I work from home. I like it. However, it’s easy to get distracted and slack off. I find that the longer I spend with my workplace set up in one location at home, the less productive I get. I seem to come to associate that spot with being distracted, instead of working. So I move [...]
“Clickable Maps” is selling pre-made maps explicitly for use with Maphilight. The pre-purchase samples are pretty good examples of what’s possible. This USA map shows remote triggering of a hilight, for instance. Note: I wouldn’t have released under the MIT license if this sort of thing bothered me.
Another new-ish release, this time a PHP webcomic content management system called simplecomic. Features: Multiple comics per day Schedule posting of comics in advance Masking of comic filenames so scheduled comics can’t be easily found Comic descriptions, alt text, and transcripts Optional chapter divisions for comics “Rants” as a lightweight blog, with scheduled posting Theme [...]
In the event that anyone was using my TextMate Ack In Project fork, protocool released a successor to Ack In Project called AckMate. It’s better. Get it instead.
I finally got around to officially releasing maphilight 1.2. This mostly just updates the official jquery.com release to the HEAD of the github project. I’d been putting it off because I spent quite a while without easy access to a Windows machine with IE8 to test the fixes that people provided. But I switched back [...]
deviantART just upgraded to jQuery 1.3, and we found an undocumented jQuery change that broke some things. The behavior of the :enabled selector changed. Before it selected all enabled form elements, now it selects all enabled and non-hidden form elements. This bit us, because we were using jQuery to assemble some form elements to submit [...]
NautilusSVN is a TortoiseSVN clone for the GNOME file browser, Nautilus. I am very happy to have found this. Now, I just need someone to write “NautilusGit”. (Or wait for the NautilusSVN project to do what they say they plan to, and extend it to cover multiple VCSs…)
I really like “smart home” behavior in text editors. That is, I like it when pressing the “home” key first moves the cursor to the start of the indented text on that line, and then to the very beginning of the line on a second press. I go out of my way to enable this [...]
I use TextMate for work. It’s a good editor, doesn’t get in my way, and I take advantage of relatively few of its nifty features. One problem with TextMate is that its built-in search is very slow, especially across a large project. Since I work with a full checkout of the deviantART source code, searches [...]
I warn you in advance that this post does not end with a resolution of my problems. For reasons relating to dynamic loading of javascript dependencies, I wanted to find a way to tell: When a script tag finishes loading a file Whether that file was successfully loaded For various reasons, I didn’t want to [...]