Found out something useful, which I’d like to share with you. It’s about calculating the width of menu-items perfectly.

Imaging you are creating a liquid website with a menu. If you want all items to have the same width, you could set the width of each item to totalMenuWidth / items.length. In most cases this will work out. But what is your menu is very small or the items doesn’t fit in that fixed width because the text is too long?

Quick post: Smashing Magazine posted an article about Algorithmic and Code Generated Artworks. Some of my artworks are on that list.

This was the first hello world post on blog.stroep.nl. I’m very proud to blog for more than a year, but tomorrow is my real birthday Yes, I am going to be one year older.

Almost 1 year since my first post. I already updated my blog to a newer Wordpress installation. But since my design was getting older, I was tired looking at it. It looks a little bit messy. I think the layout (top nav, left content, right sidebar) interacts nice; so I keep this layout. But the design was a little bit overdone and I was not totally happy and I hacked multiple times layout things to it. More browsers didn’t like my site anymore.

I installed the ‘Hyper cache‘-plugin yesterday. It minifies my output-html and posts are saved as static files on the server and the plugin enables gzip-compression. It automatically clears cache and starts over after one day. I don’t like to promote shit, but this plugin rocks!

I like to generate art and objects with Flash/actionscript. Mostly I use a bitmapdata for that and export this as a PNG-24. This works perfect in most cases. But sometimes I wish there was a simple way to export my art to a scalable vector graphic. This would save a lot of data, and I’ll be able to create unlimited large and sharp prints.

I started searching and found some nice-to-know options.

Since I’ve never updated my blog; Today was the day. Now I use Wordpress 2.8 too. It took half an hour to backup my old files and setup the new one, so it was easier than I thought. The admin looks great!