This tutorial show how to use the basic functionality of the section tool in Google Sketchup including positioning, limitations, and the context menu - reverse view, align to section, group section lines.
I found a great tutorial series for learning how to draw a house using Google Sketchup. I’ve only watched this one. If the others are as good, I’ll watch them all.
One of the most important options for using PHP’s cURL library is CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER. When set to true, curl_exec() will return the transfer as a string instead of outputting it out directly. This let’s you store it in a variable.
A quick tip for deploying a Symfony 1.1 application. If you need a find a Symfony 1.1 CLI task, simply type
php symfony list
If you are like me and have a Symfony 1.1 installed and sym linked in a different location for testing purposes, you would type
symfony11 list
One of this year’s South By Southwest winners is Paper Critters. It’s a lot of fun to create your own critter. There are a lot of critters created. Here are a few of the critters that I have made.
Following the lead of Niko at Prendre un Cafe, I decided that I wanted to experience the new features of Symfony 1.1. First, let me say that I can’t read French, but I got the gist of what to do from the well documented Symfony 1.1 setup steps that Niko provided. Niko’s installation technique allows Symfony 1.0 and Symfony 1.1 to be run in parallel.
Some of the new features of Symfony 1.1:
I will investigating these changes over the next week or so as I build a test application to explore these changes. For now, though, here is how I installed Symfony 1.1 on Ubuntu. Once again this install process was greatly aided by a post at Prendre un Cafe. Thanks.
First, install Symfony 1.1.
cd /usr/share/php5 , this is where my Symfony 1.0x install resides.
svn co http://svn.symfony-project.com/branches/1.1/ symfony11
Second, hook up the CLI command symfony11 to the right place in the newly installed Symfony 1.1 and verify the command and install.
ln -s /usr/share/php5/symfony11/data/bin/symfony /usr/bin/symfony11
symfony11 -V
The symfony11 -V command should output something similar to “symfony version 1.1.0-DEV (/usr/share/php5/symfony11/lib).”
Next, create a test directory in your Symfony projects directory, generate a test project and an app.
cd /path/to/sf/projects/
mkdir sf11test
cd sf11test
symfony11 generate:project sf11test
symfony11 generate:app frontend
Edit your Apache2 virtual host file.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName local.sf11.com
DocumentRoot "/path/to/symfony/projects/sf11test/web"
DirectoryIndex index.php
Alias /sf /usr/share/php5/symfony11/data/web/sf
<Directory "/usr/share/php5/symfony11/data/web/sf">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
<Directory "/path/to/symfony/projects/sf11test/web">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Remember to change /path/to/symfony/projects and /usr/share/php5/symfony11/ to reflect your paths.
Finally, edit your /etc/hosts file to include local.sf11.com or whatever your fake domain happens to be.
You can now surf to local.sf11.com to see your newly installed Symfony 1.1 project.
The Web Standards Project has released the third version of their Acid test. The goal of this test is to create a common testing framework to verify a browser implementation of web standards. The Acid3 test are organized in buckets and stress the following:
As of now, no browser passes Acid3. Anomalous Anomaly has tested numerous browser against Acid3 and found some pretty interesting results, namely that the old IE5.5 out performs both IE6 and IE7, but luckily not IE8, which comes in with a paltry 17% of the test passed.
This is a bit of a longer web round up as I am compiling news from a couple of weeks.
I am trying something new. A periodic web round up of stories about the web. Here’s the first installment.
That’s it for now. I’ll keep writing roundups as time and stories become available.
