July 2010
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“Minimise Class icons in diagrams. If enabled, then the attributes and operations...”
– argouml-stats: 10.3. The File Menu
So something is enabled by default that surprises many users? That doesn’t strike me as good interface design. Anyway, thanks to a bit of googling and this forum post I figured it out.
I’ve only got a simple Java app and really didn’t want to...
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Currently Entertaining My Ears
I need to get my life so it’s single piece flow, but in the meantime I seem to be working in batches. And this batch is music.
School of Seven Bells - Disconnect from Desire. When something gets mentioned enough it’s worth checking out, but after first listen (It was at work and I was totally “in the zone”, so not paying full attention, trying to get some JavaScript in...
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ResophNotes - Quick Notes on Windows →
I’ve wanted (I think*) something like this on Windows for awhile: a client that syncs with Simplenote. I actually like the look of Simple Software Notes better (after all, simpler is better), but I can’t use it at work because it doesn’t include proxy support whereas ResophNotes does.
* I say think because I’d had Resophnotes for awhile, but hadn’t used it because I...
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On Camping vs Sinatra →
Magnus Holm’s email to the Hackety Hack mailing list. His email is written in Ruby so you can download and run it. Mind blown.
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Back to Spreadsheets?
Wesabe are shutting down. Which is disappointing, more than annoying; I feel worse for the guys who ran it. Credit to them though, and confirming my belief that I made the right choice with them (even if they are closing):
They’ve always offered quick, painless data export - So I’ve not lost anything I’ve put in.
They are open-sourcing their code - If you are going out, do...
June 2010
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110 Format lives again →
- via choschiba in the Flickr 110 Format group.
Adox are hand making 110 film cartridges. Available for pre-order. Plus, it looks like they are in talks to take over 126 format production, if all goes well it would be available again in 2012.
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10 Years in Tech: iPhone 4 vs iMac G3 →
This is interesting. Especially to me, since I owned an iMac G3*; of slightly lower spec than the one in the article as well. I loved that sage iMac (and the iSub I had with it), it was the first time I realised you could smile just by sitting in front of a computer. I’d (obviously) never experienced that will the beige Windows boxes I’d used before; almost with a SGI machine I’d...
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Polaroid > Digital →
It just is.
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Mudhoney UK Tour →
Wow. I didn’t even realise they were still going. Brings back memories - not that I’ve seen them; never did get to see them live when I was really into them (school years), but I associate them with good times. Plus Pokin’ Around is on my (now defunct) Muxtape (basically my all time favourites mixtape).
Unfortunately I think my gig days are over, which is a shame as this is...
May 2010
13 posts
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WatchRex the Dog - Synthpop set recorded live at Musicalia May 2010.
This is ace. Ghostbusters and Kids in America. Genius.
(Not a video, by the way)
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HacketyHack is a Ruby Summer of Code Project →
Shoes is the “soul” of HacketyHack. This is fantastic news.
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Vim Colour Schemes
Owing to having to set-up Vim again on my work machine, I decided to have a look around to see if I could find a better colour scheme than pyte, which I’ve been using for awhile.
It seems there are a few good dark background ones (I didn’t find any other light background ones):
IR_Black - Very good.
wombat
zenburn
Of those I like IR_Black best, but I think I’ll likely...
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Shoes policeman builds for Linux →
ashbb is now knocking out recent Shoes builds for Linux as well as Windows. That just leaves us with OSX Snow Leopard to go…
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Firefox 4: the HTML5 parser – inline SVG and... →
It’s good to see Gecko pulling some punches at Webkit (I love Webkit, but I don’t want it to become the only rendering engine. Webkit, at least Chrome developer build, doesn’t render the MathML properly from the inline MathML and SVG example, and the SVG not at all).
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Some Ubuntu 10.04 Notes...
…due to my unexpected Ubuntu trial at work.
It’s bloody good. Looks lovely. I’d quite happily use this full time if I had that choice/option (not like there’s any competition with XP, but I mean I’d also switch from OSX for this; Was never a fan of the brown theme, preferring Mint, but I prefer this new theme to Mint).
Does multiple monitor support pretty much no...
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Shoes and a Shotgun →
Whilst on the Shoes news, came across this recently which looks interesting:
“Shoes-and-a-shotgun is an app for Shoes that runs a Thin web-server locally with Ryan Tomayko’s Shotgun for easy reloading.”
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Tying our Shoelaces
It might be collectively slow progress, but progress is being made on the next version of Shoes, Policeman.
Ashbb, continues his excellent work on the Windows side of things. MinGW is now the recommended build route, which although currently a bit more buggy that the old WDK route, should make things easier in the future.
OSX was struggling. Although I am really interested in Shoes, I have no...
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April 2010
14 posts
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I Am the Mob!
Ellie Goulding inspired I decided to dig out my Catatonia stuff and give it another listen. It must have been awhile since I’d not a single mp3 in iTunes, having never ripped any from my CDs (of which I’ve a few).
I got hooked on Catatonia with the Way Beyond Blue album, but like Idlewild they seemed to progressively lose the shine for me with each additional album. International...
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Idlewild to split… Who cares? | The Line Of Best... →
Read this a couples of days after I saw kisskitty’s post. How odd.
Anyway, I have Captain and Hope is Important on my iPod. So “I don’t care”.
