Mar
14
Ugly Casanova - Cat Faces
This is one of Isaac Brock’s old side projects. I haven’t listened to this song in a wihle, it’s really great.
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Mar
12
I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but I have to.
For example, we just introduced bulk delete in Highrise. The UI and underpinnings we built for this will eventually (probably) be used for bulk tagging and other bulk actions … It took a few days from inception to public launch. (link)
So, 37 signals hadn’t even conceived of a bulk delete until now? I know they don’t believe in writing functional specs, which is fine with me, but that is just nuts.
They claim to “write a one page story about what the app should do.” What do you think was in that story? My guess is that it didn’t go too far beyond: “The app should list people, so you can have a list of people.”
We pushed a new feature that makes it possible to delete multiple contacts at once.
Simplicity is one thing, but a contact manager that can’t do bulk editing of contacts? I don’t think “simple” is the right word.
YouTube API Update
“We now provide a complete set of (CRUD) capabilities for uploading, managing, searching, and playing back user videos and metadata from the YouTube “cloud,” managed by us.”
Awesome flash control stuff, but other than that, way too little, too late. We’ve got all that and more, and have had it for months and months.
Eleventh Hour
The new Del The Funky Homosapien comes out tomorrow. However, since I pre-ordered from the label, they sent it early and it just arrived... autographed.
I'm pretty psyched and after listening to the first few songs, it sounds pretty good. Here's hoping a new Deltron 3030 is on the way.
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Mar
06
The reasons developers are willing to accept a 70/30 split are simple: convenience and exposure.
Or more likely this: 70/30 a way better rate than a developer will get with any other publisher with the amount of reach of Apple/iTunes. If you thought the developer gets anything close to that for a boxed product in the physical apple store, or wherever people buy software, you’d be very wrong.
goto-minibuffer
I almost posted this yesterday, but I got stuck trying to explain when it's useful. Every example that I came up with seemed to have a perfectly acceptable workaround.
However, after another day of emacs usage, I decided that there are indeed times when you need to move the focus to the minibuffer window. Sometimes that is easier said than done. It's especially hard if you have a lot of windows open in one frame and move around a lot, particularly when you do that in the middle of entering a command in the minibuffer.
I couldn't find anything built in that would do that. So I wrote a tiny function to handle it. Without further ado, here is some elisp to move the focus directly to the minibuffer.
(defun teds-goto-minibuffer () "Move cursor to minibuffer window" (interactive) (select-window (minibuffer-window))) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c m") 'teds-goto-minibuffer)
If you know of a simpler1 way of doing this, please let me know.
1. Hitting control-o a bunch of times doesn't count as simple. We're talking about when you have a bunch of windows open.
… an important feature upgrade as Apple (AAPL) competes head-to-head with Research In Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry smartphones, … punishes competing products from Microsoft (MSFT) and Motorola (MOT)
Didn’t we cover this already? It’s the second thing on the list!
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