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Following jQuery on Twitter

Posted on Sunday, 6th July 2008 by admin

The Weblog Tools Collections made a list of people in the Wordpress community that it recommends you follow on Twitter. I haven’t seen this anywhere else, so I thought I’d compile a list of jQuery-centric people that you should follow on Twitter in no particular order…

John Resig (Twitter) (Website)
Rey Bango (Twitter) (Website)
Rick Strahl (Twitter) (Website)
Remy Sharp (Twitter) (Website)
Jörn Zaefferer (Twitter) (Website)
Mike Alsup (Twitter) (Website)
Klaus Hartl (Twitter) (Website)
Benjamin Sterling (Twitter) (Website)
Brandon Aaron (Twitter) (Website)
Karl Swedberg (Twitter) (Website)
Marc Grabinski (Twitter) (Website)
Richard D. Worth (Twitter) (Website)
Scott Jehl (Twitter) (Website)
Jonathan Sharp (Twitter) (Website)
Felix Geisendörfer (Twitter) (Website)
Paul Bakaus (Twitter) (Website)
Ariel Flesler (Twitter) (Website)
Yehuda Katz (Twitter) (Website)

…and of course, the official jQuery and jQuery UI Twitter feeds…

…finally, you can follow me on Twitter too.

If I’ve forgotten any, please let me know in the comments. The jQuery community is growing leaps and bounds every day, and it is hard to keep up on all of them.

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Copyrighted Scripture

Posted on Monday, 30th June 2008 by admin

I can only assume that religious bigotry and prejudice is driving their activity, as there is no altruistic value in posting our copyrighted scriptures, despite Wikileaks’ self-serving statements to the contrary. -[Source] Emphasis is mine

Copyrighting your scriptures as a means to suppress speaks volumes about an organization, especially a religious one. Poor Guttenberg would have been an unknown.

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Image Magick with Visual Foxpro

Posted on Monday, 30th June 2008 by admin

ImageMagick is versatile enough to use from a multitude of languages. Back in January of 2006, I used it in Visual Foxpro 7 to create thumbs and mid size images for an image gallery that ended up not being used. Here is the source to do that.

loMagickImage = Createobject("ImageMagickObject.MagickImage") lcSourceFile = "C:\uploads\"+Alltrim(gFileList.FILENAME) lcThumbnailFile = "C:\uploads\thumb_"+Alltrim(gFileList.FILENAME) lcMidFile = "C:\uploads\mid_"+Alltrim(gFileList.FILENAME) loMagickImage.Convert("-resize", "x128", lcSourceFile, lcThumbnailFile) loMagickImage.Convert("-resize", "x512", lcSourceFile, lcMidFile) loMagickImage = .Null.

Make sure that you check the option labeled “Install ImageMagickObject OLE Control for VBscript, Visual Basic, and WSH” during the install or else you won’t be able to call it from VFP or any other language.