20091102 SyHi: my minimalistic syntax highlighting plug-in for WordPress

I had been using Code Snippet for a year, or a couple of years (I can’t really remember), and was more or less happy with it. Apart from the fact that it didn’t preserve some stuff properly, like double dashes and quotes. So then I tried adding another plug-in to the mix, Preserve Code Formatting. [...]

20090420 Generate bitmap font: a little plug-in for The Gimp

I made this little plug-in for the Gimp because I needed to generate a fixed-width font bitmap (what I have called a Bitmap Font) to load and use in an application of mine. I then thought that maybe someone would like to learn how to make plug-ins for the Gimp with Python, as I did, [...]

20080804 Neon v2 goes open source

If you’re interested in VJ software, you may probably have heard about Neon v2, the VJ application that shine/xplsv.com developed a few years ago and which has been used not only for lots of VJ gigs but also for creating several real-time demos (including the euskal 2005 winner demo, Sound Pressure) // Unfortunately Shine is [...]

20080612 The making of “Escena.org DVD #1″

We finally managed to release the first ever escena.org DVD. It had been the subject of speculations on repeated occasions during the past years and yet it was never done, until now :-) I’m going to detail how we produced the DVD for two reasons: Most of the tasks were done with Linux. And although [...]

20080228 Open source Flex is great

As I found about the news, I spent some time yesterday having a look at the project’s files. It’s always interesting to have a look at the internals of the software for curious-like-a-cat people like me… but honestly, I’d rather have the Flash player open sourced. That would help to fix, or at least to [...]