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Archive for September 2010

The GIMP metal wires and abstract background tutorial.

Every WIPUP release, an abstract art splash image is created to commemorate it. Whenever I create one of these my preferred tool of choice is The GIMP. Although in many ways The GIMP isn’t as "powerful" as Photoshop, I still manage to do stuff I’d like to do with it. My recent splash image used [...]

WIPUP 23.09.10b released!

Yep, WIPUP, the lightweight, open-source way to share your works-in-progresses just got a lovely update today. It’s a minor update but minor updates are needed sometimes. Check it out here, and read the release notes. The charming splash screen above was done by me on The GIMP. If enough people like it (just drop me [...]

Progress on E2 Portfolio

E2-Productions.com was my first ever (proper) website. I’ve recently been in the progress of converting it into a dynamically-updated online portfolio/playground. It pulls results from my WIPUP WIPSpace and displays them in a unique, portfolio-worthy layout. Last weekend I got the opportunity to turn one of my ideas into code – but there are still [...]

Evolution

Recently I learned that Evolution can take as long as millions of years to do anything interesting even though it’s constantly occuring in the background. Thank goodness I use KMail.

Walkthrough of a CSS3 website design slice.

Slicing is a sign of a terrible golfer. Slicing is also the process of cutting up an image design into smaller images and writing markup code to turn it into a living, breathing website. I recently got a request from a friend to slice their portfolio website. Here is the original design he sent to [...]

Tech tip #8: Browse Amarok’s embedded MySQL database.

Amarok can probably be called one of Linux’s flagship programs. However since the upgrade from Amarok 1 to Amarok 2 there have been quite a number of controversial changes. One of these changes is that Amarok switched from an SQLite database to a MySQL database to store song information, however whether or not this was [...]