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Realtime MarkDown Editor

Jamison White — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:06:47 +0000

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 (there are lots of these)
http://softwaremaniacs.org/playground/showdown-highlight/

MarkDownDeep.Net
http://www.toptensoftware.com/markdowndeep/

MarkDownHelper for MVC on NuGet
http://blog.dantup.com/2011/04/markdownhelper-on-nuget-using-markdowndeep

@Html.Markdown(Model.YourMarkdownPropertyHere)

Sunny Arrakis by ~DrFaustusAU

Jamison White — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:43:39 +0000

Sunny Arrakis by ~DrFaustusAU.

I’m a huge Dune fan and would love to get this as a poster.

mac apache asp.net – Google Search

Jamison White — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:58:09 +0000

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.

Mac with Mercurial GUI

Jamison White — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:40:57 +0000

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
Install SourceTree as Mercurial GUI
1. Commercial product that is currently free
2. In preferences select DiffMerge as diff and merge tool
3. When setting up repo, add your username to the URL so that you don’t have to type in username and password all the time
Install KOD for decent text editor (optional)

* I installed from web sites, but I know a few of these are available in the Mac AppStore.

Mac Research Setup

Mecurial GUI’s

SourceTree – Good; selected
MacHG – Good
Murky – Bad; Still in alpha
TortiseHG – Install is bad

Diff/Merge Tools

DiffMerge – OK; selected
DeltaWalker – buggy
Kdiff3 – ugly
Araxis — $130 license
P4Merge – Crazy expensive

AppRiver Service Bus

Jamison White — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:46:35 +0000

How to: Define a Class That Can Provide Identical Functionality on Different Data Types (Visual Basic)

Jamison White — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:48:35 +0000

How to: Define a Class That Can Provide Identical Functionality on Different Data Types (Visual Basic)

via msdn.microsoft.com

AOL Acquires Personal Profile Startup About.Me (After 4 days out of beta!)

Jamison White — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:16:38 +0000

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.

The Hedgehog and the Fox

Jamison White — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:12:28 +0000

“the fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing”

via The Hedgehog and the Fox – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Tekpub: 4 – Loose Design with Interfaces

Jamison White — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:59:50 +0000

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.

Windows 7 Shortcuts

Jamison White — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:19:39 +0000

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 maximized.
Win+Left/Right arrows: Dock the window to each side of the monitor.
Shift+Win+Left/Right arrows: Move the window to the monitor on the left or right.

=== TaskBar

Win+number (1-9): Starts the application pinned to the taskbar in that position, or switches to that program.
Shift+Win+number (1-9): Starts a new instance of the application pinned to the taskbar in that position.
Ctrl+Win+number (1-9): Cycles through open windows for the application pinned to the taskbar in that position.
Alt+Win+number (1-9): Opens the Jump List for the application pinned to the taskbar.
Win+T: Focus and scroll through items on the taskbar.
Win+B: Focuses the System Tray icons
Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program or quickly open another instance of a program.
Ctrl+Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program as an administrator.
Shift+Right-click on a taskbar button: Show the window menu for the program (like XP does).
Shift+Right-click on a grouped taskbar button: Show the window menu for the group.
Ctrl+Click on a grouped taskbar button: Cycle through the windows of the group.

=== Windows Navigation

Ctrl+Shift+N: Creates a new folder in Windows Explorer.
Alt+Up: Goes up a folder level in Windows Explorer.
Alt+P: Toggles the preview pane in Windows Explorer.
Shift+Right-Click on a file: Adds Copy as Path, which copies the path of a file to the clipboard.
Shift+Right-Click on a file: Adds extra hidden items to the Send To menu.
Shift+Right-Click on a folder: Adds Command Prompt Here, which lets you easily open a command prompt in that folder.
Win+P: Adjust presentation settings for your display.
Win+(+/-): Zoom in/out.
Win+G: Cycle between the Windows Gadgets on your screen.

via The Master List of New Windows 7 Shortcuts.