Yearly Archives: 2004

I posted a new section to the GIMP Gallery to display the artwork I’ve been doing for Linux Format magazine. Linux Format is a glossy print publication from Future Publishing targeted and end users and is published in the UK. Note that their web site doesn’t do their publication justice, […]

GIMP Gallery updated

Fri December 17, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux / linux format / Writing (updated 7083 days ago)

This past weekend marked the official start of the holiday season in the US. We call it Thanksgiving but it’s really just a 4 day weekend to prep for the craziness of the end-of-year festivities. My family celebrated with dual Thanksgiving dinners – one on Thursday with my inlaws and […]

Holidays and projects

Sun November 28, 2004 in General / Linux / Software Development / Writing tagged GIMP / graphics / holiday / Linux / rpm / ximba / xnotesplus (updated 7102 days ago)

The text overflowing into the right hand column has been fixed under IE for all the ximba.org pages. It was an easyfix once I found what the problem was (using “right: 235px” instead of “margin-right: 235px”). I also fixed up the fonts a bit so they look cleaner under both […]

Ximba issues with XP fixed

Thu November 25, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged ximba

I found some minor one-off bugs in xn-todos.c last night and fixed them. I also had to do a uniqueness test on the XNotes categories I pulled from the note fields. But after that the program worked as expected. I tried it integrated with XNotesPlus’ Pilot Manager and it worked […]

Category edit support complete

Thu November 25, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged xnotesplus

The problems with my CSS layout under Windows XP – Firefox and IE – had to do with positioning. In the case of IE, the side menu bars needed to be placed with position: absolute (they still need to be moved to be direct children of the body element in […]

CSS rules

Tue November 23, 2004 in General (updated 7107 days ago)

Well, it’s not actually hell but it is more work than you might expect. When I recently tried to build GIMP 2.0 I found that the configure script said I needed fontconfig v2.x, whereas my RH9 system has fontconfig 1.x. After waiting around while the fontconfig host site (freedesktop.org) was […]

GIMP 2.0 building and dependency hell

Tue November 23, 2004 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Software Development tagged Fedora / GIMP / rpm (updated 7107 days ago)

I did a little research this morning and found some potential fixes to the fixed positioning problems under IE. There is Eric Bednarz’s solution, which includes references to using IE’s conditional comments to load appropriate CSS styles. And then there is a thread form 2003 on WebmasterWorld.com that gives specific […]

Fixed Positioning for IE

Tue November 23, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged java / Linux (updated 7106 days ago)

I tried out my new design under Win/XP using both IE and Firefox. IE displays it okay but the menus are not laid out in abosolute positions on the left and right sides. They probably need to be pulled out of the main “rap” div to get that to work. […]

WP under Winblows

Sun November 21, 2004 in Art and Graphics

I’ve fixed the read_file() bugs so now xn-todos will correctly stuff Todos with unknown categories into Unfiled and stash an XML tag with the XNotes category in the Notes field. This works well on the outbound data. Now I have to muck with the inbound data. And therein lies a […]

xn-todos: write_file() issues with categories

Sun November 21, 2004 in Linux / Software Development (updated 7108 days ago)

I played with WordPress yesterday and, if you’ve been here before, you can see the results. I changed to a three column layout and modified the header block so its a big ol’ image. I’m not completely crazy about the colors – they don’t look so good on my LCD […]

New WP design

Fri November 19, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged Wordpress (updated 7111 days ago)

I finally got a chance to test the changes to xn-todos. Somehow they’ve broken something. I get a segfault on todos.description in the read_file() function, line 487. I may look at this at work, but I can’t test it till I get home. Related posts No related posts.

xn-todos broken

Fri November 19, 2004 in Linux / Software Development (updated 7111 days ago)

Last month I stumbled across a color chooser called ColorMixers. Today I found another one: Visibone. This one is a little nicer in that the colors you choose are listed with three letter codes using their color in each other color. In this way you can see how any of […]

Another color chooser for the web

Wed November 17, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged Wordpress (updated 7113 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

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