Last thursday the agency I work for – LBi London – organised the biggest digital industry rave party in London. Around 700 people from loads of different digital agencies in London came to join the fun. Here’s some pics from the night: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmaandlorenzo/sets/72157622760985539/ …needless...
After quite some time talking about how great IntelliJ feels for Flash development, I just read a really great article on InsideRIA that correctly describes my love and hate… erm… well more like not-so-much-love about IntelliJ.
Here you go folks:
http://www.insideria.com/2010/01/intellij-idea-9-for-flash-dev.html
I can finally announce my final work while at LBi, and what a work it was!
4 weeks of intense out-of-work-hours coding and planning, but the results are great!
Ill leave you to play… http://xmas.lbi.co.uk
( unfortunately it seems it only lasted christmas )
http://www.lbi.co.uk/our-work/a-christmas-collaboration/
Find more photos like this on The LBi Upcycle Xmas Grotto
Just saw a cool post you Youtube of the making of! Thanks guys!
Last thursday the agency I work for – LBi London – organised the biggest digital industry rave party in London.
Around 700 people from loads of different digital agencies in London came to join the fun.
Here’s some pics from the night:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmaandlorenzo/sets/72157622760985539/
…needless to say I had a sick leave the next day 
Uhhh… there’s a couple of words that always make my blood freeze and dodge for cover…. “regex” is definitely one of them.
But it seems I need to fear no more… just recently discovered “RegExr”! which has been a great helping hand at solving most of my anyday regex needs.
Its also comunity open, so you can see already alot of user input with new regex solutions for most everyday needs.
Check it out! http://gskinner.com/RegExr/
How many… oh how many times you crash into the same subject again and again, you are given Mac fonts but hey… dont work in Windows :s … and most importantly… no Embedding in Flash as its only either TrueType or OpenType.
Well atleast now a blog post came as a nice surprise to me… a little opensource terminal app called “fondu”
just install via MacPorts or apt-get and go…
” fondu myFont.dfont ”
and the app will extract all your TrueType goodness into the same folder neat!
many thanks to…
http://fosswire.com/post/2008/5/extract-mac-font-files-dfont-into-ttf-files/
For a while now I have been using Mercurial for my own personal version control system, been very happy and never really got dissapointed so far, hg-serve works really easy for serving your repository publicaly with its own menus and stuff… not visually engaging but does the job well.
Ive been trying and little by little I guess moving the git way… mostly to be honest because the world around me seems to use it, and because I really cant be bothered to try and master to version control systems at once, so Mercurial seems great and maybe even better… but ill focus most of my time now on git.
Which leads me to my experience so far, so its pretty much the same syntax to be honest and leaves me quite happy.
But my problems have been on trying to serve my reps publicly, I wont even go on about configuring gitosis because that one has been giving me a bit of a headache to the honest.
But on a recent project I have been working on with a friend I wanted to do things right and have him be able to have pull rights to see the updates on the project as I go along. Well…. after many tries on using the git daemon and running into all sorts of nonsense errors, I decided to simply make a symlink to a protected directory on my www and have him clone/pull through http://
Well that worked well for the cloning, but then as I did my updates, on his end he kept seing “Already-up-to-date” which didnt quite seem right.
And all this post just to write a little tip if you are trying to do something similar…
Git has kind of like an event system called “hooks” (.git/hooks) which get triggered upon certain functions getting executed. So for my case I activated the hook ‘post-update’ which gets triggered when a push gets completed to the server and calls git to “update-server-info”, updating the needed information for pull’s to work as they should.
Ok so this was way of a bigger post then I expected… but I guess it makes for all the times I think about writting and then dont… duhhh! 
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The funny speaks for itself really… hehe…
I know I know its been ages since I blogged, and ill write a “Yes yes its been ages” one very soon… but before I do that, I wanted to share a recent video that made me laugh more then most videos in a long time…
This was a very interesting article I just came across at Techmeme.
I guess it was coming to this, the world being more and more opensource, community driven, cloud based applications, and Microsoft still trying to push the same old things over and over again.
Dont get me wrong, as Ive been a Windows user for many many years, and used to get excited way back to the QBasic years, but after realising how I didnt need to be fighting with the machinefor it to do what I simply needed it to do – in Unix based systems like Linux/OSX, I really could not go back again, and realised how people have to go around to, to get the simple task done.
Here you go:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-the-party-over-for-microsoft-2009-07-24
Saw this on someone’s signature in a forum, and just I should share it
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* I think I’ve got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^,
* F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye,
* stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup,
* PF4, F20, ^X^X, 
::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown,
* init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, …
* … “Are you sure?” … YES … Phew … I’m out
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