Archive for November, 2008
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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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} ...
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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. ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
OK, so I haven't bought new RAM in years, but still, $61 for 4GB of ram?
Unreal.
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
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 ...
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