Sunday, November 11, 2007

Coda-ing

I am now using Coda.

Used up the tryout period and have now committed some money for real!

What a tremendous tool this is but wait.... I still have some niggles. I love it but how can I deal with all the other lovely tools that now clutter my applications folder. What shall I do with BBedit? And what of TextMate? My students need to use Dreamweaver (unfortunately), so I still need to know all about that too. 

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Twittering

Late to the party as usual but ...

I am using Twitter to log my every day activities. When the mood strikes me though!

You can see the results on my own site here using a Plug-in for ExpressionEngine. 

Friday, February 16, 2007

Bringing PHP and XML together

We must be grateful to Kerri Hicks for this article (PHP and XML Sitting in a Tree) over at Digital Web

Kerry points out that with PHP 5 we can use a new function called SimpleXML that makes it very easy to extract data from an XML file and display on a web page. She has some interesting examples including getting book data from the ISBN database. Just one problem - you must have PHP5. Right now I don’t have this here, so time to get in touch with my hosts!

Sourced at Digital Web: Latest Articles

Friday, February 02, 2007

Reuters Issues Guidelines on Photoshop Use

A few months ago, top news agency Reuters was severely criticized for publishing digitally altered photos from Lebanon. The unfortunate incident is now better known as the “Adnan Hajj photographs controversy,” leaving a dark blemish in the use of digital photography for news reportage.

Sourced at The Blog Herald

Friday, January 12, 2007

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Released on Labs

For the first time ever, Adobe is delivering a widely available Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta to enable existing Photoshop CS2 customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Apple’s new Intel based systems. The beta is available…

Sourced at Adobe Labs