Monthly Archive for August, 2008

Maintaining personal modifications on top of stable versions of other software projects:
a story of svn, git and git svn

Published on August 7, 2008 in post. 1 Comment

I was looking for a convenient way to customize a few community-developed projects and to keep these modifications up to date with the latest stable version of said projects. For example, let say I want to create a custom variation of WordPress version 2.6, (beyond just writing a theme), update it automatically when version 2.6.1 comes out, and be warned if there are conflicts between my customizations and the new code in WordPress 2.6.1. Using two version control systems concurrently (namely git and subversion) eases this situation and prevents losing modifications by accident during the updates.

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Getting colors right from the camera to the web,
through Apple Aperture

Published on August 4, 2008 in post. 2 Comments

A very delicate matter when publishing photos on the web (or anywhere actually) is color management. What looks good on one monitor usually looks different (read: “bad”) on another one, or on paper. My goal is to publish pictures taken with a Canon EOS 40D camera in web galleries (ZenPhoto, Gallery, Flickr, etc.) or flash based galleries (such as SimpleViewer). I use Apple Aperture to manage and edit my pictures on a MacBook. Here is what I have learned and decided to use.

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