Final Cut Pro quits on startup
If the scratch disk used by Final Cut Pro cuts out in the middle of an export, Final Cut Pro becomes unstable: the next time you try to launch it, it will crash on startup.
Continue readingIE8: Font size problems
Now that Internet Explorer 8 is out, I’m getting some reports of font-size issues: text that looks fine in all other browsers becomes very tiny. When I check the same pages in my own IE8
Continue readingDrupal: set up a draggable card sort view – Part 1
Drag and drop your items into order
Drupal’s Draggable Views module makes it possible to create tables with Ajax-style drag and drop rows. Each row has a “handle” that makes it possible to drag it up or down to change the order of the items in the table. Draggable views are perfect for making “To-do” lists, outlines, and any kind of list where you need to constantly reorder individual items. I recently used it to build a draggable “card sort” view for research cards. This enables a researcher to enter cards in no particular order, then organize them when it comes time to write up the research. It would work just as well for organizing a novel or script.
The problem with the Views module is that there is sort of an irreducible complexity to designing a view, and it can be quite difficult at first to figure out all the steps involved in getting the outcome you want. There are so many options and settings and a few minor usability issues which make it all quite confusing at first. This tutorial will give you an introduction to the concepts and walk you through building an idea organizer using draggable tables.
Here’s a closeup of a Draggable table. Each row has a cross-shaped “handle” that enables you to drag the entire row up and down the table at will.
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Adobe Captivate for Mac is in beta
Good news for those who are interested in creating interactive learning content on the Mac: Adobe Captivate for Mac is in beta testing. You can volunteer to test the pre-release versions here: Prerelease Interest Form
Continue readingEclipse CVS for beginners: How to switch workspaces
You can set up multiple workspaces in CVS. This is useful for maintaining DEV, TEST and PROD environments, syncing them all to the project in the CVS repository, or it can be used to maintain differerent projects. You can also have more than one project folder in a single workspace.
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Beginning Eclipse CVS – Basics 3: Import an existing set of project files into CVS
<= Back to previous section “Create a Project from Scratch”
- Once you have created a workspace, you need to add files to it somehow. If you already have existing files that you want to use in your project, you’ll need to import them. You can also check out an existing project from CVS or import files from a zip archive, among other possibilities.
Beginning Eclipse CVS – Basics 2: Create a new project from scratch
<= Back to previous section “Getting Started”
- Eclipse Terminology-“Perspective”:
The word “Perspective” is used to denote a window panel in Eclipse with a specific purpose. There are Eclipse perspectives for different functions, like the Resources perspective for viewing workspace assets or resources, the Team Synchronization perspective for viewing CVS synchronization information, and the CVS perspective for viewing CVS Repositories, to name a few.
Error: “Partition size not a multiple of 4k” on formatting a new drive
New Iomega drives ship with NTFS filesystems, formatted for MSDOS. They must be reformatted to work with Mac OS X. However when attempting to format these drives you may get this error: “Partition size not
Continue readingBeginning Eclipse CVS – Basics 1: Getting Started
Eclipse is an open-source software development platform or IDE that has CVS (version control) functions built-in. Although Eclipse was originally built for Java development, it is very useful for working in other languages as well because of it’s open plugin-based architecture. It is often used as the foundation for new applications because it is so easily extended. This series will focus on the basics of using Eclipse for for version control, for web designers or beginning developers.
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