http://crazedmonkey.com/blog Ian Stevens' weblog Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:33:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been spending some of my spare time recently putting together some Python bindings for ImageMagick's MagickWand API. While most bindings I've seen just look like generated ctypes code from C header files, these bindings are more object-oriented, completely hiding the MagickWand methods. While this is still in ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/python/python-imagemagick-magickwand.html My wonderfully talented girlfriend, Nana Aba Duncan, just posted her new TV hosting reel on YouTube. Her bright and fun personality really comes through in this video. Yes, she is that energetic in real life. If you've caught the Nana fever and the only solution is more Nana, be ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/television/nana-aba-duncan-tv-hosting-reel.html Creating PDFs is difficult. Creating PDFs for print is even more difficult. Reportlab does a great job, but it defaults to RGB in most cases. This necessitates some tweaking of both Reportlab code and the code using Reportlab. Testing the result is difficult, mostly because I ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/programming/command-line-pdf-preflight-needed.html On Monday my hosting service moved their servers. Ever since then requests on my site for URLs not ending in a backslash forward to crazedmonkey.nfshost.com. This means that if you access my transit map without including the backslash, the map will refuse to load because of inconsistencies with ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/transitmap/bad-transit-map-redirect.html This morning after having bought my coffee, I went to grab the honey from the self-serve area. Noticing it was missing, I checked above the espresso machine to see if it was there. As it wasn't, I asked someone for it and they went to get a fresh ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/culture/avoid-the-honey-in-coffee-shops.html I've recently created a project for my command-line image tiler for Google Maps on Google Code. Coincidentally, the official Google Maps API blog linked to my tool on Monday so hopefully there will be some interest in playing around with it. http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/googletilecutter/google-maps-tile-cutter-on-google-code.html At yesterday's Toronto Transit Camp I was fortunate enough to speak with TTC chairman Adam Giambrone. I doubt that Giambrone was able to get a bite to eat, there were so many people wanting to speak with him. We spoke mostly about the new TTC website, whose design ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/no-google-transit-for-ttc.html I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that yesterday's Toronto Transit Camp was my first BarCamp-themed event. I've been to a couple DemoCamps, but never to a BarCamp. I'm horrible at gauging attendance, so when a pre-event registration of 80 people was announced, I was somehow envisioning a smaller gathering. ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/february-2007-toronto-transit-camp.html FYI, both my girlfriend and I have registered to attend the Toronto TransitCamp this Sunday, although we have yet to receive an email saying we made the cut-off. I'm anxious to see if it will live up to the hype. People have been patting themselves on the back ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/attending-toronto-transitcamp.html The other day, Vic and I were talking and the subject of the new TTC website came up. As some of you are probably aware, due to recent interest the Commission has decided to reopen the RFP for its website. This is good news, as none of the ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/open-source-the-ttc-website.html