Month: August 2007
Color Inspiration: The Big Island of Hawaii
Color Inspiration: The Big Island of Hawaii
What a brilliant idea. The other takes beautiful images of …well life, and picks out a color scheme based on that image. Sounds confusing, but here is an example:
Twitter Posts for 2007-08-16
- I heart Last.fm …such a good selection of music #
- I think I need a vacation…maybe I will try to take this Friday off (hey, it’s a mini vacation) #
- http://tinyurl.com/yrb456 Finding colors in nature. VERY cool idea #
- I should have went to bed an hour ago…oh well. Extra coffee tomorrow 🙂 #
- Yup, I’m exhausted…ugh #
- Starbucks – check, at my desk – check…uh…now what? I need some work this morning. #
- Digging into some Visual Basic…did I mention I don’t know Visual Basic? #
- Ready to go home now… #
- oy… PC is fixed, I think. Wow, was that ever weird?! …reinstalling everyone all over again. #
Talib Kweli – Hot Thing Video
This is a great song, very chill, very smooth, and with a great beat. The video for the song also happens to be great as well. It’s done in the style of those HP commercials (I think it’s HP at least) where the person is manipulating digital photos in real life…just watch the video to see what I mean.
Twitter Posts for 2007-08-15
- The wait begins, I’m moving to T-Mobile in December 🙂 #
- I have a fetish for to do lists, there, I said it. #
- All internal drives should be SATA (HDDs, CD drives, Floppies, etc)… SATA is so much easier. #
- it’s definitely time for an early bedtime #
- Busy day filled with meetings, and hopefully fixing a security hole. #
- I am on a very exciting conference call… I wish I could italicize “exciting”… #
- coffee run… #
- http://tinyurl.com/2pdcld Scuba diving in Mexico (June 2007) #
- http://tinyurl.com/349fbc MS Office 2007 SP1 Tech Preview… #
Twitter Posts for 2007-08-14
- http://tinyurl.com/2av7vl Revolutionary painting program… #
- http://tinyurl.com/26v8fo Ridiculously pretty islands…who needs a vacation? #
- gotta love Twitter-spam… “Twam”? #
- another busy day at work…well, maybe not quite as busy as usual *knocks on wood* #
- Productive day at work: found a huge security bug. #
Twitter Posts for 2007-08-13
- grumpy, and it’s definitely time for bed. #
- trying to get situated on this Monday morning. The weather is supposed to be gorgeous (Sunny, 75, light breeze). #
- YABDAO – Yet Another Busy Day At the Office…is it 5pm yet? #
- I got offered a very impressive part-time position (same as my internship)…very cool. #
- http://tinyurl.com/ysh5b8 A new meaning to “rubber stamping” something… #
- watching a little preseason football. #
- @sarah I hear ya (pun intended). I go from Jedi Mind Tricks to Frank Sinatra to Deftones to Justin Timberlake… gotta love musical variety #
Twitter Posts for 2007-08-12
- I wish I didn’t feel this exhausted… #
- Coffee, a book, and I am headed outside. #
- The dog has been walked, time for more reading and eventually lunch #
- http://tinyurl.com/2k65fm 10 Most expensive paintings (Irises is the only one I’m familiar with) #
- http://tinyurl.com/yt6a6z Facebook’s Source Code (really not very interesting) #
- Zomg! my MS keyboard works out of the box with my mac mini (media keys too!) #
- maybe reading, maybe lunch, maybe watching the Red Sox game, but Definitely doing nothing productive. #
- trying to get Zimbra up and running (for the 4th or 5th time). I’d love to try it out… #
- @Steve Spalding I am working on setting up a Zimbra virtual appliance as a test. I want to see if it’s comparable to Exchange (with OWA). #
- The price of a new iMac is still not easy to swallow. I just built a comparable Dell for $200 less. #
- http://www.toodledo.com Very cool To-Do list web app. I love me some To-Do lists 🙂 #
Interesting Links: 8.12.07
- The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about regular expressions: Regular expressions are strings formatted using a special pattern notation that allow you to describe and parse text. Many programmers (even some good ones) disregard regular expressions as line noise, and it’s a damned shame because they come in handy so often.
- Power replacements for built-in Windows utilities: Power users need power utilities, and Windows’ default system programs barely get the job done. Over time third-party developers have stepped up and built superior replacements to programs like Notepad, Paint, Windows Explorer and the Command Prompt.
- Introduction to Cygwin, part I – Introduction and setup: Cygwin is a Windows command line on steroids which runs tons of well-known, age-old, useful Linux Unix commands.
- Introduction to Cygwin, part II – More useful commands: This installment will continue the Cygwinnery with some more useful commands at the trusty green shell prompt.
- Introduction to Cygwin, Part III – Scripts, packages and more: This third and final installment will tackle adding packages to your Cygwin installation, creating scripts from a set of commands, and a few Cygwin and Unix resources.
- CSS Layouts: The Fixed. The Fluid. The Elastic. : Which Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) layout is best? Is one more accessible than the other? More usable? What are the drawbacks and how are they dealt with?
- New elements in HTML 5: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium.
It’s been another one of those weeks where way too much is going on during the week so I collect bookmarks to read and post about individually, but we know that doesn’t happen. So here is a week in review:
- Regular expression can seem scary, but they can be very useful in the right situation.
- If the default system applications in Windows can’t do something that you’d like to do then look for alternatives. You will find a plethora of great alternatives (and they are usually free too).
- Cygwin is an interesting thing, and I won’t lie: I still don’t think I have quite got my head around when/why I’d use it. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve tried to do a “ls” at the Windows
craplinecommand line. - CSS layouts can be an easy thing to code, but the initial planning to decide which type of layout to use is always the biggest challenge. This is a great summary of the trade offs for each type of layout.
- HTML 5 is still a ways off in the future, I realize that, but I am still intrigued by the possibilities that it
mightwill bring when it’s ready. Mark my words, Microsoft will join the development effort eventually.