CSS Optimizer .8 is now available. This release finalizes the long-hand to short-hand converter which now supports all short-hand CSS properties. The command line argument parser is also improved and is much more flexible, I’ve also fixed some minor bugs and improved error checking/reporting. I also uploaded the updated source code. Enjoy!
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I’ve been looking at iPodLinux for awhile now wanting to put it on my 4g iPod, unfortunately iPodLinux does not officially support the 4g’s yet and from looking at previous posts on the iPodLinux forums they will not offer help if can’t figure out how to install it from their directions on their web-site; which were a little too vague for me. Somebody put together exactly the type of directions I was looking for which made it easy, actually almost too easy to install it on my iPod. Thanks to exDev for the great directions! Its pretty cool to have linux on my iPod, the iPodLinux team did a great job on this software- but it’s not near finished…
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App Stop is a little application that allows you to pause an resume an application thus allowing other applications to use the CPU time previously occupied by that application. Right now its in its very early stages, and there is alot I am planning on adding to it, but its perfectly stable and works fine.
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After lots of hard work, I’ve finally finished CSS Optimizer V.7. Improvements in this version include: Recursive directory searching support. Specify a directory and use the -r option to optimize all the CSS files contained in the specified folder. Much better filesystem support. New -s & -n options. Better command line argument parser. Download it here. Read the readme that comes with the application for more information on how it works. All the source code is now available for download, if you compile it for windows or linux please send me the binary so i can post it on the product page. Recently, I came across Crockford.com. On his site he has an application called JSMin, which does the same thing as CSS Optimizer; just for javascript…
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Recently, while building my new version of my flash web-site I had a problem with a free pixel font i downloaded from Orgdot. Here were the symptoms of my problem: If I embedded the pixel font it would blur when used with a dynamic text field. The same pixel font would not blur if in a static text field. The pixel font would not blur in a dynamic text field that used system (A.K.A. device) fonts. Flash did not give me any errors when embedding the font. The windows version of the same font caused the Flash IDE to hang when it embedded the font (IE when the movie was published) I was following standard pixel font guidelines, sizes in multiples of 8, integer coordinates, 100% _xscale & _yscale…
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Patrick Mineault has announced on his the AMFPHP Web-Site contest. The prizes look awesome, if I wasn’t so busy I would probably cook something up.
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Not related to programming or web-design in any way but… Over the weekend my friend and I biked 66 miles across New Jersey, it was a blast. There was miles and miles of flat farmland, a car maybe came by once every 10 or so minutes. I’ve been in what some people would call ‘the middle of nowhere’ (upper NH), but this was seriously in the middle of nowhere, houses were spaced out a minimum of two miles away from each other. Anyway, it was a great experience and I would highly recommend doing it sometime!
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I’ve released my first Cocoa application, Color Blender. I wrote it because I got frustrated when i couldn’t convert a hex value to a rgb value quickly and easily, this immensely slowed down my workflow when trying to pick out a color scheme for a new web-site. Hopefully you will find it useful too. On a side note, a new version of CSS Optimizer, (renamed from Web Optimizer) which will have recursive directory searching support, and much better underlying filesystem support, among other things; is almost complete.
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I’ve devised a much better way of developing Flash with Xcode then what i previously posted. It uses the custom ‘Shell Script’ build phase in Xcode to call the Mtasc compiler. There are a number of advantages of this method over the applescript->Xmtasc->Flash Player route that was posted earlier: If their is an error in your AS code mtasc will exit with a non-zero status, the shell script will exit with an error if mtasc exits with an error…
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I’ve successfully finished my site for the May 1st Re-boot- almost. There are still a few loose ends I have to tie up with the site, including finishing the portfolio section & making my HTML site valitate correctly; but for the most part its done. Hopefully i’ll have more time to work on this site now, I have a bunch of stuff I have to share. On a side note, I’ve received Apples new OS- 10.4 Tiger. Quite simply, its incredible. The best feature that I’ve found so far is the speed, my mac feels like it just gained 200+Mhz, the UI and the file system are incredibly faster.
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