Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Tidbits for Saturday, 10 December 2005

Tidbits for the week ending Saturday, December 10, 2005:

  • A fantastic example of using JavaScript to provide dynamic image resizing. (Via Daring Fireball)
  • How to write unmaintainable code.
  • Treehouse
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Migration to WordPress from Movable Type on MacOS X and Linux

After three years of using Movable Type, I decided to migrate my weblog over to the open-source WordPress weblogging systems. This article documents the process, and some of the details.

Why?

Some of

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In Search of One True Layout

One of these days I'm going to find the time to become expert in CSS-based layout, and stop with my lazy table-based tendencies (mainly because of the semantic advantages.) When I do, I'll be

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Gracie-Barra BH Marbella Weblog Launch

As a first WordPress website, I've reworked and relaunched the website of our local Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu / Grappling martial arts club — Gracie Barra BH Marbella (a.k.a. Marbella Submission Fighters).

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WordPress Pages or Posts?

I've nearly decided to use WordPress to implement our company's intranet. I'm thinking that I'll use the key/value meta facility to assign content to groups, and then add some http authentication to

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Add the date to the MacOS X menu bar.

Tip of the day: Add the date to the MacOS X menu bar. (Via Tao of Mac)

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Lost

In anticipation of the arrival of my new video iPod, we just purchased and downloaded the first season of "Lost" from the Apple Music Store. I don't plan on watching the video on the iPod, but

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Favorite Macintosh OSX Applications

A friend of mine just bought an iMac and asked me for some Mac OS X application recommendations, providing as good an opportunity as ever to create a new permanent weblog article to maintain a list

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Hacho de Pizarra, Spain

Today's outing took us on this gorgeous day to nearby Pizarra. From Marbella, we took the Ojen highway to Coin, then on to Cártama, and then on to Pizarra—all in all, about a 45-minute drive.

In the

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Encrypting multiple files using PGP 9 on Mac OS X

The most annoying thing I've found in PGP 9 is its seeming inability to encrypt multiple files individually. If I select multiple files to be encrypted, PGP 9 will create a single, generically

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