November 4, 2015

Outlook Kung-Fu

While in the process of doing some HTML emails recently I had some issues with Outlook. Stinky, sneaky Outlook. I learned a few little techniques though that are worth sharing. Only show this on Outlook First and foremost, only show the content between the conditionals on Outlook. &amp;lt;!--\[if gte mso 9\]&amp;gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;div class="only on outlook"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &amp;lt;!\[endif\]--&amp;gt; Don’t show this on Outlook (v1) Anything with the style mso-hide: all will be hidden on Outlook.

September 15, 2015

Migrate Wordpress Database

I recently found the WP-CLI library and have been investigating ways I can integrate it into my workflow. I should note here that we use shared hosting extensively. Ideally the preferred solution would be to use a true migration tool. This is not always possible with shared hosting. To use the tool the following commands would be issued: migrate_wordpress.sh dev production This command would pull the latest version of the wordpress database from the production server.

August 8, 2015

Quick Tip: Photoshop save slices without creating images folder

One of the minor annoyances that I run into from time to time is saving slices from a PSD. Once I have my slices defined and selected a folder Photoshop will save all my images in the folder I specified. However it will also create an images folder and place the images this folder. This means I that after saving the files they must be moved out of this folder.

December 10, 2014

ssh as part of my workflow

Have you ever been in the situation where the discovery of a technology or technique has rendered previous workflow comically inept and wasteful. One such example would be the discovery of the “edit multiple frames” button in Adobe Flash Professional. I had spent so much time moving from frame to frame to edit a tween. Then to discover that I could choose the entire animation as one and edit. Joy and sorrow in the one same wave of realisation.

December 2, 2014

Early PC top 5

While doing my recent top 5 Amiga games, I got to thinking about the early PC games that I also enjoyed. I got into PC gaming in the late 90s and early noughties. Please note, these are merely the games that I particularly enjoyed: X-Wing: Alliance Included in this is the entire X-Wing series, but I started with Alliance. Needs a joystick, but the inclusion of the requirement to manage your ship’s energy (lasers/shields/engines) adds another dimension.