A Penguin in the Orchard

links for 2008-11-19

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:08:21 +0000

Build seven good object-oriented habits in PHP While purely procedural designs without much modularity run just fine, the advantages of OO design show up in the maintenance. Because a typical application will spend the bulk of its lifetime in maintenance, code maintenance is a large expense over the lifetime of an application. It can also be [...]

Links for 2008-10-10 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Joseph Smarr " Using Netflix's New API: A step-by-step guide

links for 2008-10-10

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:02:48 +0000

Joseph Smarr " Using Netflix's New API: A step-by-step guide (tags: netflix programming tutorial api)

Links for 2008-09-22 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

hugin Download
Panaorama stitching software.
Feature: Stitch Photos Into Panoramas with Free Software
You can get decent photos out of a standard, consumer-grade digital camera, but a little post-processing can turn them into fantastic wide-angle landscapes. You don't need to be one of those people who can explain the concept of lateral chromatic aberration to get truly eye-catching digital pictures. With a few shutter clicks and some free, cross-platform software, you can easily mesh standard digi-cam shots into true landscapes, fix one photo's deficiencies with another, and create layered photo collages. Let's take a look at how to use the free, open source application Hugin to make two basic kinds of panoramas.

links for 2008-09-22

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:08:32 +0000

Feature: Stitch Photos Into Panoramas with Free Software You can get decent photos out of a standard, consumer-grade digital camera, but a little post-processing can turn them into fantastic wide-angle landscapes. You don't need to be one of those people who can explain the concept of lateral chromatic aberration to get truly eye-catching digital pictures. With [...]

What others were saying on this day

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:41:14 +0000

John Perry Barlow: “Within a few hours, we will see beginning the most vigorous efforts to end what remains of freedom in America. Those of who are willing to sacrifice a little - largely illusory - safety in order to maintain our faith in the original ideals of America will have to fight for those [...]

Links for 2008-09-10 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Lingon by Peter Borg
Lingon is a graphical user interface for creating an editing launchd configuration files for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5. You can use launchd on a Mac to launch scripts and applications whenever something special happens or at a specific time or periodically. You get all launchd configuration files in a list to the left so you can easily see all and choose which one to edit.
How To Master Photoshop In Just One Week
So you want to master Photoshop huh? You’ve come to the right place. This is the first part of a three part series that will help you to master Photoshop in and out in just one week. Today’s part is all about getting to know the basics of the program and how to operate the complex software - nothing amazing, but you need to crawl before you can walk!

links for 2008-09-10

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:07:22 +0000

How To Master Photoshop In Just One Week So you want to master Photoshop huh? You’ve come to the right place. This is the first part of a three part series that will help you to master Photoshop in and out in just one week. Today’s part is all about getting to know the basics of [...]

Links for 2008-09-08 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

The Roadhouse 186
This week, we dig back into the vault for music from early editions of The Roadhouse. Artists from Garageband.com (now iLike) take a prominent role and prove to be as strong as ever. David Rotundo, Steve Johnson, Carlos Del Junco, Son House, and Eric Bibb propel us through this edition. Some old, some new but all blue in the 186th Roadhouse.

links for 2008-09-08

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:04:25 +0000

The Roadhouse 186 This week, we dig back into the vault for music from early editions of The Roadhouse. Artists from Garageband.com (now iLike) take a prominent role and prove to be as strong as ever. David Rotundo, Steve Johnson, Carlos Del Junco, Son House, and Eric Bibb propel us through this edition. Some old, some [...]

links for 2008-09-06

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:35:36 +0000

Track Tropical Storm Josephine, Track Hurricane Ike, Track Hurricane Hanna / Stormpulse / Hurricane tracking, mapping Track Atlantic hurricanes. (tags: weather hurricanes atlantic storms map)

Links for 2008-09-05 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Track Tropical Storm Josephine, Track Hurricane Ike, Track Hurricane Hanna / Stormpulse / Hurricane tracking, mapping
Track Atlantic hurricanes.

Links for 2008-09-04 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

15 Ubiquity Commands to Enhance Your Web Experience
Once you install the extension, you call up the console window by hitting Ctrl-Space. What’s especially nice about Ubquity’s interface is that it overlays the currently displayed web page as a translucent modal window, so queries can be performed without losing sight of the information that most likely provoked the lookup. In some cases, though not enough at the moment, query results are displayed inline — directly in the console window — instead of switching focus to a new page or tab.

links for 2008-09-04

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:35:55 +0000

15 Ubiquity Commands to Enhance Your Web Experience Once you install the extension, you call up the console window by hitting Ctrl-Space. What’s especially nice about Ubquity’s interface is that it overlays the currently displayed web page as a translucent modal window, so queries can be performed without losing sight of the information that most likely [...]

Links for 2008-09-02 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

45 Beautiful and Creative (WordPress) Designs - Six Revisions

links for 2008-09-02

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:05:26 +0000

45 Beautiful and Creative (WordPress) Designs - Six Revisions (tags: design web blogs CSS themes webdesign)

links for 2008-08-31

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:01:50 +0000

The Roadhouse 185 As summertime in the US winds down and the presidential election season gears up, we build a little shelter from the world in the 185th Roadhouse. Jay McShann, Elvin Bishop, Lil Ed, JJ Grey, and Carlos Del Junco are the mortar between those bricks in that shelter, helping to hold together a solid [...]

links for 2008-08-24

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:01:15 +0000

The Roadhouse184 This hour of The Roadhouse is chock full of great blues by artists you’ve heard of and artists you haven’t. It’s music from Chicago and Dockery Farms, from St. Louis and Dallas, from the 1920s and 2008. Sometimes the essence of a thing is so clear it needs no further explanation or exploration. That’s [...]

links for 2008-08-23

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:04:07 +0000

Terminal Tips: Disable Dashboard - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Disabling the Dashboard. (tags: mac osx leopard dashboard terminal howto tips)

links for 2008-08-21

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:04:41 +0000

Terminal Tips: Disable Dashboard - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Disabling the Dashboard. (tags: mac osx leopard dashboard terminal howto tips)

links for 2008-08-19

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:03:00 +0000

Power Readers in Politics

Apple Is Flailing Badly At The Edges

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:59:16 +0000

I’ll excuse the one hour of battery life I seem to be able to get out of my iPhone. An arrangement of extra power cords (USB, car, wall) and external batteries gets me through the day. I’ll also excuse the fact that iTunes seems hell bent on not syncing applications from my desktop to my [...]