Monkinetic Weblog

Big surprise, I hacked on mygannt.py some more this weekend, and it's now called sgannt.py. Ostensibly for Simple Gannt (though it's not so simple anymore) but more because it sounds cool to pronounce it "scant". -)

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Spec Web Site Design: Design for a local lawn care company. The company has no site currently. In my design I tried to develop a look that was professional yet friendly.

Jodi has been posting more and more lately to her site. She's becoming quite the blogger. I knew it was inevitable when I heard her say the other day, with 5 minutes before walking out the door to work: "I need to go post to my website..."

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Finally! It's working, and I get to have a weekend! (I don't know if I could have stopped if I hadn't fixed this thing...) But seriously, I am so glad to have this script working. I really hate that admin-type stuff you have to do to get work - writing proposals, doing project plans, timelines, etc... This is going to save me a not-insubstantial amount of time, I'm hoping.

Of course, no journey would be complete without a few choice temptations along the way.

Whew. You know how you sit there, looking at your working code, thinking "I'm so glad it works. It works really well! But... it could be better... I wonder if instead of a bitmap I could get *resolution independent* ouput?"

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Well, mygannt is coming along nicely. I'm trying not to obsess about it, but... well, if you're a geek you understand. (Must... add... feature...)

If anyone out there has gotten the 1.1.4 version of the python imaging library working with freetype2 on Mac OS X, I'd really love to know how!! (PIL fonts - bitmaps converted from X Windows BDF descriptions - suck. FreeType2 allows use of anti-aliased TrueType fonts.)

Being a freelance web designer and developer, I need to be able to show clients, in a simple yet informative fashion, how their project is going to play out, and what is going to be happening during any phase of the project.

Tomorrow I'll explain why this is so cool:

Clever, and interesting. Mike Sanders has posted a webloggers' version of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It's split into several different posts, so start from the list on Ton's Interdependent Thoughts.

My nephew, Andrew Scott Ivy (good scottish name!), was born last night , 3 hours after Sean and Amy went to the hostpital. 7 lbs, 8.9 oz, 20".

I've been following my web server logs more closely lately, and NetNewsWire now has 4 of the 5 top spots in my Browser report, losing out only to Google. My top five user agents in descending order:

1. Googlebot/2.1
2. NetNewsWire/1.0.1fc1
3. NetNewsWire/1.0.3b1
4. NetNewsWire/1.0fc1
5. NetNewsWire Lite/1.0.2

Part of an information architect's toolbox explained: Managing taxonomies strategically.

Tim Bray on the beauties of binary search. Having never taken any CS courses, this was fascinating new information for me. Includes sample code. Niiiiice!

Snatch.

Interesting article from Teledynamics: A Blog Is The Answer (What Was The Question?). The article explains business weblogging from a sales point of view. [via ABC]

The last few nights, we've been hearing strange sounds coming from the room where we have been putting the cats overnight. Toby and Lucy are lovable, but can be demanding and downright annoying when they want food and/or attention at 4:30 am.

I know it's a quirk of heredity, but I love being on Robert's blogroll immediately following William Gibson and Dave Hyatt.

Shock and Awe?> Defense officials told Fox News that as many as 3,000 precision-guided bombs will be dropped on specific targets in Iraq during this phase of the campaign Oh my. Does it matter that they're precision guided if you're guiding enough of them them to level a city?