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Curved corners script for Photoshop

Published by Ryan on March 20th, 2010

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 web site. The problem is that it was a series of actions. As in one action for each radii. One for 5px, one for 10px, one for 25px, etc. That’s just screaming to be scripted with a quick prompt asking for a radius.

So that’s what I did. About half an hour and I had a script that would prompt for a radius and then round off whatever image was opened.

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Event tracking with JavaScript

Published by Ryan on March 19th, 2010

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 photography forum of mine.  But I didn’t want to have to go through every link prior to displaying the page.  Seemed like a perfect time for a little bit of Javascript. 

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Teaching recursion with Scratch BYOB

Published by Ryan on March 6th, 2010

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 teach in Scratch; so we introduced them in Alice this past year.  It worked ok, but we haven’t been able to come up with any really good labs that explain the purpose of parameters well to the students.

This past week I came across an extended version of Scratch called Scratch BYOB, or Build Your Own Block.  And it does exactly what I was looking for.  It gives you the ability to create methods and optionally include parameters.

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First post with MarsEdit

Published by Ryan on February 13th, 2010

If you read the post up from this you’ll see that I just tried out Qumana and wasn’t all that happy with it. It was nice to be able to blog without logging into WordPress, but it had a couple of deal breakers for me.

Unfortunately none of the free solutions I’ve come across have looked to do what I wanted. So it’s off to try a few of the free demos. The first one I’m looking at is MarsEdit.

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How to wrap a SMF forum in WordPress

Published by Ryan on August 16th, 2009

After spending the better part of yesterday getting a forum setup with the same layout as its parent WordPress site I thought I’d share a couple of tips along the way.

And I picked a less efficient way, including wp-blog-header.php in the forum code, because it was far easier. At some point I may go back and cache the WordPress pieces on the blog side and use those cache files on the SMF side, at which point none of this would be necessary. But for now it’s working.

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