BettieThe Zen of Python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13) [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. [read more]
How to free up space on Ubuntu's boot partition
How to free up room on /boot If you've been running Ubuntu for a while and have a smallish /boot drive, then chances are you might run out of space on it. This happens to me at least every few months and this is what I do: [read more]
My Coding Journey
Why did I learn to code and how long did it take? These burning questions answered here! An Early Start To kick off this story, a bit about my background: my father taught programming at IBM (Assembly / ASM and COBOL) and worked in the software industry. We had a computer for as far back as I can remember (I was allowed to make cards in Harvard Graphics when I was a little kid, and was taught binary super early on). Knowing how to fix our computer before my parents got home turned out to be an important skill if I wanted to be able to continue to play computer games. [read more]
2015 in Review
2015 Well it was a good year, but now it’s over. I did a lot of study, worked on my projects a bit, but not as much as just writing a bit of code for fun and course work. It was a bit of a strange year, for example I did a marketing campaign for a client and I’m still not really sure why. [read more]
WordPress: I quit. Hello, Jekyll
WordPress and I have been friends for about eight years. I’d been a fan of using Drupal (before deciding that it was overkill for those “one website please” requests) and used Magento on a few projects. WordPress edged out the competition as time went by, because they were constantly improving their user interface, things became easier and slicker, and they brought out integrations that made it so that you didn’t have to use anything else (the content management, the WooCommerce integration and so forth). All of this was great. [read more]
Hello World!
This is my first post since moving from WP to Jekyll, so I guess it’s sort of a new blog. I’m keeping this here for reference… [read more]
Work: Sowing Seeds Accounting Services
DescriptionThis website project was created for a bookkeeper client starting a new business. The design was in keeping with the client's tagline "practical accounting for your business growth". I designed the logo and brand identity, created the illustrations and built out the site using WordPress and a custom theme I created. Project type: Website, Print Built using: WordPress, PHP, JavaScript [read more]
Adobe CS4 OpenType Font Problems
I’ve been running CS4 for a little while now on my Win XP workstation (normally the one I use to play games but it’s a beast so I figured it’‘d run CS4 well and it’s cheaper than the fancy iMac of my dreams), but I had pretty much none of the fonts install properly during the initial installation. I thought that perhaps the font problem had to do with my virus protection but I noticed even with virus protection disabled that installing some new fonts would fail, giving me an error that said that the file was corrupted or invalid and that I should contact the font vendor for a new file [read more]
Adobe Cs4 Opentype Font Problems
Adobe CS4 OpenType Font Problems 2009-06-05 13:39:46 I've been running CS4 for a little while now on my Win XP workstation (normally the one I use to play games but it''s a beast so I figured it''d run CS4 well and it''s cheaper than the fancy iMac of my dreams) but I had pretty much none of the fonts install properly during the initial installation. I thought that perhaps the font problem had to do with my virus protection but I noticed even with virus protection disabled that installing some new fonts would fail, giving me an error that said that the file was corrupted or invalid and that I should contact the font vendor for a new file: Cannot activate font "$font_name". Font may be invalid or damaged. Please contact the vendor for a new file. After some experimentation I found that TrueType fonts installed for me just fine and the problem was only with OpenType (OTF) fonts. I did a lot of searching around on the internet, most of the advice was completely useless so I figured I should document this in case someone else has the same issue. The problem was caused by the video driver. I found in my internet travels that some people running Windows Vista and XP had a similar issue with an NVidia driver (I use an ATI Radeon) so I thought updating my driver was worth trying. I downloaded the latest driver for my video card from AMD''s website and restarted (after all, it''s a PC). I then tried to install the OpenType font I recently purchased from Veer and it worked! I then copied the fonts over from CS4''s goodies folder and I now have my fonts available in my CS4 applications and life is sweet once more! Huzzah! [read more]
SpamAssassin version check
I was just trying to figure out how to check the version of SpamAssassin from the command line and this line of perl does the trick, in case you need it (remove the square brackets, of course): [read more]