Slammer 1.0.1 was just let loose. The most important addition is the detailed user guide accessible through the Help menu. I have a really interesting feature set in the works for Slammer 1.1. So stay tuned.

Slammer 0.9.6 Beta is out. A few bug fixes. But what I want to talk about is the new feature.

Slammer 0.9.6 beta contains an experimental new feature. You can command+click(not right click) and drag to measure the distance between two points. If there ...

In the same vein as the previous Slammer release, here is the grid system grid replicated.

Here is the Slammer template for the grid system grid. Enjoy.

Download The Grid System Template

1. What is Slammer?

   Slammer is a layout tool. You can make blueprints by sectioning your canvas using grid systems, fibonacci series, golden sections or harmonious sections. Slammer can be used as an overlay on top of any application while you are tweaking your design. Slammer also has rulers, a magnifier ...

After what felt like an eternity, Slammer is finally out. There is still a whole bunch of features I need to add before it reaches 1.0. But in day to day use, it has already become an absolute necessity for me to do any design / layout work.

Don’t ...

Slammer 0.3 Beta is out. The main feature update is the ability to import and export presets. Here is a preset to kick off sharing cool grids as well as demonstrating Slammer’s different usage scenarios:

Download thegridsystem.org Preset

A really quick update to let everyone know that hyde is officially in beta.

Installing py on Max OS X Leopard is really easy. It’s as easy as sudo easy_install py, if you have the latest version of setuptools installed. py requires a more recent version(0.6C8) of setup tools than the one thats available in System Frameworks(0.6C7). Well, thats ...

Between my first post introducing hyde and now, hyde has moved further along, although not as much as I expected.

The following features have been added since the last post:

1. Atom 1.0 support
2. Breadcrumbs
3. Previous / Next support
4. Better Page Listing
5. Built in cherrypy webserver
6. A half-decent default site template ...

The beginning

About a week back I wanted to open source a few jQuery plugins that I use for one of my projects. After going back and forth several times, I decided on github because of the bigger community. GitHub’s pages feature also made it easier for me to ...