Aperture 3 migration tips</h1> <article> <h1>Aperture 3 migration tips</h1> <p>Andrey — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:27:25 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-img-top"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/blog/2010-02-12/aperture-3-migration-tips" class="imagecache imagecache-image-130 imagecache-linked imagecache-image-130_linked"></a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Being quite geek I'm one of those early adopter guys. So wonder what? I've migrated my Aperture 2 library to just released Aperture 3. You may wonder why wouldn't I use Lightroom, but well, I just like Apreture's workflow + look and feel a bit more. That's it. Also faces and locations in Aperture 3 (apparently migrated from iPhoto) are just killer features comparing to Lightroom. </p> <p>Migration was quite easy but it took quite a time to rebuild the Aperture's database to a new version. You can migrate from previous library, old vault or my way was to save (export) projects from v.2 to external drive and import them in v.3 one by one afterwards. This also helped me to clean up some older projects which were on standby for quite a long time.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Drupal 6 Social Networking. The book.</h1> <p>Andrey — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:44:39 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-img-top"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/blog/2009-10-23/drupal-6-social-networking-the-book" class="imagecache imagecache-image-130 imagecache-linked imagecache-image-130_linked"></a> </div> </div> </div> <p>The first thing I have to mention about <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/build-social-networking-website-with-drupal-6/mid/241009lyelwf?utm_source=andreys.info&utm_medium=bookrev&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=mdb_001189" target="_blank">Drupal 6 Social Networking</a> (by PACKT Publishing) is that this book will be extremely handy to anybody new to Drupal and those looking for recipes to build community sites. It gives you the basic understanding of how Drupal works and what buttons you need to push to achieve desired results. It has great step by step tutorials (with screenshots) on the vast majority of common tasks you do with a Drupal site: content, menu and user management, permissions, adding and configuring modules, etc. It also helps you understand how Drupal modules integrate with each other to extend site functionality.</p> </article> <article> <h1>7 tips to power up MAMP on OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)</h1> <p>Andrey — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:21:57 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-img-top"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/blog/2009-09-16/7-tips-to-power-up-mamp-on-osx-10-6-snow-leopard" class="imagecache imagecache-image-130 imagecache-linked imagecache-image-130_linked"></a> </div> </div> </div> <p>First off I don't really like to go with extra apps on my Mac. So with Leopard I'd use (mark's) PHP (as 10.5.x didn't have GD support at least) and official MySQL distribution. With Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) Apple did a great job rolling out quite a nice http server but to the date it's way too advanced for my normal dev life. None of the web apps I do develop with (Druapl, ExpressionEngine, Joomla, WP ... ) are ready for PHP 5.3 yet. So the only choice was downgrade. </p> <p>I've tried a few ways as MacProts, compiling my own PHP (and libs) but that was not even 90% successful or buggy. So I looked to <a href="http://www.mamp.info/" title="MAMP" target="_blank">MAMP</a> again. Here are a few tips to get MAMP running nicely at OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard):</p> </article> <article> <h1>Installing minimal #!CrunchBang linux on old Sony laptop</h1> <p>Andrey — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:06:24 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-img-top"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/blog/2009-06-19/installing-minimal-crunchbang-linux-on-old-sony-laptop" class="imagecache imagecache-image-130 imagecache-linked imagecache-image-130_linked"></a> </div> </div> </div> <p>The 8 years old notebook (<a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/sony-vaio-r505tlk-c/1707-3121_7-6752630.html">Vaio R505TLK</a>) desperately needed some system refresh. The original Windows 2000 was more or less fine but up to date it become cluttered and quite unstable. I do have some sentimental feelings for the thing as it was working for me for quite a long time and helped to learn and achieve a lot. Now it is mostly a backup notebook for sudden guests without computers on them.</p> <p>After a bit of research and pre/re/over/install parties with some other Linux distributions I stopped with <a href="http://crunchbanglinux.org/">#!CrunchBang Linux</a>. A nicely put together slimmed down xubuntu version with OpenBox as window manager. It's quite a minimalist eye-candy for me as a designer, and most importantly it has great, very active community. And well... it works quite fast on Celeron 650 with 192RAM.