Whoa. Where’d that come from? Christmas break has given me some free time to post some fairly significant site updates, most noticeably some new widgets for the sidebar on the left! Now you can keep track of me on XBox Live and Steam game services, and see how I’ve chosen to spend my free time [...]
Browsing 2010 December
Photoshop Faster
While researching methods of loading Applications for my messy apps post, I started looking into which files Adobe Photoshop CS 5 was actually loading. Turns out, there were a LOT of plugins that I’d never actually used that came bundled with it, and these were adding a lot of overhead during my graphics editing sessions. [...]
Fixing Messy Mac Apps
Mac App folders are a great thing. They bundle all the application’s files, executables, libraries and resources into a single place, makes them easy to move, copy, install and delete, and it looks pretty decently organized when you open your Applications folder. It gets really annoying then, when a non-native or ported app has additional files [...]
Ooh, Colourful!
Take a look at the big green-ish box above this post. I’m lazy and I haven’t uploaded a featured image. Instead, this custom wordpress theme generates a random colour based on the title of the post, and assigns 1 of 4 possible overlay patterns (in this case, pixellated question marks). How did I accomplish this, [...]
.NET MVC First Impressions
Today I had a rare opportunity. An old, terribly designed classic ASP site was falling apart, and it was our job to re-build it. No pressing deadline, so it’s something we can plan, research, and, most importantly we can have some fun with. The client has a Windows-based server, under tight security regulations. Because of [...]