Posted in Code, javascript on Apr 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
“Transparent messages are the brainchild of Jef Raskin. It’s simply a large and translucent message that’s displayed over the contents of your screen” from monolog_boxes_and_transparent_messages.
Transparent Messages are a nice way to alert your users that something has happened. The alert is not ‘modal’ in the same sense that a standard message box is. The user [...]
Posted in Code, Personal on Mar 18th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m inviting everyone who stops by to take a look at my new portfolio.
http://jbloomdesign.com/portfolio
Let me know what you think.
Thanks.
I built the portfolio using YUI, Python and JSON
All of those technologies are great by the way. Highly recommended!
Posted in Code, python on Feb 14th, 2007 4 Comments »
So I had a little time on my hands and thought it might be fun to get to the bottom of this Infinite Monkeys and Shakespeare dillema.
Here’s some python code that tries to randomly write the line “Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio.” To make it easier I’ve ignored punctuation and case but still, [...]
Posted in Code, Technical, for:elzr, python on Jan 18th, 2007 6 Comments »
After my recent wedding Jody and I were getting lots of invitations to view Kodak Easy Share photo galleries.
Unfortunately there is no ability to download quality copies of the images you are looking at.
Fortunately however I know me some intarweb. So without further ado I am happy to introduce RipAndZipKodakGallery.
Basically this a command anyone can [...]
Posted in Code, python on Sep 25th, 2006 1 Comment »
Saw this easy way to reverse a string in python today, over at Answer My Searches
Here’s how to do it:
exampleString = ‘Hey there fancy pants’
reversedString = exampleString[::-1]
print reversedString
>> stnap ycnaf ereht yeH
This works because a String is a sequence type in python and you can apply all the ’slicing’ syntax you want to it. So [...]
Posted in Code on Aug 28th, 2006 1 Comment »
Hey everyone, I’ve been testing Lyceum which is a multi user wordpress blogging system for an upcoming project at work. I needed to create a lot of blogs quickly and fortunately there is a handy import users feature which creates blogs for everyone.
Unfortunately it names the new blogs in an ugly way, http://multi.lyceumblog.com/username_blog_183
So I’m posting [...]
Posted in Code on Aug 18th, 2006 No Comments »
I’ve recently moved to Arizona as some of you may know and I’m in the middle of looking for a motorcycle. I’ve been in love with the BMW GS since I first saw one. Here’s an example I’m hotlinking to.
Anway I’ve been searching Craigslist for one of these bikes and they are pretty rare, I [...]
Posted in Code, Technical on Feb 18th, 2006 5 Comments »
I’m releasing a new utility that I created for my design professor. He uses Alias to create VRML files to demo his designs to clients.
Unfortunately Alias is a bit backwards when it creates the files and instead of making .jpg files for the textures it creates .sgi or .rgb picture files, and it seems most [...]
Posted in Code, Technical on Jan 28th, 2006 6 Comments »
A Python application that makes it easy to use iTunes as your alarm clock. It’s alot easier getting out of bed when you play some kick ass tunes.
Posted in Code, Technical on Oct 27th, 2005 1 Comment »
Because Crystal Reports.Net has really poor documentation I’m going to post this here in case any other poor souls are running into this issue.
Basically a String type parameters have a length limitation of 255 Characters. I was passing in some text as a Parameter to be printed in the footer of a complicated report, [...]