Archive for November, 2008

OS X: Spaces + Fluid = Awesome

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

I've tried so many times to use Spaces, and I keep failing. As useful as it *should* be, it just never was. And I've finally realized why. Most of what I do is in a web browser. And spaces just wasn't made for that. I ...

Switching from SVN to git

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I've been using SVN for several years now, so I've been partial to it, and reluctant to switch to another form of source control. I'm very comfortable with it, and I've got dozens of scripts to augment it and help me deal with it's shortcomings, as well as a ...

I Like the Genius feature of iTunes

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

There's a lot of people who don't seem to like the genius feature of iTunes. In fact, quite a few seem to hate it. The complaints vary. I'm still confused by this complaint by my friend David. He wants iTunes to recognize band names after he's changed them. ...

Erlang Records Cheatsheet

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

I hate looking stuff up. I just like having this type of thing 1 click away, in a nice summary. This post is mostly for me. Define a record: -record( rule, {ruleid, site, rule, original} ). You can define a record in the shell using rd: 99> rd(rule, {ruleid, site, rule, original} ...

Erlang: Installing Leex

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Leex is an erlang version of Lex, a Lexical Analyzer Generator written by Robert Virding. Robert (and several others in #erlang on freenode) were incredibly helpful and considerate in helping me understand these tools. Leex is a tokenizer. It breaks the pieces of your file or text into tokens. ...

4 GB of RAM for Mac Laptop is only $61….

Friday, November 7th, 2008

OK, so I haven't bought new RAM in years, but still, $61 for 4GB of ram? Unreal.

Ask a Question Bookmarklet

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

I snuck a feature into Answerbag... the ask a question bookmarklet. Anytime you're on a page, and you want to ask a question about it, using the bookmarklet will automatically fill in the URL for you. How does it work, you ask? Simple. Drag the link below into ...