Author Archives: Seán Hayes

MugTug Darkroom, Online/Offline Photo Editing

Posted on Thursday, May 20, 2010 by Seán Hayes

For those of you who don’t know, a few weeks ago I joined a project called Darkroom from MugTug.com. It’s an image processing application using cutting edge HTML 5 features such as the <canvas> element, localStorage, and application cache, and … Continue reading →

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Fixing Flash

Posted on Thursday, May 6, 2010 by Seán Hayes

After upgrading Ubuntu I had some problems with Flash not working. I read the following threads and combined information from both to solve my problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1244048 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1373582 Run the following commands in a terminal to remove existing Flash files: sudo … Continue reading →

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Using a Test Database in Django

Posted on Saturday, January 9, 2010 by Seán Hayes

At Govnex we’re using MySQL on our development machines. It has several advantages, but one of the drawbacks is unittests run slower when not using Sqlite (big ups to MockSoul for posting his benchmarks). The reason for this is when … Continue reading →

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Web Dev Bash Utils

Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 by Seán Hayes

I’ve just open sourced these bash scripts I wrote for web development. They’re available on GitHub. Unfortunately they were written for use on a strict Unix environment with an outdated version of bash and without the benefit of GNU extensions … Continue reading →

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Whitespace Management: Use Tabs, Spaces Considered Harmful

Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by Seán Hayes

At one of my previous jobs I worked on dozens of websites that had been created by other people. I prefer to use tabs instead of spaces when indenting code, and I can get a little OCD sometimes, so every … Continue reading →

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Survey of Best Programming Practices

Posted on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 by Seán Hayes

I was having a talk today with some colleagues about the scarcity of web developers, and even software engineers, who use best practices such as: using version control using a bug tracker writing unit tests using a programming framework In … Continue reading →

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Just Moved to RackSpace Cloud Servers

Posted on Sunday, September 6, 2009 by Seán Hayes

Sorry for the down time, I just moved to RackSpace and got everything up and running. I had some problems migrating WordPress and getting it working, which stemmed from the fact that it was using too much memory. I ended … Continue reading →

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Color Management 0.5.1 Add-on Released

Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009 by Seán Hayes

This release just fixes a few bugs. Download Color Management 0.5.1.

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Color Management 0.5 Add-on Released

Posted on Monday, August 10, 2009 by Seán Hayes

Sorry for the long delay everyone, I’ve been really busy at my new job. In about a month I plan on changing my website from a personal blog to an open source community, so hopefully I’ll get some volunteers to … Continue reading →

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DreamHost Account Upgrade

Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 by Seán Hayes

So, DreamHost is upgrading their infrastructure, to go green and save money. During this process there could be technical difficulties, so as a reward to customers who take a risk and volunteer to be migrated first they’re offering unlimited disk … Continue reading →

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