I just discovered by accident that word can send blog items to wordpress!

Just trying it now.

Just found this neat OS X screen ruler.

I got tired of doing a screen capture, loading it into photoshop and measuring using info from there.

This makes it all so easy, and best of all its free!

http://www.pascal.com/software/freeruler/

Technorati Tags: Apple, design, OS X, ruler, screen

So with much delight I set to and upgraded all three of my own Blogs in about 3 minutes flat.

So easy to do.

The alternative was to hard to even consider… Spending the night backing up and ftping all the files to all three sites, running through the setup procedure etc etc.

I will make the css a little more analogous to the wider yaml community so it will work with as little modification to the basemod.css file as possible.

Just a little tip, the one thing that really confused me the most… It was a real “DER!” moment when I realised where I was going wrong:

Try removing the overflow attribute from #nav in the basemod.css file.

I couldn’t understand why the drop down wasn’t working until I realised the #nav div was cropping everything trying to go outside it… like a dropdown.

This may also be of use to jYAML users as well, I know many Joomla themer’s like to use drop down menus in their designs.

Technorati Tags: css, dropdown, jyaml, drop down, suckerfish, yaml

This image should be a sunset, but a neat anti-leaching measure will replace your stolen images on another site with a replacement image.

This is the tutorial I used:
http://websiteowner.info/tutorials/server/bandwidththeft.asp

Alot of bandwidth gets stolen when people link to your images from their website on your hosting account.

If you follow the tutorial carefully, this will be a thing of the past!

What is it?

The Ruby part is an easy to understand runtime compiled object orientated programming language.

Using plain language, Ruby allows novices to get started alot quicker than other pre-compiled languages like Java and C.

What about Rails?

For web developers / designers, Rails is where all the action is.

It’s basically a full stack object orientated web development framework.

Importantly, Rails provides a full MVC (Models, Views, Controllers) framework for developers to script with.

What does this mean?

It means that Rails does a heap of things that your average web developer should never need to worry about, like database abstraction and constant recoding of similar logic.

It takes alot of repetition out of the development process and this is a great thing for rapid application development.

The Cool thing about MVC’s is that you can separate your database (Models) code from your logic (controller) to your template code (html, xml etc).

It keeps things tidy and reusable.

Got a page that shows a list of podcast items and another xml feed podcast feed? Why recode your logic for both when you can use a single controller and models. for both “Views”?

I just get giddy thinking about it.

I’ll keep you posted on some of the projects that I want to do with it.

The whole incredible deal on Engadget!

This has a number of ramifications:

• Not paying for call forwards to our VOIP provider
• Our three copper lines hook straight into our virtual voice infrastructure - all lines are available at both locations
• Phones still work if our internet connection goes down
• We can still use our outgoing voip lines
• We can route all 000 (911) and 1800 number calls through the zaptel (Digium) lines.

It’s the icing on the cake, it means that we get all the benefits of both copper (PSTN) and VOIP!

We bought the card from Dean Davis from withtel.

Additional pricing can be found at Techtopia for Aussies, and telephonyware in the USA.

Tags: Digium, TDM400P, VOIP, FXO, zaptel, telephonyware

- Matthew Sweet, Jan 2007

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