As a web designer, have you ever found yourself frustrated from being forced to use “web safe” fonts? You may decide to use images instead of fonts so that you can keep the font in your design. Replacing text with images tends to leave search engines a little clueless as to what your website is talking about. So you may ask “Tom, is there a solution to this confounded problem?”, I am replying with a “YES!”.
Monthly Archives: February 2009
sIFR, any font you want and still search engine safe!
Posted by Tom Schultz on February 28, 2009
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# Python Dictionary Coolness
Posted by Eric Shull on February 25, 2009
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Lately I’ve been working with dictionaries, specifically as a device for storing settings. I ran into a little annoyance and thought of programming a little routine to take care of it. Come to find out, Python already has such a routine built into the dictionary class. Read on to find out more.
Open a can of spam on 194.8.75.149
Posted by Tom Schultz on February 25, 2009
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So I’ve been getting a lot of visits from the IP 194.8.75.149 for the last week or so.
All the visits are to my ppc-6800 post about sprint adding picture mail to the mogul.
In any case, it’s annoying me and I really wish they would stop. Here is a whois and google search for the offending IP.
# OpenGL in Python
Posted by Eric Shull on February 24, 2009
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Somebody has worked out an OpenGL wrapper for Python. The installation steps are here, but I found them a bit non-trivial. Here’s what it will take to get going.
Episode #3
Posted by Tom Schultz on February 22, 2009
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Pointless Rants Episode #3
We’re on iTunes! Yay!
Would you go to a Microsoft store to see all their toys in action?
Apparently the term “Netbook” was trademarked a long time ago by a company called Psion.
sIFR and CSS Zen Garden are awesome.
Why are baby-boomer’s on Facebook all of a sudden?
Topics
- Microsoft Store
- sIFR
- Netbook a trademark?
- CSS Zen Garden
- Facebook baby boomers
We’re on iTunes!
Posted by Tom Schultz on February 19, 2009
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Ok, now I’m not especially a fan of iTunes but it’s decent enough and has a lot of users. So, for our podcasts to be published on itunes is very exciting! I’ll be watching the google analytics to see if there’s any spike in traffic. At very least this will be a good experiement!
Thanks, iTunes, for quickly approving the podcast!
# Iterators
Posted by Eric Shull on February 18, 2009
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I got the Gang of Four book on design patterns a couple of years ago and it was way beyond me (Alex Martelli at Google doesn’t suggest it as an introduction, I’ve since learned). I still haven’t mastered it, but every now and then I do find a useful idea.
Let me introduce you to the object-oriented idea of iterators.
