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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Curved corners script for Photoshop
I’ve been looking for an excuse to play around with scripting in Photoshop. Today I found one. I came across a series of actions that rounded off the corners of an image to get it ready for uploading to a … Continue reading
Posted in Programming
Tagged javascript, Photography, photoshop, Programming, web design
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Event tracking with JavaScript
A while back Google added event tracking to Analytics so you could keep track of Javascript and Flash events. Pretty cool feature. Being the stat junkie that I wanted to use this to keep track of outgoing clicks on a … Continue reading
Facebook the most popular site last week
For the first time, Facebook was the most popular site for a full week last week. Facebook had overtaken Google a few times before for a day or so, mostly around holidays. But this was the first time Google fell … Continue reading
Schools trying out 4-day weeks
With budgets getting tighter and tighter some schools are looking at 4-day weeks instead of 5. The fear, of course, is that students will miss out on the education they’re supposed to be getting if their week is shortened. Personally … Continue reading
TinEye – Finding your images on the web
Came across a new search engine called TinEye last week. It lets you either upload or paste a link to an image and it searches its index looking for the same image. For those that make money off of their … Continue reading
Teaching recursion with Scratch BYOB
One of the biggest limits we came across teaching with Scratch this year is the inability to write methods and use parameters. Methods, returns, and parameters are probably the only major concept in our intro CompSci class that we can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Science
Tagged compsci, python, recursion, scratch, sierpinski, teaching
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Should have joined Twitter earlier
For whatever reason, Twitter just never really appealed to me. The idea of limiting myself to 140 characters seemed, well, too limiting. And my first few skims of Twitter had too high of a junk to good stuff ratio. But … Continue reading
…and a test post with myWeblog
Found another offline WordPress editor to try on my MacBook. This time it’s myWeblog 2.1. I like the looks of it. Seems very Mac-like, which I suppose is a good thing. One of the things I’m most looking for, and … Continue reading