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Archive for December, 2005

Tweaked

By Emile • Dec 31st, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General, WWW

Before doing any serious upgrading to Wordpress 2.0, which I’m debating, I managed to tweak the site a bit using some tips care of Paul Stamatiou. Go check it out.
Also, I love footers with this style (care of Tauqil.com). Expect to see something like this in both Elvgren and Taft! With a […]



Being a Pro…

By Emile • Dec 31st, 2005 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

In more recent updates, I caved and finally upgraded to a Pro Flickr account. There just isn’t another fun and easy way to share 450 photos of the holidays with friends and family, comments, notes, and all. If there is at least, I don’t know of it. I was/am a beta-tester of […]



A return to the mighty keyboard!

By Emile • Dec 29th, 2005 • Category: General

In poor form, I must say, I vanished from the keyboard and computer these past couple of days to take some time off and recuperate away from a blinking cursor. It’s nice to come back feeling as refreshed as I feel, though the pre-holidays mess I left at home is enough to drive me […]



On the note of FileMaker naming conventions

By Emile • Dec 21st, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General, Software

Mikhail Edoshin, whose blog I strongly recommend reading for some interesting and abstract FileMaker thinking, pointed out here recently that FileMaker has also recently published an elaborate whitepaper on naming conventions of everything from fields, to Table Occurrences, to scripts. I strongly recommend reading it.
If not, take a look at Mikhail’s blog for some […]



FileMaker 8 Updates Have Just Been Released: 8.0v2

By Emile • Dec 21st, 2005 • Category: FileMaker, General

In case you missed out, FileMaker has released the v2 updates to FileMaker 8. I have’t found the exclusive fix list, but it may be what some of you have been waiting for, so go get it!



Problems with Web 2.0

By Emile • Dec 18th, 2005 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

I’ve read a lot about this, most especially by the seeming clairvoyants over at InfoWorld. What happens when all this networked stuff breaks? Could I ever lose my work and time spent tagging my bookmarks? Couldn’t Yahoo just decide to charge me one day to access them again? I know I […]



Way to go Ars!

By Emile • Dec 18th, 2005 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

For those not following any of the recent negative buzz surrounding Apple’s Aperture 1.0, you should start by scouring the web for most of the reviews that have labeled it as phenomenal and a ‘must-have’, then read the initial review at Ars Technica. The latter, while having been demonized as an Aperture bash-fest or […]



A nice introduction to AJAX

By Emile • Dec 15th, 2005 • Category: Design, General, Programming, Software, WWW, Wordpress

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 writeup here and IBM’s writeup here.
The scant posts here at SWL are a product of a lot […]



All is quiet on the eastern front…

By Emile • Dec 10th, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General, Software

Or so it would seem given the placidity of the blog in recent days. The reasons primarily being that I’ve been in the thick of the final stages of the installation of an elaborate FileMaker setup for a client.
The setup involves 22 clients and one FileMaker server. The server is a […]



Free and tradeable icons: brilliant!!!

By Emile • Dec 4th, 2005 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

For those not in the know, the folks over at FireWheel design and IconBuffet.com are giving away royalty-free artwork and icons (for both commercial and personal use). Simply, this is a brilliant idea at creating a network of users hawking in the trading of their lovely free creations. All you need to do […]