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Free Font: Handy, a clean handwritten font 28 Oct 2010 | 02:21 am
I’ve created a really simple handwritten font. It’s very complete, with all sorts of symbols and non-English characters (such as á). Here’s a screenshot: Handy - a simple easy-to-read handwritten fon...
Free font: a simple handwritten font 29 Sep 2010 | 10:41 pm
I’ve created a simple handwritten font. I’m providing this for free (although donations for commercial use would we appreciated). Feel free to use this or edit it. Example page. Download TrueType fo...
Two color text header 28 Sep 2010 | 08:39 pm
Here’s a nice HTML and CSS trick – making text split with different colors. The trick is to make 2 DIVs with the same text content in the same place (using CSS position) and make the top one a differ...
Creating a font for a website with open source software (GlyphTracer, FontForge and the Gimp) 24 Sep 2010 | 03:09 am
I’ve been using all free open source software to make fonts recently. It’s been great fun and quite easy. I’m using the Gimp, GlyphTracer and FontForge. I’m working on Linux but I’m sure you can get t...
Getting started with the Linux command line interface 20 Aug 2010 | 10:32 pm
If you ever used DOS or the command prompt on Windows machines then just forget everything you’ve seen. The linux command line interface (CLI) is amazingly flexible and powerful. Here are some essenti...
WordPress plugin to share posts via facebook, twitter etc 13 Aug 2010 | 10:40 pm
Social media is often used to help publicise blog posts. Here’s a little WordPress plugin which adds links to the bottom of a post to share it by Email, StumbleUpon, Digg, Facebook and twitter. jw-sh...
How to see what’s going on in your mysql database (linux) 17 Jul 2010 | 12:06 am
You can see every SQL command which your mysql database receives. In your mysql interface you can set where the log file will be written to and then turn on the logging option (change log filename as...
How to follow what’s going on in your Apache server logs (linux) 17 Jul 2010 | 12:04 am
At the command line type: tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log As apache requests are received you’ll see information about them appear on screen. Can’t find the log file? Try this: find /var -nam...
How to get the entire page content in WordPress 18 Jun 2010 | 05:27 am
It’s quite difficult to get the entire page content in a WordPress plugin. I eventually got this code to work. It requires two action handlers, one for the “send_headers” action just after the HTTP he...
Natural language web design program 8 Jun 2010 | 10:21 pm
I’ve been playing around with natural language processing again. It’s really nice to communicate with a program using text commands rather than messing about with buttons and dialog boxes. I’ve been ...
