Well, it’s not perfect. BIRME uses drag and drop and File API. Recent versions of Chrome and Firefox support these functions well. Safari 6 and IE10 will be fine once they are released. I haven’t tried it out in Opera yet (to be honest, I’m not interested to find out).

This is the most useful thing I’ve ever made so far.

“It is a lot of hard work to save individual elements from Photoshop (PSD) files into separate images, especially when there are a lot of them.” Therefore, I created this tool to speed up the process. I have kicked myself many times for only thought of it recently.

Download here.

1. Create a “installyum.sh” file: vi installyum.sh
2. Paste the code below inside
3. Change the [mirror-site-address] to somewhere near you. The list can be found at CentOS’s Website. Remember to change i386 to x86_64 if you are using 64 bit system.
4. Press Shift+ZZ to save and exit
5. Grant executable right to the file: chmod +x installyum.sh
6. Run the script: ./installyum.sh

Here’s the shell script.

for file in \
gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.i386.rpm \
readline-5.1-3.el5.i386.rpm \
python-2.4.3-27.el5.i386.rp \
libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm \
libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm \
expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm \
python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm \
sqlite-3.3.6-5.i386.rpm \
python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm \
elfutils-libelf-0.137-3.el5.i386.rpm \
elfutils-0.137-3.el5.i386.rpm \
popt-1.10.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm \
rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm \
rpm-4.4.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm \
rpm-python-4.4.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm\
m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.6.i386.rpm \
python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch.rpm \
python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.el5.noarch.rpm \
yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-14.el5.centos.1.noarch.rpm \
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5.centos.i386.rpm \
yum-3.2.22-26.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
do rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://[mirror-site-address]/Linux/CentOS/5.5/os/i386/CentOS/$file;
done

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It’s quite easy. All you need to do is to find this file Dreamweaver CS?/Configuration/DocumentTypes/MMDocumentTypes.xml and change this line macfileextension=”css” to this macfileextension=”css,scss”.

[UPDATE] BIRME is an HTML5 App now and you can use it online. 

The story behind

As a web developer, I often need to resize images into a specific dimension to suit the website’s design. I used to resize images in Photoshop but I find it tedious to record actions again and again for different websites. Besides that, Photoshop is not cheap and not everyone has a (legal) copy. I tried some existing software but none of them satisfied me. Therefore, I decided to write one myself .

I’ve been searching and testing with many different platforms to develop it, C++, Java, Python and Perl. None of the above can achieve what I wanted, a single executable file without any extra libraries or dll files, no installation required. Finally I landed on PHP and I used bamcompile to generate an executable file. I still have troubles to get a Mac or Linux version of any PHP compiler to work. I may re-use my C++ code for Mac in the future and wrap it up as an .app.

Simple HTML DOM Parser is designed for reading and editing HTML but it works fine with XML files, since XML files are more tidy than HTML. Reading and traversing the XML is easy, just use the find function.

$xml = file_get_html('http://www.google.com/');
foreach($xml->find('img') as $element)
       echo $element;

Writing a new node is not difficult either.

$node = str_get_html('<sample_node>Hello World</sample>');

Choose “Project>>Properties…>>Compiler Options>>SWC Include Libraries” and add the path of AIR swc to it. Most likely it would be something like this: “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\AIK1.5\frameworks\libs\air\airglobal.swc”

Cheers!

Danny and Edward are working on this awesome flash extension panel that helps to create a project structure. The tool is mainly for website developers and it generates HTML file integrated with swfaddress and swfobject automatically. The cool thing about it is the tool uses an XML schema to generate all the files needed. It’s very flexible and easy to customise for other purposes. We’ve made it as an open source project and you can download it in google code.