HTH -> Flash JS Attributes

As a freelance guy on a Linux-Box sooner or later you will have the need to create multipage PDFs (in my case invoices scanned by xsane).
So, how? No prob. On my distri (Ubuntu) it’s fairly simple:

gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf in1.pdf in2.pdf

Using Imagemagick it’s even easier and you don’t need PDFs (but you have to tune the quality):

convert *.jpg myPDF.pdf

For the record, I got those hints from the always helpful Ubuntu-Forums ;)

This site has a complete new layout by now. Also there’s some more js eye-candy.

My area: Implementing the new layout, adding the new / additional js-candy

www.zurichmasterclass.org

This site recieved som minor updates in layout and is now some kind of green.
Another thing is that their recorded interviews now are available on Youtube (within the Zurich Film Festival Channel).

My area: Adding the new styles, some cleanup. Converting / splitting / initial upload of the videos

The content area was cleaned up, the height of the footer navigation was raised and on the startpage there’s an image bar which contains some shortcuts to actual topics.

Also most of the video media of the Zurich Film Festival moved to Youtube in it’s own channel.

Last but not least: This years entry form is online. So if you are a director and want to participate, feel free to subscribe (or this one if you prefer the german version).

Website of the company Millbrook Pictures AG. It’s a financing, co.producing company located in switzerland. It may be known of co-producing Oliver Stone’s “W”.

The website consists of basic features but there are some more in the pipeline.

• Participation: Late 2008, early 2009. More may come.
• Tech: Typolight 2.6.x, Mootools JS
• My area: Implementing the site by given design.
• Special: Layer menu, non public area
• Status: Online

Infosite of the film festival consultant Christine von Fragstein.

• Participation: Several days December 2008
• CMS: Typolight 2.6.x
• Responsibilities: Implementing the site by a given design
  
• Features: Nothing special, except some Mootools eye candy
• Status: Online

Info- / Promopage of the Helter-Skelter DJ-Crew.
Main focus of this crew is the goth or more specific industrial area.
If you’re interested in eletronic warfare check out their parties ;)
The site is the 3rd edition since 2005 (not sure about the year).

Currently there are still some style problems if you’re using a browser of the IE series. Will be fixed soon.

• Participation: Several days in September / Novembre 2007
• CMS: Typolight 2.6.x
• Responsibilities: Implementing the whole site / Layout (some help provided by Nikolai Spreng)
  
• Features: Gallery, HTML-Newsletter, Eventinfo
• Special: Huge Gallery!
• Status: Online
  

Program information of the Zurich Film Festival. The application contains an secured administrative interface to manage the movie data like screenings an participating persons. Also there’s the frontend presentation for the visitors of the festival including pictures, trailers, screenings and so on.

The whole application is coded in Ruby on Rails. The administrative interface makes massive use of the plugin active_scaffold which allows to develop administrative interfaces in a very rapid way. The frontend presentation is coded the standard Rails way. During the first builds it made heavy use of AJAX, this behaviour was changed to get a basic SEO.

Previously the movie database was realized as a PHP application, unfortenately this app wasn’t very configurable so that a complete rewrite was inevitable.

• Participation: Since mid of June 2008. Main development took place in July and August 2008.
• Ruby 1.8.6, Ruby on Rails 2.0.x & MySQL 5.0.x
• Responsibilities: Development of the Application
• Special: Migration of the existing data into the new database structure.
• Status: Online

Targets:

• Get the OS working, especially the package manager
• Install Ruby (1.8.6)
• Install Rails (2.0.2)

Environment:

• OS: CentOS 5
• Plesk 8.4

Hey ho, let’s go:

1. Get yum working
   As yum IS NOT working after the automated OS install, we will start here.
   Yum complains about 2 packages missing:

   python-iniparse
   yum-fastestmirror

   You can get them on a mirror listed here. Install them with rpm -ivh. Now yum should work. As the preset package sources suck, I propose that you edit the config in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo. You can look at my config for reference.

   As gcc ISN’T installed, you should install it. Also you should install mysql-devel.

2. Install Ruby
   Download Ruby from it’s website. Extract it. Install it:

   $ make
   $ make install

   In my case I had problems with zlib and openssl. To fix this, check if zlib and zlib-devel are installed. Also you have to go in the extracted Ruby sourcefolder and install it by hand. To do so, make follow this steps:

   $ cd rubysource
   $ cd ext
   $ cd zlib
   $ ruby extconf.rb
   $ make
   $ make install

   Do the same for openssl. If you want to use mysql, get the C library. Here’s the source and the manual.
   Now get rubygems. You should take version 1.1.1. Now your Ruby installation should be fine. Now install Rails:

   $ cd rubysource
   $ gem install rails -v 2.0.2

Now Ruby & Rails should be up and running. Hope this helps :)

Little info page about the grimmest black metal band in the Tübingen area.

• Participation: Some hours in 2007
• Tech: WordPress 2.x
• My area: Implementing the blog according to a layout by Nikolai Spreng
• Features: Gallery.
• Special: -
• Status: Currently offline due server change