October 2009
13 posts
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Quotepad →
Free and for Windows. The nearest thing I can find to Simplenote and Notational Velocity. Proving quite handy for those 9-5 days in the week.
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http://librelist.com/ →
Considering the demise of Google Groups, this looks like a lovely alternative. Mentioned by
Joshua Ballanco on the current Shoes mailing list. Looks like Shoes mailing list is heading to librelist.
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Gmail Tasks app for the iPhone →
I love this app. It is the only app to my knowledge that provides offline, and seamless syncing, to Gmail Tasks. Which is good because I don’t have an iPhone, only an iPod Touch. It is up there with Simplenote and Tweetie for me.
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addEventListener in Chrome UserScripts
Also, not necessarily related to the previous post, but something else I had trouble with in Chrome userscripting was trapping clicks. I couldn’t get addEventListener to work on elements. So instead I went for the document level, trapped all clicks, and filtered for what I was interested in.
document.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
if (event.target.id ==...
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Loading a Rich Text Editor using Chrome UserScript
Chrome UserScripting doesn’t have the advantage of UnsafeWindow that GreaseMonkey does. From what I can tell UnsafeWindow seems to be the lazy way to do things, but which has the advantage of being FAR F*CKING easier, hence it’s popularity.
Like a lot of things, the end solution is very simple, but it took me hours to get there:
var editor =...
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Backup coming to Tumblr
marco:
I recognize that it’s hypocritical for me to say this as the lead developer of Tumblr, which does not yet offer an automated feature for users to download backups of their blog content. So I took some time this week and started to write one. I’m happy to announce that Tumblr will be releasing an easy backup tool in the coming weeks. (I will also make an easy backup feature for Instapaper...
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Fed up with Firefox
I’ve had enough of Firefox freezing and locking up. I know it’s the stupid intranet sites and IETab that do it, so not strictly the fault of Firefox, but I’m fed up of one tab bringing the whole thing down. So I’m giving ChromePlus a proper go.
The only thing remaining that Firefox still has over ChromePlus is gmail notifier - incredibly useful because it supports...
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Learning C
Yesterday I decided I’d make a start on learning C as I’d like to be able to hack Shoes a bit. So the first thing I needed to sort out was a build environment as there’s no such loveliness as IRB. I already had the WDK (previously, DDK) build environment installed for building Shoes so figured that I should also be able to use this for plain C, but just didn’t know how (the...
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Github and Jekyll
The geek side of me is really tempted to desert Tumblr and move to Github Pages and Jekyll. Reminds me of the time I used Nanoblogger.
I wasn’t sure about what could be acheived using Jekyll - most of the sites I looked at are quite simple, but then I found this one which is a really nice implementation on Jekyll, so the only thing holding me back is time - And it’s not like I have a...
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Pavement Reunion →
Ok, so a bit behind with this post. But I just wanted a chance to say: I saw Pavement back in 1995 at the Brixton Academy (link to PDF review from Rage magazine).
There you go. Done it.
As far as I can recall my ticket was courtesy of my friend (I wish more than just one of my old school friends maintined an online presence, Facebook excluded, so I could have a nosey on what they are up to...
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Chrome with IETab →
Oooh, so nearly a Firefox replacement for at work. It’s not quite there yet: For instance to get themes to work, I had to keep Chrome installed, apply the theme there and copy over my preferences file to Chromeplus. Just a bit messy, and I don’t really want to have Chrome and Chromeplus installed. So for now Firefox still wins. Good to see this though.