I just made a small upgrade to the Flash Image Scroller (now 1.3), which lets you control both the colour and opacity of the background squares behind the image thumbnails. Up ’til now, the background was always set to #cccccc (grey) and 50% opacity. Thanks to the opacity level, the grey usually fit quite nicely with whatever colour you chose for the background colour of the scroller itself. Still, this is a nice addition to add just a little more control.
Thanks to Pascal for getting me to work on this. :)
If you haven’t seen this advert, I’d thoroughly recommend checking it out. Damn fine. Apparently it’s just like a mini-mall.
If more adverts were like this, I’d seriously consider buying a TV.
Sometimes UNIX timestamps can be easier to manage than MySQL datetimes. Here's a function from converting one to the other.
function convert_datetime_to_timestamp
($datetime)
{
list($date,
$time) =
explode(" ",
$datetime);
list($year,
$month,
$day) =
explode("-",
$date);
list($hours,
$minutes,
$seconds) =
explode(":",
$time);
return mktime($hours, $minutes, $seconds, $month, $day, $year);
}
In a feeble attempt to avoid "real" work, I spent a delinquent evening playing around with my new domain generatedata.com - the future home of the data generator script. Here's a mockup of the site design.
You may notice a certain familiarity. I decided what the heck, and re-used the templates for this site. I figured it looks pretty good and frankly I didn't want to spend a week coming up with a fresh face, when I could be doing something more productive, like making it work.
You won't find anything on the site just yet. Before pushing it live, I want to add a couple of new features to the script first, namely:
- an option to save your forms
- integer increment column (1,2,3..., 1,5,10... etc)
I won't fib, it probably won't be done soon. I accepted another registration site job for BP, so that comes first. Then the ol' Salvation Army gig comes after that. Ho hum.
FINALLY! I feel human enough to return to work. I've just come out of the nastiest flu I've ever had. It was a sneaky little bugger: it waited until it heard my immune system was on vacation then lunged at me. Now, almost 2 weeks later I feel noticeably better. This will give some indication of just how lucky I've been: with no exaggeration, that was the sickest I've been in my adult life. Thank heavens my company was so understanding about taking so much time off.
So! I now have a zillion Form Tools posts and emails to respond to and a stack of work that's piled up. Open Translate, here I come...
Form Tools 1.4.6 Private Beta
Whoo-hoo! Released at last. I actually did all the work for this before I got sick, so I pretty much just had to finish a little documentation and prepare the zipfile. This is a VERY significant release. I re-factored a good deal of the code, added a very powerful new feature - submission filters - and updated the install / upgrade process. It's now in very good shape for the language pack release.
Click here for the information about the beta.
