Archive for August, 2004

email_server.exe

Saturday, August 28th, 2004

I finally set up Exchange Server 2003, now we have real email addresses! dustin@theyoungbostons.com and mary@theyoungbostons.com. I feel like, awesome.

Content Management System

Sunday, August 22nd, 2004

I’ve been thinking about working on a Content Management System again. There are a lot of solutions out there, even free ones, but I’d like to develop something myself. I guess it’s the programmer in me. TechSoup talks about the requirements for a CMS: The needs of your organization and ...

Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet

Saturday, August 14th, 2004

Expression Matches [abc] A single character: a, b, or c [^abc] Any single character but a, b, or c [a-z] Any character in the range a-z [a-zA-Z] Any character in the range a-z or A-Z (any alphabetical character) \s Any whitespace character [ \t\n\r\f\v] \S Any non-whitespace character [^ \t\n\r\f\v] \d ...

Adobe Illustrator: Images With Round Corners

Thursday, August 12th, 2004

I’ve labored for hours now but I finally figured it out. If you want to use an image in Adobe Illustrator, and you want it to have round corners, here’s what you do: Place your image on the artboard (File, Place) Draw a rounded rectangle over it in the same layer Target ...

Type & Layout by Colin Wheildon

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

I read most of the book Type & Layout: How typography and design can get your message across –or get in the way tonight. It’s really good, and I definately recommend it. Here are some big points I got out of it We read top left to bottom right ...

Blog Utility

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

So I’ve just set up a simple little blog utility for the website. It’s what you see being used on the front page and on this page as well. I don’t call it a blog app because it’s only like 200 lines of code and it’s missing tons ...