</p> </article> <article> <h1>D6 update in progress</h1> <p>Andrey — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:47:26 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-img-top"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/blog/2009-03-11/d6-update-in-progress" class="imagecache imagecache-image-130 imagecache-linked imagecache-image-130_linked"></a> </div> </div> </div> <p>I've upgraded my blog to Drupal 6 but it seems something gone wrong. The text part works fine. </p> <p>The photo division will be back in a day or two. I decided to rework it completely anyway so some older images will be back later.</p> <p>The full moon is a great push anyway :)</p> </article> <article> <h1>VMWare Fusion 2, Windows 2000, Omnikey 3121. It takes three to tango.</h1> <p>Andrey — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:20:21 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-img-top"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/blog/2008-11-26/vmware-fusion-2-windows-2000-omnikey-3121-it-takes-three-to-tango" class="imagecache imagecache-image-130 imagecache-linked imagecache-image-130_linked"></a> </div> </div> </div> <p>I can not say I was exactly pissed off by this situation. But I would say inadequate "user experience" was guaranteed. Well. It took me more then an hour but I payed for my 3G connection while away from WinXP VMs on my external HD. One thing is that VMWare somehow degraded the product for older OS with new major update. The other is why smart guys at e-bank use Windows only compatible "security" software at all which is not so needed in the real world. It is just unprofessional (though it looks like). I understand that developing "hardware enabled software security system" will attract a larger budget but isn't it about end user convenience anyway?</p> </article> <article> <h1>Emergency fix OSX permissions (the rookie way)</h1> <p>Andrey — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:55:38 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-img-top"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/blog/2008-10-02/emergency-fix-osx-permissions-the-rookie-way" class="imagecache imagecache-image-130 imagecache-linked imagecache-image-130_linked"></a> </div> </div> </div> <p>I've ruined permissions at my home backup drive (it was 75% my fault to be honest). I tried to fix it terminal/unix way but it ended up with something even worser. Broken resource forks, fancy non existing users and permissions... (OMG, my lovely icons collection gone in bits and pieces). Then I was looking for easy solution to get back those zillion files live and proper. And you know what?</p> <p>The easiest way is to copy your files to FAT32 dive if you have any handy. What will happen: all your permissions will null comparing to HFS+ (but keeping icons, forks, bundles etc intact though).</p> </article> <article> <h1>SE P1i iSync synchronization tips</h1> <p>Andrey — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:44:34 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-img-top"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/blog/2008-07-19/se-p1i-isync-synchronization-tips" class="imagecache imagecache-image-130 imagecache-linked imagecache-image-130_linked"></a> </div> </div> </div> <p>I've been reinstalling my P1i again (experimenting too much...). Next step is to sync it with my Mac. But there is a glitch with Sony's iSync plugin: connection lost with the phone when syncing for a first time. I think the problem is with amount of contacts you have in your Address Book. I have over 500 and it never worked for me straight away. </p> <p>A small hint to deal with the situation: backup your Address Book (File -> Export -> Address Book Archive) then delete all the contacts in your Address Book (don't be scared, you have a backup). Sync your P1i again with empty Address Book. The process should go fine now. Right after that restore your Address Book archive (File -> Import -> Address Book Archive) and sync devices again. Here you go: all contacts transfered smoothly.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Photoblog on Drupal Rev.2</h1> <p>Andrey — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:13:59 +0000</p> <p>This concept was slightly changed versus previous <a href="/blog/2006-10-29/photoblog-on-drupal">Photoblog on Drupal</a> idea. The biggest thing missing with the new concept comparing to the previous one is lack of any user level permissions. Any kind of private content was not so popular among my friends and colleagues so it was dropped (everybody prefer email for this type of images).</p> </article> <article> <h1>New site version is out!</h1> <p>Andrey — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:41:40 +0000</p> <p>After a few months of lazy thinking and couple of days playing with setup and theme the new version of andreys.info is finally out! </p> <p>Please let me know if you spot any<strong> bugs</strong>.</p> <p>Hope it will kick me to post things on more regular basis. </p> <p>For those curious in Drupal setup details, there will be more information on how the new version is made in a day or so.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Delete .svn folders on your Mac</h1> <p>Andrey — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:50:52 +0000</p> <p>Sometimes you need to get rid of .svn hidden folders on your Mac. In my case it was about resyncing my local working copy with client subversion repository. Everything was broken at both ends.</p> <p>A couple of terminal commands to get rid of unneeded svn tracks: </p> <p><div class="codeblock"><code>cd /some/of/your/folders/<br />rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`</code></div><br /> It will delete any .svn folders under your current. </p> <p>For lazy typists: don't forget that you can drag and drop folder from finder to terminal to populate path.