August 2006
Having trouble applying Photoshop's Unsharp Mask filter to your creations? Using the Unsharp Mask can be tricky business, but, as Corrie explains, some good technique, a little patience, and an... Read More
How to generate excel without resorting to expensive libraries or ugly COM Interop.Read More
Rails provides a few caching techniques, one of which is a fragment cache. The fragment cache is a dead-easy way to cache bits of your view. After checking that your queries are doing sensible... Read More
Need to create a multi-user blogging site? Running ASP.NET? Check out SubText!Read More
http://www.sitepoint.com/examples/downtobusiness/SmallBusinessSurvey06.pdf The above URL will let you download the Sitepoint Small Business Survey of 2006. Thanks to Sitepoint again for setting this... Read More
The family album has been growing and coping with the volume of images, stored under Ubuntu is becoming a problem. With the attitude – “waste time to save time” – started... Read More
One of the subjects I brushed over last week was how you handle UTF-8 in email, because I don’t have a full picture on the best way to solve this. The fundamental problem is summarized nicely... Read More
Proper error and exception display can save you a lot af time and nerves. A few months ago, Harry published a slick bluescreen script for exception handling. I modified it to handle errors as well... Read More
As a result of all the noise about UTF-8, got an email from Marek Gayer with some very smart tips on handling UTF-8. What follows is a discussion illustrating what happens when you get obsessed with... Read More
The Rails team have released another security update, 1.1.5. Update your code/environment.rb to point to the new gem version, or go grab 1.1.5 and put it in your application’s vendor directory.... Read More
People often ask me how I know so much. I tell them I am divinely inspired, but that is a lie. The truth is I read a lot. Possibly too much. And probably should get out more and see the sun or... Read More
Cast your mind back through to mists of time to January 2001 — reality TV is hip and fresh, ‘Dubya’ is unpacking boxes in the Oval Office and Tantek Celik — he of box model... Read More
Following on from here, the presentation is now available here (PDF). Related recent discovery is TCPDF – basically a fork of FPDF (a pure-PHP PDF creator) but comes bundled with fonts that can... Read More
Take your interactive web apps to the next level with Adobe's Flex 2 -- it's fast, fashionable, and free! Join Josh as he walks through the process of developing a simple Flash project that shows... Read More
