Photorealistic Vector Art
It’s hard to believe that these images are vector art and not actual photos.
{ Monthly Archives }
August 2006
Uno - Unified look for OSX
Uno gives you a unified skin for the different types of apps out there. No more horrid “brushed metal”! Best of all, it’s free.
Del.icio.us, Pukka and (more) AppleScript
Recently I’ve become much enamoured with AppleScript. All those little things you wish you could simplify or do automatically can be made a reality with this wonderful tool.
I’ve also started using del.icio.us after much procrastinating; I’ve been meaning to store and tag my bookmarks somewhere other than on my browser toolbar as they are starting to get a little unmanageable.
In my quest to further remove my need for the mouse, I looked into a handy app to add to my del.icio.us bookmarks straight from Safari. I couldn’t quite find what I was looking for. I did find a very simple but very neat app for creating bookmarks which can be scripted using AppleScript: Pukka.
Custom dispatcher in CherryPy
Despite my previous success in using Routes with CherryPy (partially at least… I never could get URL generation to work properly), I’ve been looking into nice, easy, clean ways to use the default method as a custom dispatcher for a given controller.
For example, the app I’m currently working on is a simple ticket system to handle support requests from clients. I want to be able to access tickets in a semi-RESTful manner:
/ticket/[ticket id]/[action]
This might have been made easier on myself if I’d gone for the URL structure below as all of CherryPy’s methods now allow for positional parameters.
/ticket/[action]/[ticket id]
However, that structure doesn’t work logically in my head and I’m a stickler for detail.