Old Matt Zaske Blog

Let PDFs Reign! I ran across two very interesting links today, the first of which makes me very excited! It’s a program called CutePDF, and (the basic version, which is free) creates PDF files from anything printable. It works wonderfully, and much better than my previous form of creating PDFs. I was using a free…

Canada Revisited! After much time contemplating this move, I’ve decided to again re-add the Canada trip pictures. They’ve been on a hiatus for at least three years…and it’s time to bring them back. This won’t happen in the immediate future; I’m planning on merging the existing ‘Canada’ website into my personal Web here. But, it…

Let Pictures Be Shown! Okay, the project is nearly complete. After doing the Perl stuff as mentioned in the last news post, I found and implemented a relatively easy thumbnail program which took all the existing images and did what it needed to do. With that said and done, it was now time to hook…

New Stuff! Well, after a somewhat uneventful Sunday (after work, that is)…I’ve come back on Monday (today) to do some stuff. Of course it’s website-related. This evening I modified/wrote a Perl script to display the pictures from MattPictures within a TWiki-style page. It’s not actually a TWiki page, but it does look like one and…

New Pictures! Well, as ‘promised’, I have added some storm pictures to the site. They’re of not the greatest quality, but I took them through the windows of my pickup, which weren’t the cleanest…and also had some glare. But, they’re on the StormPictures? page if you’re curious. I also took some time to add a…

Happy Birthday! A Happy 4th of July to you all, in the case you happen to be reading this. Python Transition Complete I just finished the move to the TWiki for my Monty Python Repository. Be sure to check it out NOW! I did a real dry run of it myself, and everything looks like…

And It Was Fixed! Okay, so it turns out that the aforementioned problem with Internet Explorer in testing the Python TWiki Conversion ended up being a server-side typo. Not to go into detail, but what’s very strange about this is that it only seemed to affect IE, while Opera and Netscape/Mozilla worked just fine. But,…

Almost Complete! Well, the Monty Python TWikification Project is more or less complete! This is obviously a Good Thing! However, it’s not all happy-go-lucky time yet. After getting the base complete using Netscape 7.02, I decided that (as always) it would be a good idea to test cross-browser prior to the official launch. After finding…

More Progress! I’m approximately 62% complete with the Holy Grail Screenplay conversion (total progress of what was already online: ~75%). I’m trying something new with the Python site (when compared to my personal TWiki you’re visiting right now): You’ll notice (if you have a screen resolution > 800×600) that the title and footer bars (the…

Many Days Have Come And Gone… Well, things seem now to be slowing down…somewhat. After being gone for a few days, putting together a musical production, and just not being home…it’s time once again to be normal. Back to the salt mine…and back to the Python TWiki Changeover! This will need to be the first…