GMail is the new Mutt! Shortcuts galore.
I know, it’s a bold assertion. But, please, bear with me: as a longtime Unix-head, I need a tool that allows me to zoom through my emails rather than click-glance-click-glance-click-yawn-right-click-delete, etc.
Read moreA driver for your Darwin-based keyboard woes
I built this driver in 2007, to support Leopard Darwin on my wife’s laptop (hmmm where’s the “wink wink nudge nudge” smiley when you need it?)
Read moreTwitterified 1.2 is out: multi-accounts, mouse gestures, visual ignore...
Based on the very helpful feedback I received from the Twitterified client users, here is version 1.2’s log:
Read moreTwitterified taking off: is private beta a mistake?
Somehow, seemingly out of nowhere, Twitterers have started to notice Twitterified. I guess a few positive reviews help.
Read moreHow I setup networking for VirtualBox on Ubuntu
Just a quick note: I use VirtualBox daily at work. It provides excellent emulation for my original XP install (the one that came pre-installed on my Dell box!) while my main OS is Ubuntu. Setting up networking is not as straightforward as with VMWare, so here is what I had to do:
Read moreHow To Make The EFF ISP Throttling Tool Work On Leopard
I love the idea of Switzerland, the new EFF tool for checking ISP throttling; unfortunately as of release Zero.0.5, Leopard seems to still be a mere afterthought. Here is how I worked around the few things that were not working out of the box.
Read moreTwitterified…at last!
I cannot believe that it took me so long to get my ducks in a row.First, Twitterified was entirely written in Javascript, like most AIR clients. But some testing showed that rewriting in AS3 would dramatically increase responsiveness.Then, I had to work on my web framework while creating twitterified.com. And finally I was only able to offer a decent video thanks to the overall godness offered by Vimeo.But hey, here it is! For a limited period of time, if you go to the invite page and enter the code “nexus”, you will be automatically added to the private beta program.
Read moreHow I added real ActiveRecord support to adodb
For my new projects, I have decided to use PHP5, mostly because at least a couple projects will be worked on by a team and the learning curve is fairly forgiving.I decided, however, to follow the model offered by Rails. I looked into a few PHP frameworks, such as Akelos, but realized that they were too constraining for our purpose. That’s when I decided to develop my own thin layer framework.
Read moreCurrent Obsessions, June ‘08
It’s a new feature! I spend way too much time reading interesting papers… I should not be so selfish as to not share them.
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