So the latest project I am working on is making conduit work with my iPhone, so I can sync my information in Linux. The project is pretty early on but it can already sync calendars and notes and even some of the data from your addressbook.
For more details check out this page:
http://matt.colyer.name/projects/iphone-linux/index.php?title=Conduit_Syncing
Also if you want to help, join the mailing list.
So it’s crazy to think that it’s been a year since I moved to San Francisco, it really doesn’t seem to be that long ago. I guess now I am approaching the point that I feel like I know where everything is.
Since coming here some things have definitely changed. When I first got my bike it was a trial to get to work but now I feel quite at home riding through downtown traffic. When I first started cooking I spent alot of time trying different things, now I try to cook as quickly as possible. On the other hand some parts of my life are very routine: doing laundry, going to the grocery store and my morning routine.
However I think I have found a good balance of mixing the new with the old and am generally happy. I guess my one complaint about San Francisco is that I wish it was warmer in the summer. Other than that its been a really good year. Hopefully the next will be even better.
So if you are a web developer and haven’t heard of css sprites, you should check them out. While your at it you should probably checkout sass as well, it takes the pain out of css.
As I plan on implementing sprites on a site I am working on, I didn’t want to have to do all the hard work by hand so I wrote a ruby script to do it. It stitches a directory of png images into a single png file and then returns the sass rules necessary to use them in your markup. (It makes your life a lot easier because you can just keep replacing that whole section of your markup when you change or add an image).
You can get it from my git repository. Feel free to send a patch if it doesn’t do what you want