New Splash
Saturday, 17 January 2009
As much as I like the blog, it really needs some kinda intro to introduce the user and welcome them in; so tonight I sat down determined to put together a new design.
Work in progress
Splash Screen Managers
Monday, 03 November 2008
Wanted to change the default splash screen on Ubuntu, thankfully found a good GUI tool to do this for me,
sudo apt-get install startupmanager
After changing your settings it'll want to rebuild the kernel and play with your menu.lst file (obviously), safest I've found so far but do use sparingly.
Linux - Better Screen Fonts
Sunday, 11 May 2008
If you've just switched over to Linux, you're probably hating the default monospaced font; thankfully I've found some better ones...
Liberation
On May 9, 2007, Red Hat announced the public release of these fonts under the trademark LIBERATION at the Red Hat Summit. You are free to use these fonts on any system you would like. You are free to redistribute them under the GPL+exception license found in the download.
,,,this is now obtainable in the package repository,
sudo aptitude install ttf-liberation
Lucidia Grande
AppleGaramond, Aquabase, LITHOGRL, Lucida Grande, Lucida Mac, lucon, MacGrand
Thanks to Nylock for sharing this fonts with us
Installing
Once downloaded, usually to your desktop, you're going to need to install them into your system to use. They need to be copied to the /usr/share/fonts directory.
First unzip the files, then open Terminal and...
cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype
sudo mkdir liberation
sudo mkdir apple-fonts
Here, you've moved into the location where the System's fonts are stored, then created one directory for the liberation fonts (worth having), and the apple fonts.
Now copy the files to each directory from the desktop to liberation & apple-fonts,
sudo cp /home/[user]/Desktop/liberation-fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation
sudo cp /home/[user]/Desktop/fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/truetype/apple-fonts
Final bit, refresh the font cache...
sudo fc-cache -vf
Logout, login and your ready to use them.
SEO + Sitemaps + Screen Scraping all in Rails
Friday, 10 August 2007
Still improving my lil’ demo apps code I’ve moved on to create more permalink google-friendly site structures and reading data off RSS feeds.
So in the benefit of others, here’s what I found,
SEO on Rails …nice blog on integrating basic SEO tactics into your rails app, friendly permalinks, url mapping and dynamic metatags.
Screen Scraping …good in-depth article on screen scraping with Rails, pulling off html data from a target website (e.g. Twitter) to import into your database
Google / Yahoo Sitemaps …excellent article showing how to get your Rails App to create Yahoo / Google compatible sitemaps using the in-built XML features of Ruby.
Enjoy,
John.
