Some things I learned last week...

Jessica — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:51:00 -0600

You can’t really crop in Inkscape. :-( But you can change the size of a svg drawing to get some perspective on how large or small the drawing will be after it is exported.
Ctrl + Alt + A opens align window in Inkscape.
To create Stylish Text with GIMP create a new layer, select a portion of the text to make shiny from original layer, copy and paste selection into new layer and change the color of the pasted portion.
This is how good iterative web design goes.
Y Combinator is now accepting applications for summer 2007 funding. Aahhh, if only I were confident and had a partner.
There are a number of sites that support OpenID. What prevents someone from claiming your site as their own (other than it being against OpenID’s policy)?
On the Rails deployment learning front, I discovered that ‘require_dependency…’ lines go in environment.rb and not in the controllers themselves (at least for how my hosting company has things set up).

a.muse: Some things I learned last week...