How to add a custom font (OTF, TTF) to iDraw for MAC

If you can't find a custom font in your iDraw for Mac here are some simple instructions on how to do it. In my example I was trying to download a google font Ubuntu.

1. Download and install Skyfonts http://www.fonts.com/web-fonts/google.
2. Once you install Skyfonts, access it via the top toolbar on your Mac.
3. Click on the Cloud Service to search for your font (in my case I chose Google Fonts). 
4. Add the required font.  (I chose Ubuntu regular). 
   
5. In the main menu, select the font you just added, and click on "Reveal font in Finder". 
6. Now copy the font file eg. Ubuntu regualr.ttf to your fonts directory \Library\Fonts\ directory.
7. The new font will now appear in iDraw. 
   

How Learning Flask, Python and Google App Engine helped me make the website My3Pages.appspot.com

Hi all.  Over the past few months, I've been learning Python on Google App Engine.  Why?  Well after attending some of the Google App Engine Developer group presentations, I noticed that most of the presenters used Python in their examples.

Being a typical programmer I just wanted to be able to create my own website quickly and that's when one of my colleagues recommended using the Flask Python Framework.  I have never looked back.  It has excellent documentation and from what I hear its a whole lot easier to set up and learn then Django.  I will eventually try to tackle Django in the future, but in the meantime, I'm really enjoying how easy Flask (and Python) make it easy to create websites.  On top of this you can create Flask websites on Google's App Engine.

In the next few days, I'm going to be putting up some How To Guides on using Flask on Google App Engine.  In the meantime, you can check out what I created in 3 weeks.  It's still a work in progress, but I hope you can see how easy it is to create:

http://my3pages.appspot.com

 
For those interested, the code is available here:

https://bitbucket.org/vincentcaesar/my3pages