Welcome rebooters! You probably stumbled upon my site via the front page of CSS Reboot where this site is featured as one of 50 premium rebooters. My redesign for PaulStamatiou.com was supposed to come in time for my spring break but it took longer than expected so I launched it on March 31st, exactly one month ago, with this post. My old design, which I have released, was a skinny single-column mod of the K2 theme. The design you are currently looking at, dubbed Defiance, was my attempt at a more professional design allowing me to show more content (many of my guides are lengthy, making reading them on a skinny layout a challenge) and provide for easier navigation. [click to continue…]
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Take a look at this 5 minute screencast showing you how to make a simple, AJAX-ified web application that loads images from flickr using the Ruby on Rails platform. Many new database-backed web services are using Ruby on Rails to accomplish things with ease compared to the older PHP methods. I’m not one to code when bored but RoR is an intriguing open-source framework. Browsing at job listings, it seems that RoR is more and more frequently becoming a recommended skillset. [click to continue…]
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Wondering why one of your OS X applications seems a little sluggish on your Intel Mac? Maybe it is running through Rosetta translation and could be a PPC application. Well there is an easy way to find out via Activity Monitor. Fire up Activity Monitor in Applications » Utilities. You will see a column on the right labeled kind. Simply enough it tells you whether that application is “Intel” or “PowerPC.” This is especially good for Mac users that [click to continue…]
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Yes, dead week and finals have reared their ugly and mischievous heads. This is just a little fyi for everyone about a slow down in posts for the next week or so. On campus, dead week is the term for the week before finals week, supposedely exempt of all assignments, and it generally portrays two main emotions about students. There are the students bogged down with projects and assignments that get no sleep and then there are the students with nothing that are generally happy, don’t go to class, game all night or finish off their alcohol before their parents come up the next week. I am the student with lots of projects on my hands. Here’s a list. [click to continue…]
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