Archive for November, 2007
Ruby XML translator
I’ve been doing work experience at AMV over the last month. One of the things that I’ve been working on is a workflow for video assets – managing assets (and information about them) in the file system and between various databases. We set up some ‘chron jobs’ to trigger scripts that interrogate the assets and [...]
Apple line art
I’ve be learning to use Adobe Illustrator by drawing Apple products (I know, what’s better for vector art than technology, right?) I imported photos and used the path tool to trace the outlines, this meant I got the correct perspective and had a good point of reference to use the path tool with. I kept [...]
UPDATE: I was using this script on my site for a little while but I’ve since switched to a more versatile WordPress plugin called wp-lifestream. I’ve been using a great script from Remy Sharp to pull updates from Twitter (using JSON) and present them using AJAX. It’s a versatile tool but only works with Twitter, [...]