Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category
Converting PDFs to JPEGs
We sometimes forget how powerful our little Macs our - forget about the Terminal command, but simply through the power of Automator. I needed to convert 237 images from PDFs to JPEGs for web use and amazingly Photoshop & sister app Bridge (both CS3) were completely unhelpful. No combination [...]
Vertical Market Solutions in FileMaker, Issue 0
There's not a lot of info, I realize, on the web or collectively disseminated about building a vertical market solution using FileMaker Pro as your development and user environment. Many people have built vertical market solutions, but few have actually spoken about it. Given this is something I [...]
The problems with Jquery & WordPress as a CMS
I'm a big fan of increasing productivity by having computers do work for me. With the release of the website for InBloom version 2.0, I decided to use Wordpress as a CMS (content management system) so I wouldn't have to fire up Dreamworks to make a correction or an update. So far, it's been work [...]
A nice introduction to AJAX
For those looking for a nice intro to AJAX, both Michael of Binary Bonsai and IBM Developer Works have writeups. Michael's is more about the Scriptaculous JavaScript library, but it's worth reading. You can find Michael's wri [...]