You know… it’s prob­a­bly a silly real­iza­tion… but I’ve always copy & pasted vec­tor shape from Illus­tra­tor to Pho­to­shop, never the other way around. Today, I had to con­vert a shape that I wanted to use from Pho­to­shop to Illus­tra­tor (CS4 by the way), I was so sick of trac­ing it. I mean what’s the worst thing could hap­pened if I pasted some­thing a vec­tor shape from Pho­to­shop to Illus­tra­tor, right? Get an error some­thing, but to my sur­prise, it gives me a dia­logue ask­ing me whether I want to con­vert it to an Com­pound Shape or Path…

…son of a… learn some­thing new every­day, don’t we now…? A lit­tle less deprived

I finally gath­ered my brain­cells and launched my new port­fo­lio: Designloper.com today:

I was try­ing to “brand” myself in a way, what’s bet­ter than a made-up word that describes per­fectly of what I do, right?  I love the lime green col­ors, but I thought it was get­ting too bor­ing with the light gray and white.

So I spiced things up this time with dark brown and hot pink.  I was lov­ing the fun col­ors as I was design­ing, it looked almost “hippy” which fits my per­son­al­i­ties – I never did drugs in my life, but I seem so… (more…)

Ver­sion in this arti­cle: jQuery 1.3.2 / CSV2Table 0.03-b-2.9

Lately I started to like CSV (Com­mon Sep­a­rated Val­ues) more and more com­par­ing to XML.XML is a pain to setup even as enter­ing data, then grab­bing the data requires Einstein’s brain plus 3 sleep­less and hair-pulling days of cod­ing… okay, I maybe exag­ger­ated a bit, but that’s how I feel about XML. My first encounter with CSV was InDe­sign, in there, you can import a bunch of data and gen­er­ates PDF like Word’s Mail Merge fea­ture. Then one day, some­one asked me if I can find a bet­ter and eas­ier way to help the non web peo­ple to main­tain a site. I started out with search terms like “jQuery read text files” or some­thing like that, one of the results returned as using CSV and there is a plu­gin called CSV2Table in the jQuery Plu­g­ins web­site by Toshiro Taka­hashi writ­ten ear­lier this year. Test­ing… (more…)