I want a Xambox document scanner even more...
Especially if the product manual has as much fun Frenchlish as the Website…
Logan Barnett was (rightly) horrified to see during my presentation that I was still using a Windows command prompt… He pointed me to Console 2.0.
Sweet! I’ve long been wondering how I could get PuTTY or the Gnome Terminal working on Windows (without resorting to CygWin). This is every bit as good.
Read more...Rubyscript2exe and NSIS...
I also said I’d present on rubyscript2exe, which is likely to turn into a NSIS tutorial as well.
Here’s a quick copy-paste from a build session…
Read more...Doodle, Distilled...
Gonna give a brief presentation on Doodle to the Ruby Users Group on Monday. While some folks can just wing it, I needed to prepare notes. The need for brevity and a large font for the projector requires a short and sweet summary.
In hopes of helping others, here’s what I’ve got…
Read more...Another phrase I never thought I'd type...
Arrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!
I hateHaTeHATE this framework!!!! I initialized several data sets repeatedly for safety, because if I failed to at any point, they would silently return empty lists.
Well, the repeat initializations are hitting the database repeatedly and redundantly. So instead, I have to scramble around the bits of this 1500-line class (which I didn’t want to make that big, but had to for overhead reasons) and regroup the updates by data set. All while my boss is (still) tapping his foot.
Eclipse is running so goddamn slow under the weight of this gigantic library that I can’t go to declarations. Hell, I can’t even type without a 10-second delay.
I just… ErrrrrRRRRAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!
Read more...A senior analyst here at work didn’t seem too keen on my upgrading Fedora, since the rest of the team is still using version 5. Guess Java runs willingly no matter how old your distro is.
Well, he just borrowed my DVD so he could upgrade his own machine. We’ll modernize this place yet, hopefully.
Read more...So freakin' cute...
Taken by Marta (Jeremy’s occupational therapist).
Read more...wHOOPS, JUST TR... Er...
Whoops, just tried to type CapsLockDown-quit-CapsLockUp on the Fedora box. I miss Enso…
It might actually be in a runnable state on Linux by now. I should try grabbing it from Subversion. Come to think of it, I’d probably feel at home on any OS if it had Enso installed…
Read more...todo.txt...
KDevelop allows collaborative editing on a document… If the file is altered on disk and you haven’t made local updates, it’ll reload as soon as the other person saves.
I think I’m gonna use this for an always-on todo list at work, which I’ve wanted for eons.. I’ve pointed KDevelop at a plain text file on a Samba share, then loaded the same file in the editor on my Windows box. Every time I save in Windows, the change is reflected on the KDevelop screen a second later.
Now when I want to know what I should to next (or need a reminder after spacing out), I should be able to just flick my eyes to my left, instead of waiting for an e-mail client to load. (And yes, I could accomplish something similar with paper and pen, but I want something searchable, automatically archived, and universally accessible.)
A similar setup with Google Docs seems to work as well. The view only refreshes automatically if you have edit permissions on the document, though. If you don’t (or don’t want to log in all the time), the Firefox “Reload Every” plugin should do the trick.
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