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Pencil vs Camera →
via Flickr Blog. These are cool!
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Writing a Binary Search
Or subtitled: Why turn down a chance to completely embarrass myself on the internet?
I read this post on Binary search on the Reinvigorated Programmer blog (In trying to learn more programming, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to read some programming blogs; plus as an unexpected bonus he likes Doctor Who) and thought I’d have a crack at it. However, the rules were a bit hard for me,...
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‘Roid Week 2010, May 3 – 7 « Flickr Blog →
Yay! It’s almost that time again. And by hook or by crook I’m getting some film for this (even if it means my back log of 35mm film waiting another month).
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Indicommons iPhone Appp →
The Commons is arguably the best feature of Flickr and at the sametime (still?) the most underated (at least it feels that way to me). Indicommons is a site that was set-up by fans of The Commons to do their best to address this underated-ness and promote The Commons to the world.
Although I follow the RSS feed for Indicommons and have a couple of institutions as contacts on Flickr, I still...
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Antipodean: Force directed graph layout in... →
I had a go at implementing a simple force directed graph layout algorithm in JavaScript. Try it out. So what does this force directed stuff mean anyway? Basically, it uses a physics simulation to figure out how to show the graph/network decently. In particular, it simulates a bunch of…
At work, I’ve been doing a fair bit of Javascript - in the form of UserScripting for Chrome -...
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WatchSkateboardanimation by Tilles Singer (via @davegorman)
Truly fab. Really clever idea. I still love skateboarding and for someone to combine that with stop motion animation: wow!
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Java, HTMLUnit and catching setTimeout exceptions
Colour as bleeding obvious, but in HTMLUnit I could not figure out how to “just use WebClient.setTimeout(int)”.
I was searching for something like this:
try{
webClient.setTimeout(60000);
HtmlPage page = (HtmlPage) webClient.getPage("http://somepage");
}
catch(TimeoutError e) {
//Try again, or abort, etc
}
Except TimeoutError is made-up. I was sure setTimeout() must...
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Vim and xmllint on Windows.
I had occasion to get this working again. Not that it’s hard mind you, just that I gave up too easily last time. I’d been logging an xml response from a Java programme and ended up with a massive xml file all on one line. Obviously not ideal if you want to search through the file.
Googling lead to xmllint, and last time I didn’t even try after reading about Windows...
March 2010
11 posts
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Shoeset
A little Shoes app that generates tag clouds for a user’s chosen set on Flickr.
This was basically a geek solution to me asking myself, “I wonder what films I had best results with at those weddings?” Since I tend to use sets for events, and a mix of film and cameras at events, this worked well for me.
Uses the excellent Flickraw gem and this TagCloud class. It’s the...
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When will pixels become obsolete? →
I guess the answer is never?
Came across this, from 2008, when I was recently re-jigging my site and wondering whether there was actually any reason anymore to swop everything over to EMs from the pixels I’d inherited with the theme - which I’d been intending to do since day 1, but you know: laziness and all - seeing as how modern browsers such as Chrome will zoom all the content...
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Snow Leopard and Gems "wrong architecture"
Not that I’m on Snow Leopard yet (ever??), but should you get an error such as:
"hpricot_scan.bundle: mach-o, but wrong architecture"
Or any other gem, doesn’t have to be Hpricot, then it is, as the error message says, because of a mismatch between the architecture of Ruby and the gem. And on Snow Leopard this is most likely because you are using a 32-bit version of Ruby and the...
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31.536.000 SECONDS →
(Link to PDF Press Release).
Great news for Polaroid fans, although seeing as how SX-70 and 600 series cameras weren’t exactly going cheap on eBay before, I think I’ll have to just stick to peel apart film for the foreseeable future.
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H&FJ: Four Techniques for Combining Fonts →
dhotson:
cameronmoll:
Hoefler & Frere-Jones:
Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ’s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.
Positively bookmarkworthy. This is great stuff, and the examples are top-notch.
A bit like when I learnt, many moons ago now, what shades of...
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Spring Cleaning
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve taken the opportunity to use Google Buzz to clean-up my website. I’ve removed the side bar that featured Twitter, Delicious, Google Reader, Last.fm and Flickr widgets and instead have replaced with a simple link to my Buzz profile page. Makes for a much cleaner site. The only thing Buzz doesn’t do yet is pull in info from Last.fm, but I...
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HTML5 Outliner Extension for Chrome →
Really nifty little plug-in, not only for checking your HTML5 Outlines, but also for navigating HTML5 sites.
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Google Buzz Is (was anyway) Perfectly Private...
I’ve missed the boat entirely with this as Google have addressed some of the ‘issues’ now, but anyway I started writing the post so I’ll finish it. There were basically three points I wanted to make:
Spamming of “trending topics” by a plethora of websites / news outlets. Everyone seemed to jump on the Google Buzz Bash Bandwagon at the launch. And although...
February 2010
7 posts
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Java Smack API and java.io.EOFException
I came across this confusing error using the Smack API:
java.io.EOFException: no more data available - expected end tag </stream:stream> to close start tag <stream:stream> from line 1, parser stopped on END_TAG seen ...EZah/08YglY=\' xmlns=\'http://jabber.org/protocol/caps\'/></presence>... @1:2797
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.fillBuf(MXParser.java:3035)
at...