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 table: go to apps directory “ruby script\generate model TABLE_NAME (i.e. recipe)” [SINGULAR]
6. Create controller of table: go to apps dire [...]
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 … this is where the photograph will go
3) Open your photograph of choice and shrink it down a [...]
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.
Nifty!
Currently: San Diego is up, and are some of pictures from Vegas.
Further Plans:
[? ] a web2.0 badge?
[? ] email addresses [...]
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 downloaded PublishXP from ver 2.1!!)
3. Delete Gallery2
4. Upload Gallery2
5. Install modules: PublishXP, imageblock, imageframe
6. Delete plugin: WPG2 and re-install, [...]
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 making the actual script impossible to use. You can imagine how frustrating it is to start [...]
WORDPRESS THEMES
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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 site on Wordpress Templates
Basically every theme has a few important template files.? The main one is index.php.? There [...]
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 that DVDShrink is not able to crack. ?
Such as Hitch.
Anyway, to rip Hitch, I had to [...]