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Drupal vs Joomla</h1> <p>Andrey — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:41:27 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-img-top"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/blog/2008-02-11/drupal-vs-joomla" class="imagecache imagecache-image-130 imagecache-linked imagecache-image-130_linked"></a> </div> </div> </div> <p>It just came to my mind suddenly: <strong>Drupal vs Joomla</strong> = <strong>LEGO set vs Barbie set</strong>. </p> <p>I will not give you a long and logical explanation here. It's just an allegory. But many developers will probably agree. Drupal is rough and blocky at first sight (but extremely configurable) versus cute out of the box and so predefined (and somewhat messy) Joomla. Or is it just about your way of thinking?</p> </article> <article> <h1>Configuring terminal to work with MAMP mysql on Leopard</h1> <p>Andrey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:55:44 +0000</p> <p>I've decided to try <a href="http://mamp.info" target="_blank">MAMP</a> on new Mac OS X 10.5. Mostly because PHP bundled with Leopard doesn't have GD library (otherwise it has quite cool set of modules). The other reason that is better <a href="http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/" target="_blank">Marc Liyanage's PHP installer</a> is not yet ready for Leopard.</p> <p>But after backing up all my MySQL databases (around 200Mb dump) it turned out that you can't acces MAMP's mysql via terminal to restore it (or I was something terribly missing from FAQs).</p> </article> <article> <h1>Basic 5.1 update is running fine</h1> <p>Andrey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:48:02 +0000</p> <p>Basic 5.1 update is running fine. But there are some things yet to be updated and extended. Some new features for theme are in works. Super nice image_exact.module is missing for Drupal 5.x unfortunately (actually the only big upset). Other modules are basically the same as it was for 4.7 for now. I'll write more as soon as I'll have extra modules updated / installed. </p> <p>Comments are back.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Enormous progress at drupal.org</h1> <p>Andrey — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:44:00 +0000</p> <p>Enormous progress at drupal.org community forums. I managed to fit XXX89 post row somehow. Compare it: <a href="http://drupal.org/node/91889" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/91889</a> (the announcment about my site launch) and <a href="http://drupal.org/node/98689" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/98689</a> (another issue). It's 6800 posts in just three weeks!</p> <p>I'm glad to feel and know that. And I still remember the times when Drupal was tiny but still nice and clean more then 5 years ago. It's when I installed it for a first time (v1 or 2) and <a href="http://drupal.org/user/920" target="_blank">joined the community</a>.</p> </article> <article> <h1>I'm adding photos</h1> <p>Andrey — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:19:19 +0000</p> <p>Little by little, I'm adding photos. These are not most recent ones, but mostly archive ones. In next few days there will be several dozen new additions. Stay tuned.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Photoblog on Drupal</h1> <p>Andrey — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:11:18 +0000</p> <div id="message">The information below is somewhat obsolete and kept just for archiving purposes. It's recommended to check <a href="/blog/2008-05-04/photoblog-on-drupal-rev-2">new blog post</a> to get better idea how to make a nice photoblog on Drupal today.</div> <p>Here are the main reasons why I've chosen <a href="http://drupal.org" target="_blank">Drupal</a> over dedicated photoblogging scripts:</p> <ul> <li>User and access management (as I want my friends to be able to access some "friends only" images)</li> <li>Email notifications for new content + various RSS feeds (general / per tag / ...) </li> <li>Text blog</li> <li>Better functionality, flexibility and extendibility</li> <li>RSS aggregator to link to my friends' news</li> <li>Nice and clean urls</li> <li>and... I'm quite familiar with Drupal code and themes (and this was probably the main reason)</li> </ul> <p>After drawing a concept it was not very difficult to assemble photoblog on Drupal. But I made 3 differently setup installations before this final one was released. And I had to make several php code snippets and module code modifications to make the whole thing work the way I want. </p> </article> <article> <h1>Welcome!</h1> <p>Andrey — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:21:04 +0000</p> <p>It finally happened. My pictures go live! </p> <p>Every time I was “cleaning files” in my computer I was thinking about compiling my photos into a photoblog. Stored in my media there were about 15000 photos taken in last 10 years (about 30% are film and the rest are digital). Which means around 4 a day. And at least half of these are the ones which I would not like to move to the trash bin. And since I continue shooting at this rate there will always be a material to update this photoblog.</p> <p>I'd like to thank all the people and forces that helped me to create photographs and this site – my friends, models, and light, shadow, objects, animals, weather, time, space and great photographers out there who inspired and taught me.</p> </article> </main></body></html>