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I have finally taken in some on the apollo frenzy that seems to be gripping various different locations around the web on adobes new apollo platform, and boy does it look interesting.

Had another quick look at trying to get python to control photoshop earlier on today but the beast was having none of it. I’ve used the gencache method which seemed as if it was the route forward but no success and I cant see a way of getting it to work.
Documentation on the web is rather scarce or non existent would be a better means of describing it.

Spent most of the day trying to get my head around the Orange frame work - it appears to be a frame work for analyzing data sets for data mining application. At the moment only investigating stay tunes for futher updates over the week.

What a crazy day I've been tied up for the last hour or so trying to set up a try SSL cert using OpenSSL, note to self when validating the key in openssl the name is the domain name ie www.mydomain.com not you own name silly boy, also have be using some python script but more on that one later.

Post more when I try and figure out how I can automate the whole process in excel

Had been playing around with trying to get ruby to interact with Photoshop with limited success. My problem at the moment is trying to get my images to save, I’ll try updating every thing to the latest version to see it that solves the issue. In the mean while I’ve started looking at JavaScript for dynamic image manipulation, the advantage of using scripting over that of the already inbuilt actions options is that conditional statements can be added this adds a vast range of control.

I was doing some work there on Friday when all of a sudden my PC started playing up again it had been fine for about 3-4 weeks. After much teasing I guessed that I had a corrupt file in one of my registry file in the system folder. O tried running the repair option on the Windows installation disk but had no luck as some idiot (mainly me probably) was looking for an admin password that had never been set, I cant seem to be able to repair my windows platform using the installation CD. So my only resort was to install a new image of windows on a recently purchase drive (luckily that I had it).

I must use python for more COM programming but I don't think I’m going to have the time in the coming months as I’m starting a new project in Dublin that’s going to take up quiet a lot of my time. Have a few interesting ideas using Photoshop so you’ll probably see some more scripts popping up in the coming weeks as I start investigation the possibilities of getting both applications to interaction with each other.

I’m going to start playing around with the CVS version of blender - someone that’s going to be peering in the obyss of how the latest release is shaping up, so coming in the next few days are going to be demonstraintion and experiments to all the new features that are appearing in the release. Yeh right will I get around to it, just going to have to wait and see !!!

The latest release of adobes anticipated flash 9 has emerged in beta mode, not sure really what to expect as I’ve moved away from using flash in development projects as I didn’t think the infrastructure was in place to support growth in the market. Don’t get me wrong flash does have its place and you can roll out different types of projects pretty quickly.

For the past week I’ve been trying to get the jquery framework to communicate within drupal for dynamic navigation and loading of content. everything was great until I discovered a bug about 2 days ago that the ajax loading would break on a node edited page. My initial thought was that there was something amiss with the html so I validate it and compared it to html that was working but that didn’t solve it.