http://www.justkez.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:20:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having posted about world file (worldfile) calculations in the past (see here), I thought it might be nice to share a little spreadsheet to make this process easier. Simply put, this is an Excel file allowing you to paste in the contents of your worldfile and image dimensions, and it returns ... http://www.justkez.com/world-file-extent-calculator There are a handful of flight path visualizations out there, but I've always wanted to have a go at my own. These below videos are built with Processing and, for the moment, assume direct - straight line - flight paths; something that needs to be improved for the next versions. London departures The ... http://www.justkez.com/flight-path-visualization-first-attempt Our family has - unfortunately - just lost a husband, father and to me, a grandfather. Whilst this is a particularly sad and upsetting situation, it's made somewhat worse given that those affected span across eight hours of time difference - some in the UK, and some in Singapore. I ... http://www.justkez.com/google-tries-to-profit-from-death Tried to login to the Apple Developer Connection this evening. Utter fail: http://www.justkez.com/logging-into-apple-developer-connection-fail Ben Fry has posted a quick summary of "Fonts for Financials" by Hoefler & Frere-Jones. It has never occurred to me that swapping a few typefaces around could increase the readability (through being more visually appealing) of mundane documents. I may try and do my text piece of technical documentation ... http://www.justkez.com/impressive-typography-for-unimpressive-documents This post outlines how to get database driven, session based user registration, authentication and login working with Ramaze and Sequel. Introduction Ramaze is, in my opinion, the leading Ruby web framework. Whilst the documentation and community examples are still gaining momentum, you can really benefit by spending some time learning the ... http://www.justkez.com/user-authentication-with-ramaze "Few" being the operative word. Paste these into your abbrev.properties file, and you should be good to go (typing %form and hitting Ctrl+B in any file will give you the full %form... line). %form=%form{:action => '|', :method => 'POST', :name => ''} %input=%input{:name => '|', :id => '', :value => ''} %label=%label{:for ... http://www.justkez.com/a-few-abbreviationssnippets-for-scite-and-haml An excellent guest post on FlowingData by Martin Krzywinski on how best to visually represent tabular data - a thoughtful, thorough and very useful post. http://www.justkez.com/visually-representing-tabular-data A while ago I posted a little piece on installing Ramaze on OS X Leopard. Whilst this article outlines what you need to get up and running, it was based on Ruby 1.8. It is now recommended that Ramaze users be on Ruby 1.9 where possible (thanks Pistos). Install ... http://www.justkez.com/ramaze-and-ruby-19-on-leopard Although these posts aren't stricly daily... The BBC Internet blog talks about what they do to optimise the iPlayer delivery - pornography for the optimisation obsessed. Makes my use of WPSuperCache look a bit weak. Nice, simple comparison of using and not-using gzip to compress your website. (Bit of an optimisation ... http://www.justkez.com/interesting-links-of-the-day-2