Monthly Archives: January 2011

Heroku: I was a little slow on the bandwagon, but I like, a lot!

Seems I have been a little slow to pick up on just how awesome Heroku is. I have been aware of it for a while but was never really bothered enough to take a proper look. Having done so, I am glad I have! I decided to just do a quick app to host a [...]

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Generate website headers using RMagick

I needed to generate some headers in a particular font for a client and rather than do the task using the GIMP I decided to write a ruby script to do it instead. The following code creates separate images with the phrases from the array rendered in a particular font. #!/usr/bin/ruby require ‘rubygems’ require ‘rmagick’ [...]

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Customising an embedded google calendar

A recent client requested a calendar she could use on her website to display events, immediately my thoughts turned to Google calendar. After creating and embedding the Google calendar in an iframe I noticed the style didn’t quite fit with the rest of the site, it looked ok but just didn’t follow suit. I was [...]

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