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Opening the Door to Open Source for Businesses

O'Malley — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:57:10 +0000

Think Open Source is just a new technology buzz word or another way to talk about computers? Think again. At OG Consulting our understanding of Open Source expands its lessons and philosophies to more than just a technology strategy but also to project management, conflict resolution and business development. OG Consulting [...]

Drop Shadows and Snapshot Borders - Automating Image Manipulation

O'Malley — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:04:10 +0000

Many of the web projects we do have tons of images that require manipulation and processing. Although the GIMP and Adobe Photoshop are extremely powerful tools, they require a user. That would you be you, sitting in your chair, operating on images by hand with your mouse, stylus, and keyboard. You can [...]

Mysql 4.0.x LATIN1 to Mysql 4.1.x UTF-8 Nightmares

O'Malley — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:07:21 +0000

Whew! Finally I have accomplished what I had been putting off for a while, namely a MySQL upgrade that had been due. Here’s the problem: What would normally be a straightforward LATIN1 or ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 character conversion turns out NOT to be. Why? Well, just because the old database character set defaulted [...]

Fighting the Good Fight Against Spammers

O'Malley — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:06:53 +0000

Multi-lingual Wordpress with Apache2 and Content Negotiation via index.html.var

O'Malley — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:32:46 +0000

That’s a mouthful, isn’t it. In short, I’m writing this little tutorial for those that need to maintain a Wordpress site in more than one language. This particular setup is geared toward Wordpress, but the techniques can be used for other html files and Content Management Systems. First, use Apache’s new index.html.var [...]

The Five Most Common Lies in Business

O'Malley — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:17:55 +0000

From an article on Fast Company Lie: "People are our most important asset." Truth: "People are our most worrisome and unpredictable asset. Our most important assets are really our financial assets." How is this true? A pile of capital - so [...]

Procedural Flash Animation in Linux

O'Malley — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:06:30 +0000

This is an introduction to creating completely non-interactive, or procedural flash animation using Linux. The beauty of this is not that you can do more, or that it's prettier, or even faster to create. The beauty lies in the power. Once an animation procedure is set, the elements can be changed simply by including new images, colors, or messages. In fact, I'm working on a simple web-form to generate the above animation by simply uploading elements and text inputs.

But first, let's get to the tutorial, shall we?

The door scene modeled in POV-ray scene description language and is typical of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico Spanish Colonial architecture. The real doors are beautiful. If you ever get a chance to take a cruise from/to Puerto Rico, don't miss the chance to walk around Old San Juan (El Viejo San Juan) and check them out. I rendered three frames with the doors rotated from 0 to 75 degrees to simulate... guess what? Opening doors. Clever, huh?

Ruby on Rails - Insert Multiple Child Records

O'Malley — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:39:47 +0000

I have been having a bafflingly hard time trying to figure out the proper way to insert multiple child records from one single webform. It is the standard fare for posting things like invoice headers and details. Say for example, you've got an invoice record which consists of an order number, date and whatnot. That particular piece of tabular data is then considered the parent of its child line items (product_id, description, quantity, price, etc). So you've got this Order which consists of an invoice and line items.

Tras la Pista del Consumidor Tecno-Sapiens

Gorbea — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:32:02 +0000

El Consumidor Tecno-Sapiens,
variante del ser humano moderno que está virando al revéz
su relación con los medios. Hasta ahora la literatura del
usuario del consumidor de televisión lo presentaba como una
persona aplataná en el sofá sirviendo de esponja a todo
lo que se sirve por las ondas televisivas o el famoso “couch
potato.” Al pensar en mercadear o desarrollar marcas se pensaba
en exposiciones a productos a ese receptor pasivo.

Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

O'Malley — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:34:48 +0000

We at OG Consulting have been saying this for years. Frankly, we are the laziest and dumbest consultants around. Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb by Philipp Lenssen I realized that, paradoxically enough, good programmers need to be both lazy and dumb.Lazy, because only lazy programmers will want to write the kind of tools that [...]