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ImageMagick is a cool toolkit; not only it’s a complete set of command-line applications, ported to Windows, Mac and Linux, supporting hundreds of different image formats, it’s also a C++ library that you can use in your own applications!
On Mac OS X, I installed it via MacPorts using the all-time classic:
sudo port install ImageMagick
Then I [...]

estuve jugando un rato con symfony y MAMP, y esta bastante bueno, aunque hay un par de cosas que no me gustaron. aqui van unos comentarios que te podran ser utiles.
me puse a leer las instrucciones de instalacion, y despues encontre el tutorial, de donde saco gran parte de lo que escribire en este articulo.
ahi dice [...]

I’ve just installed the excellent wp-super-cache plugin to accelerate things a bit in this blog; today somebody sent one of my pages to reddit and I’ve had more users than usual! - by the way, thanks for coming! :)
Update: I admit, it also has a bit to do with the reading of today’s entry in [...]

This is the documented path to my discovery of PostgreSQL 8.3, which I’ve never used before. Now that MySQL’s community is getting hammered to death by Sun, and thanks to all the good things I’ve heard about it over the years (including enhanced performance on multicore systems and greater scalability), I really wanted to install [...]

I’ve just had a very interesting conversation with my colleague Marco about different approaches to the organization of code inside a Django application.
As you might know (and if you don’t I’ll tell you anyway), Django’s views (somehow occupying the “Controller” level in an MVC architecture) must take (at least) an HttpRequest instance as a parameter and must [...]

This is an evening project that turned out to be really cool. Let’s say that you’re a Macromedia Flash designer, and your clients ask you to bundle your nice Flash movie as a screen saver. What to do? For Windows there are free utilities to convert a SWF into a screen saver, but not for [...]

I just found this in the SQLite source code, just fantastic:

/************** Begin file sqliteInt.h ***************************************/
/*
** 2001 September 15
**
** The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of
** a legal notice, here is a blessing:
**
** May you do good and not evil.
** May you find forgiveness for [...]

I am a big LaTeX fan, mostly thanks to my friend Cedric who introduced me to it ;) And I don’t regret it at all; there is simply no better way to create long, beautiful PDF documents, particularly during these times of dissertation writing! I’m in my last step towards the Master’s degree I’ve been [...]

Back in 2004 I drafted a content management system based on PHP and AJAX, featuring ideas borrowed from everywhere and that, all in all, formed a rather coherent set. I wrote the system in a couple of days, in my daily commuting between Lausanne and Geneva, and it was called Propano.

One of the best learning tools I have found in my career is to take someone else’s code, and to modify it slightly to see what happens, to play with it, and eventually to release that code in this blog, or send it to the original author, fixing it somehow or adding some feature:

I fixed [...]