Quick and Dirty Ruby on RAILS (more to come)

by Tony Hung on March 29, 2006

Quick and Dirty Rails 1. Create rails: “rails recipe_book” 2. Create databasei in mysql 3. Create table in database — PLURAL, e.g. “recipes” NOT “recipe” 4. EDIT ruby database so it points to database — “config/database.yml” 5. Create model of (…)

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Photographs to Pictures

by Tony Hung on March 19, 2006

There is a great tutorial on how to turn photographs to pictures. Basically it is the following: 1) Create the photo-border by creating a rectangle shaped gradient 2) Create a selection that is 4 pixels less than the gradient … (…)

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theHungs.org ver 0.5

by Tony Hung on March 19, 2006

The website is sort of up … in a ver 0.5. Powered by: Dreamhost CM by: WordPress Gallery by: Gallery2.02 WPTheme: vSlider * Can upload pictures easily by just “Publishing through XP” plug in … and right through the desktop. (…)

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SOLUTION!

by Tony Hung on March 19, 2006

Moral of the story: don’t do anything when you’re tired as hell. So, the dilemma below is actually solved pretty easily with the following. 1. Download Gallery2 version 2.02 2. Download module: PublishXP from that SAME VERSION. (where I previously (…)

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Disaster!

by Tony Hung on March 19, 2006

Getting a good photo gallery up in Word press is a NIGHTMARE. Gallery2 is probably the only decent alternative. However, it is ABOMINABLY slow to upload, and unless you’re using something FileZilla, you can actually *lose* files to the upload (…)

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WordPress Themes and Dynamic Text Replacement(s)

by Tony Hung on March 13, 2006

WORDPRESS THEMES ————————– To muck around with WordPress themes requires a bit of time and energy, and diligence in looking through the wikis of interest, and just pulling apart a few themes and going to town. This is a useful (…)

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Ripping Sony Encrypted DVDs

by Tony Hung on March 11, 2006

Normally the process I use to rip DVD’s is to use DVDShrink 3.2 … you can find a copy of it on afterburn.com I think, as it is no longer officially released. However, some Sony DVD’s have an encryption scheme (…)

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