This weekend I want to create / design a papercraft figure myself! And this process starts with a rough design.
This is the first sketch of Grumm (it had the working title: Dude2006 ):
The same night I build a rough version:
(crappy picture: couldn’t find my digital camera: so I used my webcam)
update:
I try not to regurgitate info from other blogs…
But I have to talk about a entry from Alessandro: because it makes me “extremely” happy.
The creator of SE|PY: Alessandro Crugnola has created his first firefox extension. Good for him, but what it´s to me?
Well… it’s one of the first tools that makes it possible to trace / debug in Firefox.
While running any .SWF Flash file in your browser you can see all the output generated by the “trace” flash functions in this sidebar component. This is very useful especially working with server side technology.
You can debug without anyone knowing this, even with on a live site: only people that have this extension installed will know this.
You just need to install the debug version of the flashplayer and the Firefox extension and you’re ready to go!
It made me painfully aware that we Flash-developers leave a lot of “traces” behind in the .SWF’s.
But this can be fixed: just check ‘Omit trace actions’ in the publish settings.
FlashTracer – While running any .swf Flash file in your browser you can see all the output generated by the “trace” flash functions in this sidebar component.
You *NEED* the flash player debug version to run this extension correctly: flashplayer_9_plugin_debug
Update #1: A colleague found a “funny” trace at youtube: it has something to do with the play button not wanting to appear….
Yes, let’s make a urban papercraft series!
This time I want to point you towards Sjors Trimbach site. He created Brickboy.
You can build a brickboy yourself: visit the site, goto [designs], choose one of you favorite, press [download], print it and start building!
If you are more creative then that: you can design a brickboy yourself! Just send a email (I could place the email here, but I won’t because I don’t want to add to his spam …. so goto the site and click on [info] ).
The same comment I gave Shin Tanaka, I’m giving to Sjors: he is holding back some (new) designs, found these using google:
And my own custom Brickboy will be added to my wish list. So much to do – so little time.
Shin Tanaka made a also a Brickboy!
I haven’t installed a lot of WordPress plugin’s. And till recently I had only 3 WordPress Plugins installed.
Well this is changed: I now have more (I’ll stop counting because every time I install a new plugin I’ll have to change the number…): wp-cron is added to that list.
WP-Cron provides a rudimentary support for scheduled exection of actions; a sort of “delayed action” processing for WordPress. It is nowhere near as robust as the actual UNIX cron facility, but should be good enough to “do stuff” on a fairly regular basis
This plugin has a lot of features, but I only use the wp-cron plugin.
And the reason is backup:
Now, without thinking about it, my database is send to my gmail-acount on a daily base.
I am investing way to much time in explaining my frequently used Firefox extensions collection. So to speed this list up, I will dump a group of extensions a once. It’s possible I wrote about it before, but who cares….
[mck] very useful if you need to set a signature or something else you often submit in a textfield.
Signature – Can be used to insert something in the address bar, on a text box on a web page.
update #1: I replaced signature with clippings because of it’s superior interface, management of clippings.
Clippings – Saves and manages frequently-entered text for pasting later. Text can be pasted from Clippings into forms and input fields without the hassle of retyping or repetitive copying and pasting. Perfect for forms, web mail, blog entries, wiki editing and forum posts.
[mck] spelling / translation tools.
Update #2: Spellbound has been integrated in Firefox 2.0, so only if you use a Firefox 1.5 or so you should use the Spellbound extension.
Spellbound – This allows you to spell check forms (e.g. message board posts, blog entries, wysiwyg, etc.) before submitting them. Download directly
RiteOfTongue – Right-click on a typed word inside a web form to check if the word is spelt correctly and get alternate suggestions if it is wrong.
Translate Page – Translate Page passes the current page to Google’s Translation Service and was made upon request to directly mimmick a feature of the Mozilla suite within Firefox.
ImTranslator – ImTranslator provides additional multilingual capabilities to Firefox for more efficient communication in foreign languages.And some I haven’t tested enough to say something about: gTranslate, Translate and translator.
[mck] resize the textarea if your not using the “EditorMonkey” plugin.
update #3: Resizeable Textarea extension 0.1c can be used for Firefox 2.0
Resizeable Textarea extension 0.1bResizeable Textarea extension 0.1c (for Firefox 2.0) – A lot of forums and boards provide very smal textareas for new postings.
If you type a longer posting, you have to scroll up and down, to read, what you have writen and to proceed. Download Resizeable_Textarea 0.1c directly.
[mck] very usefull if you find descriptions you don’t know (example: polymath)
WikiPedia Lookup Extension (WLE) – Extension for the Firefox webbrowser which looksup the selected text in Wikipedia encyclopedia and presents the results.
[mck] handy for saving images into different folders.
Save image in folder – This extension helps you to quickly save images into different folders without having to click through your folder structure again and again.
[mck] take screenshots of webpages
Save As Image -Adds the ability to save a page, frame, or part of either as an image.
Pearl Crescent Page Saver – Lets you capture images of web pages in PNG format. The entire page or just the visible portion may be captured.
Screengrab – It saves webpages as images by scrolling around and stitching the result together. In particular it also will save just a frame as an image. Happy blogging!