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Hahaha! YES! I used to watch these cartoons everyday after school.

Oh man, times have changed.

I definitely prefer to purchase local products since I’d like to think it impacts the environment less and local products are usually fresher and tastier.

I’m always on the look-out for local organic unless it’s something that does not grow in North America, such as cacao or (to my knowledge) coffee, I always make sure its USDA Organic or Canada Organic certified and free trade.

LOL

Very good point about drainage.

LOL

Also to note, there are a couple TextMate bundles that are quite handy when using Haml & Sass:

• Ruby Sass
• Ruby Haml

And remember to use Soft Tabs set to 2 spaces when editing Haml or Sass files.

This is pretty cool Peter, I am downloading it right now and I’ll give it a whirl.

I’ve set all of mine to ‘Instantly’ but who knows how long that will last, ha!

I’m really digging Attribution, sweet lesson lechuck (as always.)

Haha, yea this community had gone too long without an avatar. I should start putting stuff into the Design community.

Finally!!! ;-)

Gabe, the majority of people will be reading the rendered page, not the markup.

Or with Ruby…

require 'digest'
puts Digest::MD5.hexdigest(File.read('some_file.png'))

And if you don’t want to put the entire file into memory, try this out:

hash = Digest::MD5.new

File.open('some_file.iso', 'r') do |file|
  hash.update(file.read(16384)) until file.eof
end

puts hash.hexdigest

Hahaha, scanlines! Remember when we built everything out of <table> tags and used <marquee> as well, remember before XHTML when you didn’t have to explicitly close every tag <br />, it’s amazing how many things change, and how quickly in our world.

That’s been my experience too Andrew.

Print for identities, (logos, stationary, business cards) and some advertising (a poster and promotional materials), some wayfinding and signage stuff mostly 2 or 3 color designs that were cut out of vinyl. I designed and built a sign out of stainless steel when I was working as a fabricator, that was pretty fun although stainless is a bit of a PITA to work with.

These days it’s markup and style sheets, I use Photoshop and Illustrator accordingly and should probably make more comps, but I often find myself sketching things out roughly and then going direct to markup. I would consider my text editor (TextMate) a design tool, and it is by far the tool I use most.

I really enjoy Mephisto, but it does not have a very good in-browser editor.

Postgre is a pretty sweet option too for a production database server. I’ve actually been playing with DataMapper a lot lately and I’ve got to admit that I am really loving it!

Good content Anita, 7zip is my archive utility of choice too if using Windows.