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Speeding up thumbnail generation with Paperclip
On the heels of my other "Paperclip patch":http://pjkh.com/articles/2010/04/09/rails-paperclip--auto-orient-and-resizing- I noticed that generating four styles from a large original and auto orienting them takes a lot of time (about 12 seconds on average). Trying to cut that time down I wondered if it would be possible to generate the smaller thumbnails from the larger ones. more»Rails, Paperclip, -auto-orient, and resizing...
I recently had a situation in which I wanted to generate thumbnail images and have them constrained to 67x50 (specifically "67x50>"). No problem so far, but I also wanted to auto rotate (via Imagemagick's -auto-orient option) the images as they all come from a digital camera that provides this information. This causes a problem. Namely that some images ended up being 50x67 instead of 67x50. more»Hanger9 FS One Running in Parallels 5 on Mac OS X
MuPromo has a software bundle containing Parallels 5. Tempting. Wondered if I could run Hanger9 FS One in it so I wouldn't have to use Bootcamp like I have been doing. The answer is yes, I can! more»Another Reason People Prefer Macs to PCs
Yet another unscientific reason people prefer macs over PCs. Just look at these instructions. more»Ruby in a Nutshell...
This may not be very scientific, but perhaps this is why Ruby is such a wonderful language. more»
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