I’ve been using Quicksilver for a while now but have only just recently started looking into the more advanced (read: unknown) features of QS.
I did some searching and found an article over at 43 Folders going over some cool tricks you can do in QS.
I particularly like the clipboard history one. I’ll definitely be using that.
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Seeing as how I get soooo many hits here, I really need a good way to monitor what is getting the most attention.
Originally I set up an account with Google Analytics but for some reason it just isn’t working. Also, I’m not a huge fan of the interface. All that and I’m bored.
So anyway, I did some searching around and found this cool (read: free) service from performancing.com called Performancing Metrics. It’s got a great looking, simple interface that shows me exactly what I want and nothing more.
That being said, I haven’t started getting down in the nitty gritty stats. Maybe if my blog gets popular one day (*eye roll*) I’ll need something a little more in depth. But until that day, this will do just fine.
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I know I’m a little behind the times but I just started watching The Show with Ze Frank.
There really isn’t a way to describe this vlog other than a guy with a camera. The better part of the shows talk about news and his opinion on said news but there is really no guarantee of what he’ll talk about. He started making these videos March 17, 2006 and did one every weekday for a year. So yeah, he’s not making shows anymore but you can still watch them all in the archive.
That’s what I’m doing. I started two days ago and have already gotten through six months worth of shows. I don’t know what it is about this guy but he really is just awesome. Check it out.
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I just thought of (and used) a cool trick to help debug code.
Say you have a line of code that is throwing an error.
temp += (format.replace("%URL%",ll.getFirst().getURL()).replace("%IMG%",ll.removeFirst().getIMG())+sp);
It doesn’t really matter what this line does. What does matter is that there are clearly several method calls. The problem is you don’t know which part of the line is causing the error.
To fix that you can just split up the line at the commas like so(note: this might not be allowed in all languages – I’m doing this in Java):
temp += (format.replace("%URL%",
ll.getFirst().getURL()).replace("%IMG%",
ll.removeFirst().getIMG()) + sp);
Now when an error is thrown and you go to the line you have a better idea of where to start looking for problems.
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I decided to import posts from my last attempt at blogging. The thing is though, they’re all at the end and seem not to make much sense with the posts I’ve only made here. I guess I’ll just leave them for your perusal.
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Earlier today I had the urge to install phpBB (who knows why) so I head to their website to find some countdown timer. I waited an hour and a half and what do ya know, a brand new website! Of course, I haven’t been there in a while and if I had felt this odd urge an hour and forty minutes later I would have had no idea this new site was some big unveiling. Lucky me. My excitement for the day.
Anyway, I got phpBB installed (the newest RC – 3.something.something)and everything but I have to say that I really don’t like it. I may not be the best person to judge how “good” a forum platform is (considering I have absolutely no need for a forum) everything just seemed really overdone. There were tons of features that I couldn’t imagine ever needing. And it was slow. Nothing responded quickly.
I think if I were ever to have a forum I would write a custom one. Forums are usually created for a specific topic and phpBB using a forum made for anything and everything doesn’t seem like the way to go.
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I’m back from spring break in more or less the same condition as I left. Many posts to come. Need to sleep. Bye.
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…despite my promise of a some new (awesome) posts, I am unfortunately (for you, not me) going tonight and I won’t be back until sometime next weekend. Until then I’m going to be computer free. We’ll see how that goes. In any case, I won’t be able to post here. Later.
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I have a huge midterm tomorrow so I can’t post tonight. Check back tomorrow for two posts though.
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I’ve decided to once again try to learn Obj-C. The last few times I’ve tried I either got really bored with it (because I didn’t know it well enough to actually put it to use) or because the syntax was so foreign that it just seemed impossible. This time though I’m going all out. No more sketchy, poorly written online tutorials. It turns out my schools library (and, by extension, I) have access to TONS (!!!) of books online. I’m not talking about the ones that you see on digg with the title “AWESOME: Thousands of free online books!” I mean O’Reilly books. Yeah, they’re legit.
So anyway, I found a bunch of beginner-Cocoa/intermediate-programmer books that I’m working through. I also found a couple Cocoa podcasts (CocoaCast and CocoaRadio) that have helped keep my interest up.
I’ve only been messing around with command line apps, just getting used to syntax, and XCode.
Actually, that’s something I meant to mention: XCode is weird. Maybe it’s just because I’m used to Eclipse for writing Java (which I realize I neglected to mention was my first and most proficient language) but something just doesn’t feel right, what with having all these separate windows, each with it’s own set of views. It’s gonna take some getting used to.
I haven’t had any crazy revelations about how awesome the language is but, when I do, you (and by “you” I mean the non-existent people reading this…) will be the first to know about it.
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