Archive for General Updates & News

Panic Fail: Transmit-Coda shortcut sharing/syncing.

Well, Panic can’t really FAIL, because they’re so awesome, but c’mon guys, this would be a great time saving feature!

Of course, they don’t have anything to lose, since I’m already such a rabid fan that I’ll automatically buy the new version of whatever they put out, but c’mon guys…

Google Calendar Fail: Jump to a Date

You can’t put a date in the search box and jump to that date.

Props for Akismet

Akismet has protected your site from 44,639 spam comments already.

Thanks, Akismet!

 

The New Basecamp: Y’all Fix This Now

Dear Basecamp,

The new Basecamp is great, and I know you are working on the upgrading process. A couple things that would be nice are

(1) An option to de-privatize all “Private” items in a projects, in lieu of a method of being able to import them.

(2) An option to notify All Users of a project when it is imported.

I find myself manually doing these two steps on each project that I do import, because not having Private items in the new version is not a deal-killer for most projects (the loop-in feature neatly replaces most of the need for this, although they are do not fit exactly the same scenarios), and everybody does have to be notified when the project moves :-) although I appreciate that it is not automatic.

Thank you!

UPDATE 20120424-Tue

It would also be very nice to have a one-click import for all eligible projects. It takes a while to go in and click on each one, and wait, and click, and so on.

UPDATE 2012-05-07 Mon

Everything’s migrated except one project… Where I’ve gone through and looked and looked for that last tricky Private item and haven’t found it yet. Aaargh…

wget on OS X Lion

This is one of the first things I found myself doing on this new install of OS X Lion:

http://www.elfnet.org/2012/01/09/wget-os-lion-10-7/

Also:

http://thomashunter.name/blog/install-wget-on-os-x-lion/

And I did have to follow the directions found in a comment in Apple’s AppStore (of all places) to get it linked properly:

 

“Functional Programming with Clojure”

This is VERY INTERESTING to me…:

https://peepcode.com/products/functional-programming-with-clojure

http://clojure.org/lisps

And Peepcode’s business model is also intriguing.

Git “Server” Installs — Some Links

http://www.nixgurus.com/centos/howto-install-git-on-centos-server-with-cpanel/

http://www.mmncs.com/2011/07/how-to-install-and-setup-a-git-repository-server-using-gitolite-on-linux-ubuntu-11-04-server-and-client/

http://git-scm.com/

http://tumblr.intranation.com/post/766290565/how-set-up-your-own-private-git-server-linux

http://www.hackido.com/2010/01/installing-git-on-server-ubuntu-or.html

http://subtlegradient.com/articles/2008/02/21/install_git_leopard

SQL Scaffolding — Some Links

http://forums.asp.net/t/1548407.aspx/1?Learning+Linq+to+Sql+Scaffolding

http://1code.codeplex.com/

Using the Built in VPN Server in OS X (10.6)

Very interesting: http://blog.theilluminatedengineer.com/?p=136

I am thinking about waiting till I have a Lion Server machine setup, though.

Fascinating: Chorded Keyboard on a Touchscreen

http://labs.teague.com/?p=1451