i have written it over the weekend in any spare time i have had using Django and I aim to put all the peices of code in there that don’t really deserve their own sourceforge/launchpad project. The URL is http://code.dontclickonme.com/. I will update the links in this blog to point to the Snippets library rather than the plain text files that they usually are sometime soon.
I think it really shows what you can do with Django, and how quickly you can make somthing functional using it.
If you are at all intrested in the code for the Library itself. Leave a comment.
Recently, over JOTA/JOTI, see gb2irs.dontclickonme.com, Colin (TheBoff) had been writing an amateur radio logbook. When back home, I decided I had nothing to do, so re-wrote the same thing from scratch, and added/changed stuff.
It would be the perfect thing to have running where there are lots of operators, it keeps all the entries together, and easily accessable.
For the origonal, speak to TheBoff, i’m not sure where the best place to look is, but you might find him on freenode.
For my version, I placed it on launchpad: http://launchpad.net/amlog, At the moment it’s difficult to set up and fairly customised to my personal setup, but this will change in the future.
Basic features so far are:
- Limited user support, limited access etc, only those logged in can post.
- Public view function, you can view the log without being logged in.
- Input validation, returns fields as they were with invalid input, above them.
- Admin interface (comes with Django, along with some other useful features), provides editing of entries.
TODO (ie. Coming soon if anyone can be bothered…):
- Auto fill of time and date fields, but the will have the ability to be changed.
- Auto fill of the current operator, based on their username.
- Config option, to allow public addition to the log, (assuming you trust everyone on your local network)
- Backup ability, the ability to download the log as a CSV (to be imported into Excel or similar).
- The ability to add to the Logbook from uploaded CSV files.
A python script currently with a very very minimal Tkinter GUI that will emulate a shuffled deck of cards being placed onto the table. It will help to practice counting cards for blackjack. You will be able to compare your count with the count of the computer.
Link to the Sourceforge Project Page
More work is planned.
Update: It’s worth mentioning i spent a couple of hours cleaning up the code today, hopefully you’ll find it more reliable, i’m currently adding images for the cards, once that is done it will make the whole application more worth while.
