http://blog.salagir.com Because they're made of wood, like bridges, and so float on water, like churches, very small rocks, gravy, and a duck. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:40:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This page is for the cartoonists who will work with me as a scenarist. I explain here my methods. When I write a page, I do it panel per panel. Each panel is separated by two line return, and each information is on a new line. Description, each said sentence... Example : Broly ... http://blog.salagir.com/257-easy-page-setting-for-scenarists/ Backuping data is real easy (with linux). I use three different ways: For a data base BDD : mysqldump [cnx infos] |gzip > backupbdd.sql.gz For not too numerous files, which data is important, like configuration ones: tar czvf yoyobackup.tar.gz dafiles/ For files I want to access easily and/or numerous : rsync -av me/ ... http://blog.salagir.com/229-backup-organizer/ While making Geek's World, I often change the text at the last moment. As a result, the content of the .psd file was more accurate than the text in the database. Plus, I also used to translate from English to French directly in photoshop. And as I want to display the text ... http://blog.salagir.com/226-photoshop-text-extractor/ I am often asked where my nickname comes from. Here's the explanation. From now on, when you ask me, you shall cowardly forward you here. I don't know for English people, must most French make the mistake, the "g" of Salagir is pronounced like in "git", not like in "geek". Long ago, when ... http://blog.salagir.com/190-where-does-my-nickname-salagir-comes-from/ Translation of my tutorial on how to make a speaking balloon on your comics easily. In your image, create a layer on the top, fill it with white paint, and name it "balloons". Then, go to the menu Layer > Vector Mask > Hide All After, take the Ellipse tool tips in the ... http://blog.salagir.com/193-make-comics-balloons-with-photoshop/ BBcode is the syntax used in phpBB forums and some other websites with edit forms, due to it's simple and intuitive syntax, opposed to that stupid wiki code no one ever gets. If, like me, you ever wanted to post the content of an html page, this Perl script is for ... http://blog.salagir.com/167-convert-html-into-bbcode/ Ok, it's not really a bar. Draw something, being careful of the width of your command-line terminal, is tricky. But, you'll get the display of the percentage of progress of the script and the time that is probably remaining. Example. You have a script doing 20,000 times about the same thing. ... http://blog.salagir.com/155-displaying-a-progress-bar/ Be careful, this is the translation of two French articles and it's long. Today we will be writing time in a way that is comfortable for a human reader. Who want to read, "Only 0h 00mn 18s left" at the end of a count that began an hour ago? Before, strftime() was enough. ... http://blog.salagir.com/145-time-functions-displaying-rounded-and-international/ This is a short, non-interesting article about a translation system. Nothing new or original here. I put here because my next article will use it and it'll be a very long one. I a few month, I'm gonna talk a lot about translation. I've made many things about it, especially for automatic ... http://blog.salagir.com/146-translation-sql-table-and-translation-system/ This is not the only solution to know if your website got dead links. For example, Awstats will tell you them too, but only from on site at the time. Also, online dead link finders are you friends, like W3C Link Checker. My solution works directly on the server, and also find the ... http://blog.salagir.com/141-list-all-404-errors-from-a-apache-server/ Url rewriting, is to have a link to a webpage that a human can read, and a search engine can interpret as keywords. Many blogs use this, they use the title of the post in the url. Example : Good: http://toto.com/articles/eat-creme-brulee.html Bad: http://toto.com/2007/article.php?id=684 You english reader may not care about this, but the main ... http://blog.salagir.com/110-url-rewriting-is-your-friend/ Even in PHP 5, this old security params is activated by default, and I hate it. It's Magic Quote. When this flag is On, then vars in cookies, from a form or a url, are automatically "escaped". It means that backslashes are added before some special characters. Primary: the simple quote. Example : ... http://blog.salagir.com/90-delete-backslashs-death-to-magic_quotes_gpc/ My first code is totally uninteresting for real developers, but I will use this class often in my next scripts, so you need to know a little about this class. Plus, it's certainly a rip-off of PHP 5 mysql class, but well, I still use 4. It still can do a few ... http://blog.salagir.com/43-the-1468456th-php-class-that-overloads-mysql/ English blog, opened ! And it's post number 42, which is cool. My blog needed an english version, because I put my scripts here, and it would be too sad if only french people used them. I won't translate my others posts thought, for the most part because I'm lazy. Anticipate about one post ... http://blog.salagir.com/42-english-version/