Posts Tagged ‘desktop’
As usual, I’m sharing a solution a problem that I personally encountered and couldn’t find a great solution for. So I’ve been using my laptop more and more as my local development environment in order to keep things private and secure while in the dev stage. Among learning how to fully utilize SVN locally, I’ve been trying to setup my laptop to be a fully functional server while also being extremely easy to maintain and change my environment on the fly. To do this, I’m running MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) available for free at mamp.info as well as the Zend Framework bundled with Zend Tool.
I love learning new programming languages, especially if it solves a need that I have and automates my process a bit more. I spent a couple hours learning AppleScript which is a programming language for Mac that let’s you access the API and make basic function calls to cocoa based programs and applications. One such need that I had is compressing my JavaScript and CSS files before uploading to the web server. There are many applications and ways to this online, but they all are three or more steps to get the compressed file. A while back I downloaded the YUI java applet to do the compression on my desktop via Terminal, which sped up my process a bit, but since I only used it once in a great while, I’d always have to look up the parameters that I needed to pass to it. So today when I went to look it up, I decided I was going to be adventurous and try something new. That adventure led me to a solution that I’m happy with, and you may enjoy as well.
Learning keyboard shortcuts helps you improve efficiency and performance in any almost any program. I find this especially true for Photoshop since much of the design process is done with a mouse, it helps to train the other hand to use shortcuts and type in small amounts. In posting this, I hope to reference it myself to memorize and learn these shortcuts, and hopefully others will bookmark and reference this page as well.
I’m working on the re-design of this site right now because i want a little of my own special touch to it. Don’t get me wrong, i love the layout and the color scheme, but i want to go for something a little more.. me. I’ve been playing around with some ideas for backgrounds but [...]
Another wallpaper I made for Chosen. It was really simple to create this washed out look in photoshop, I’ll briefly outline the process. Create a Document at the dimensions you want (1024 x 768 is usually minimum standard. If you’re on a laptop 1280 x 800 is a common resolution) Create a subtle gradient background [...]
I decided to do some organization and cleaning of my computer and found some old wallpapers I made. Some are pretty cool, most are pretty basic. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, they say. Take ‘em or leave ‘em.
