Monthly Archives: February 2011

So two weeks work later.

Posted on February 24, 2011 by diziet

And I have a reasonably themed wordpress install, integrated with a reasonably themed bbpress install. Not bad having never touched html or css before. Now I just need to gather those screenshots up. So, it’s kinda live: Chef’s Book I … Continue reading →

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DynDNS.org + Bash + Router == A tiny bit safer.

Posted on February 19, 2011 by diziet

Pondering how to lock down a few bits to just an IP or two I hacked together this awful bit of bash: #!/bin/bash function valid_ip() { local ip=$1 local stat=1 if [[ $ip =~ ^[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}$ ]]; then OIFS=$IFS IFS=’.’ ip=($ip) … Continue reading →

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Getting the hang of css.

Posted on February 18, 2011 by diziet

There’s some really nice stuff you can do in CSS, one of which is getting rid of graphics for borders, backgrounds, and buttons. Transparency is a boon as well allowing good styling with minimal effort, in my case surrounding pre … Continue reading →

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An interesting week

Posted on February 17, 2011 by diziet

I think I’ve made around 5 abortive attempts to submit my app now, that’s no reflection on the quality of the app store or the submissions process but on where my brain has been focused. Purely on the development of … Continue reading →

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Whilst deciding what to include with the App, we write a PDF generator!

Posted on February 8, 2011 by diziet

Managed to implement rendering of recipes into multipage PDF documents. They look something like this: Lasagne Recipe One thing to note whilst writing the code was the usual inverted co-ordinates. I wanted an image in the top left, title and … Continue reading →

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Nearing release, implement shiny things whilst waiting.

Posted on February 6, 2011 by diziet

As the project nears release my thoughts turn to what will be needed in the near future and how best to solve an intermittent bug that’s present now. The bug was resolving by doing something I should have done ages … Continue reading →

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Want to backup files in windows the linux way?

Posted on February 4, 2011 by diziet

Download this cwRsync. Which is rsync packaged up for windows, and create a small script like this to run as administrator: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL REM ** CUSTOMIZE ** Specify where to find rsync and related files (C:\CWRSYNC) SET CWRSYNCHOME=”c:\Program Files … Continue reading →

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