Adding to my apparent series of Flashbake addons, I’ve just released flashbakectl. (more…)
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flashbakectl released
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009iTunes plugin for Flashbake
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Flashbake is a fantastic script for nerdy writers (like me) that periodically commits changes to a Git repository and can optionally append various metadata to the commit message, allowing you to annotate the entire creative process. (more…)
Installing pdftk-php
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Upon popular request, I’ve decided to update the original tutorial for populating a LiveCycle PDF with PHP to apply to the new release of pdftk-php. The installation instructions should be mostly clear in the readme and in the inline comments in the example included with the script; this post is merely supplemental. (more…)
Converting a Blogger Blog to InDesign Tagged Text with Perl
Sunday, July 19th, 2009Our family has a fairly sizable blog that we (actually, mostly my wife, Nancy) have kept updated for several years. Since it contains so much family history we wanted an easy way to preserve it in print form, just in case Blogger gets the boot from Google some day (not that that will ever really happen…). (more…)
pdftk-php Officially Released
Friday, June 19th, 2009Wow. It’s been almost two years since I wrote [a little tutorial][tut] on how to use LiveCycle, PHP, and MySQL together to make a web application that served dynamic PDF forms. Since then it has become the number one page on this site. I still get a substantial number of comments a week here on the blog and via e-mail—many of those comments are stuck in my inbox, sent to me before I rebuilt my site on WordPress and enabled commenting. (more…)
