One of the big things I needed to do when switching from ASP.NET to PHP was to figure out how to do authentication and authorization. ASP.NET is pretty strong in this area as it’s very easy to set up forms authentication and authorization rules for a site. I found that things weren’t so [...]
Friday, June 12th, 2009
Tags: Development, Software
Apple – Pro – Techniques – Automator Workflow Techniques
Creating a photo slideshow DVD is easy enough with iDVD. But Automator can make it even easier. The following steps will walk you through the process of creating an Automator workflow that will scan through a folder structure of files, extracting any JPEG images, and creating an [...]
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Tags: Apple, Photography, Software
15 Useful Batch Image Processors
Whether you’re a Web developer, Web designer or blogger, you’ve probably had to deal with the headache of converting many images to different sizes and formats. It’s not much fun if you have to convert all of them by hand. Batch image processing can reduce this process from hours of work [...]
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Tags: Photography, Software
I just downloaded and installed IE8 on my Windows VM to see how well it conforms to web standards. It’s definitely better than earlier versions as several noticable quirks from version 7 disappeared when I browsed some familiar sites. This is a big plus as it shows Microsoft is moving in the right [...]
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Tags: Software
I’ve used AJAX plenty of times before but it’s always been in an ASP.NET setting. I’m starting to do more and more with PHP and one of the first things I tried to figure out was how to incorporate AJAX into my PHP sites. After a quick search, it seemed that the Prototype [...]
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Tags: Development, Software