Shell scripts, JavaScript pedantry, CSS fixations, Java debugging, and the rest of the polyglotism.
Apple’s Automator has been a mixed bag for me since its release in 2005 1. For renaming a wad of files, it has been great: select them, invoke Automator, and seconds later they’ve all been renamed to conform to the convention you had in mind. Exported charts from Excel too large? Pass in those files and […]
Two things to say about WP-Footnotes: (1) I love this plug-in. Truth be told, I probably abuse it. The right answer would be to develop a better writing style and use the footnotes only where they’re really needed. The easy answer is: fuck that, I love my footnotes. (2) Could we have the “opening” and […]
My otherwise limitless love for Quicksilver has recently been tempered by a burgeoning love for the addition of Quick Look to Mac OS X in the 10.5 version. Pre-Quick Look, Quicksilver was hands-down the fastest way to access and open files. ⌘+Space → type a few characters → and you were on your way. In some instances you still […]
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Mentioned in passing the other day, Simile Timeline is a neat little API for building rich timeline visualizations with annotations. Though the documentation is a bit thin at the moment, the core code is not too difficult to figure out 1 and if you start with a straightforward example (like this one) then you can […]
WordPress 2.3 upgrade here at F_D is … well, it’s more-or-less complete. The Extended Live Archive plug-in had some compatibility issues so it was discarded for the simple and effective “Compact Monthly Archive” plug-in. At least for now. At least until I can roll-my-own archives plug-in 1. On the flip of that, switching to the […]
F_D in transit to WordPress 2.3… Plugging in the new native tagging API was a snap (10 minutes max). There’s a built-in migrator for existing Ultimate Tag Warrior tags (bonus) so getting this rolled out to the live environment should will go nice and smooth. The bummer part is with the “conflict” reported on the […]
jQuery makes JavaScript webdev so easy it’s almost stupid; 5 minutes of experimenting with the jCarousel extension followed by 10 minutes of wiring it up and then 10 minutes of CSS followed by 5 minutes of jamming it all through SVN 1 and a home-rolled Twitter marquee is born. Been on a good consistent writing […]
While A. committed herself to more work this evening, so did I… I decided to follow up on this morning’s post and put forth a good faith effort at solving as many of the IE-specific issues in my CSS as I could re: Ortho… The good news? It’s legible and more/less looking good (at least […]
After last weekend’s (perceived?) success getting Ortho up and running here, I was feeling pretty good. Got it loaded into Subversion and was off and running. Until I got my first look at it in IE6 today. Yuck. Even after switching to a strict doctype it is almost totally and completely illegible. Working on that. […]