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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Moving from subversion to git permanently

Published on July 25, 2008 in post. 0 Comments
Update 2009-01-18
New versions of git make the information on this page obsolete.
Please see my new post about this.

There are plenty of tutorials and blog posts out there regarding how to move from subversion to git smoothly. In those, the goal is often to keep svn as the public frontend but to spend most of the day in git, only interacting with svn through git-svn. My goal here is a bit different: I want to permanently move all my code to git and get rid of the svn repositories after the migration is complete. In the process, I want to cut my svn repositories in small pieces and make each of those a separate git repository. This involves git-svnimport and the steps are described below.

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Inkscape native, take 2

Published on February 17, 2008 in post. 10 Comments

With the release of Inkscape 0.46 approaching, we were contemplating the idea of releasing an experimental version based on GTK native (i.e. which does not require X11). In addition, the support for OS X fonts is quite poor in the X11 version and I was hoping that things may be better with the native version of Cairo, Pango, and GTK.

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