Things You Should Never Do, Part I – Joel on Software.
This is a great reminder. These days it’s easier than ever to build something fast that works. And though the code you build may not be pretty, it’s functional. When it’s time for version 2, look at cleaning up the original rather than starting from scratch.
How to Make Async Requests in PHP.
Nice technique for making async requests in PHP. Though the one thing it doesn’t offer is callback functionality. Then again, that would require a persistently running PHP process. Probably the best solution would be a forked process that performs callback functionality, which is then retrieved by client-side async requests.
Or just display the results the next time a page is loaded.
I’m fairly new to GIMP, but I’ve been using Photoshop for a while. I’ve run across some useful tips and tricks over time or Photoshop and one I’ve come to rely on pretty heavily is the high pass filter (via InformIT). This filter comes in handy when you’re trying to sharpen an image without affecting the original. There are plenty of sites that cover the details on this:
GIMP doesn’t have a high pass filter built in so I attempted to find a way to perform a similar operation. here’s what I came up with.
Of course, once I finished adjusting a number of images in this manner I found some information relating to how to perform a high pass filter in GIMP. (D’OH!)
And some general high pass goodness: