The digital team at Marque have been trying to get into the habit of releasing some of the nice code we write, as our way of giving something back to the community.
For the first of these releases, James has created a variation of the Lightbox technique which is capable of true fullscreen display - particularly nifty if you’re displaying hi-resolution photography.
Check out SWF Lightbox on the new Marque Digital blog.
Oktapodi is a short film by a group of students from the renowned French design school Gobelins which has as much charm, personality and humour as anything I’ve seen from Pixar.
Here’s a link to the movie, in .mov format (40mb). Don’t forget to check out the Oktapodi website for the making of video!
Via Motionographer.
I was trying to share a folder across our local network a moment ago and no matter what permissions I gave it, it wouldn’t appear for anyone accessing my computer as a Guest. Cue one of those head-slapping moments when the problem, and solution, suddenly becomes alarmingly obvious.
If you’re having the same problems, chances are you’re sharing a sub-folder whose parent isn’t configured for sharing. In my case, I was trying to share the iTunes Music folder (full path from home directory Music/iTunes/iTunes Music) but in this case, both the Music/ and Music/iTunes/ folders didn’t have the appropriate permissions for sharing, so OS X was correctly preventing anyone else from accessing it.
Solution is simple - I shared the Music/ folder instead.
Gavin posted a link on Twitter earlier to Face Your Manga, which lets you easily create Manga-style avatars. Funky.
Here’s Sarah’s attempts at the two of us. Amazing how she captured both the scruffiness and surliness!
For anyone working on a Rails application which deals with countries or languages, the official source of data is the International Standards Association, specifically ISO 3166 for countries and ISO 639 for languages.
To make it easier to get this data into your Rails application, I’ve created two generators which automatically create the models, migrations and data you’ll need and bundled them up in a handy Rails plug-in.
Usage couldn’t be simpler…
script/plugin install git://github.com/cameronyule/isodata.git
If you want country data…
script/generate countries
rake db:migrate
rake isodata:db:countries…and for languages…
script/generate languages
rake db:migrate
rake isodata:db:languagesCheck out the isodata project on Github.
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