I’ve been playing with MarkDown formatting for my plain text notes. MarkDown is a really lightweight markup language for transforming plaintext to HTML. GitHub and StackOverflow use it for their readme files and comments. When I need a quick HTML preview, Showdown has been a great preview tool. MarkDown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown Showdown — Realtime MarkDown Editor [...]
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13 Oct
Sunny Arrakis by ~DrFaustusAU
Sunny Arrakis by ~DrFaustusAU. I’m a huge Dune fan and would love to get this as a poster.
12 Oct
mac apache asp.net – Google Search
Here Be Dragons!!! Has anyone gotten ASP.Net sites to work on a Mac? I’ve tried out Mono and XSP, but XSP is having trouble with a web service reference. I’m unable to find useful information on XSP in Google. mac apache asp.net – Google Search.
6 Oct
Mac with Mercurial GUI
I needed to help our marketing guys get a couple sites under source control. We have Mercurial and SVN servers already. Mercurial seems like the best choice because it handles directory moves and renames much better than SVN. Mac Source Control Setup* Install Python Install Mercurial for source control management Install DiffMerge for diff/merge tool [...]
7 Jan
How to: Define a Class That Can Provide Identical Functionality on Different Data Types (Visual Basic)
How to: Define a Class That Can Provide Identical Functionality on Different Data Types (Visual Basic) via msdn.microsoft.com
5 Jan
AOL Acquires Personal Profile Startup About.Me (After 4 days out of beta!)
http://ak.c.ooyala.com/cacheable/5a2f27624b7042037224b595b9131328/player_v2.swf via techcrunch.com I agree with the commenters that It’s a case of knowing the right people, but still to get acquired in 4 days is silly.
29 Dec
The Hedgehog and the Fox
“the fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing” via The Hedgehog and the Fox – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
29 Dec
Tekpub: 4 – Loose Design with Interfaces
Tekpub: 4 – Loose Design with Interfaces. I really like his description of “fancy objects”. Previous versions or ARBO were very fancy indeed. Notes: Pass abilities of objects. Pass around interfaces and not objects. Interfaces should be the smallest possible object. If you have 5+ methods make a new interface.
27 Dec
Windows 7 Shortcuts
Lifehacker.com has a great summary of Windows 7 shortcut keys === Windows Management Win+Home: Clear all but the active window. Win+Space: All windows become transparent so you can see through to the desktop. Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window. Shift+Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window vertically. Win+Down arrow: Minimize the window/Restore the window if it’s [...]
