Jay McGavren's Journal

2007-11-06

explorer.exe is back on...

I didn’t really see a noticeable performance improvement, and besides, it’s nice to be able to actually view the contents of a directory. When all my work can be done within one meta-document, I won’t need that ability anymore, but that day is a long way away.

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2007-11-06

Apple - Mac OS X Leopard - Features - 300+ New Features

Spaces (and of course Time Machine) are probably the most interesting parts… No one else has implemented multiple desktops quite right yet. They don’t say whether a specific key combination can be assigned to always go to a specific workspace, though.

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2007-11-06

I shouldn’t have gone to work today with my cough, and Lenny shouldn’t have gone to school with his. Neither of us is in bad enough shape to stay home for our own sake, but I hope we don’t get anyone sick.

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2007-11-05

So with explorer.exe gone, Windows-R simply plops an “r” into the current window. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve done that today, instead of CapsLock-“open shell” like I’m supposed to be. This is going to be a hard habit to unlearn.

Someday, when all my scripts are reimplemented as selection processors, I’m going to laugh at how quaint all this seems.

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2007-11-05

Revamping some legacy processes to use my co-worker’s ORM… A lot of this amounts to busy-work.

A code generator would be complex, but it could be done, and it would definitely stave off carpal tunnel syndrome for me. Why, oh why are we rolling our own solution here?

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