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Developer's Corner / Quantity Always Trumps Quality - Short But True Blog Post

« Last post by mouser on August 03, 2008, 06:19 AM »

Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror hasn't been putting out his best work on the Coding Horror blog lately, probably because he's focused on his new Stack Overflow project which will have its grand opening soon, and today's post isn't really saying anything new, BUT it is saying something that everyone needs to hear about the central importance of just being productive..

Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the "quantity" group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.

http://www.codinghor...archives/001160.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strategies for international travellers regarding new US Customs seizure policy

« Last post by mouser on August 03, 2008, 06:03 AM »

It's a totally unacceptable situation..

I mean it's one thing to totally go through and copy your entire hard drive contents -- that's one whole universe of privacy invasion, but then the thought that they might actually take your computer from you for some prolonged period? Some of us live in our computers and this would just be devastating.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.41.01 - AUG 1, 2008

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2008, 08:05 PM »

Note: In addition to the options dialog which i think is 1000000x better than old one and hopefully will make it easier for people to find and understand the different options, i am really happy with this new feature:

• Added current browser url to info that gets captured and can be added to image comments.

So now if you take a screencapture of your browser it will actually grab the url from the current page and embed it in text form in the image comments.  Makes it easier to remember where you grabbed it from (especially if you later thumbnail it, etc.).  Just make sure you dont share a screenshot with sensitive information about the url of the web apge that you dont want to share (you can modify your file naming/comment template to remove this info if you want).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.41.01 - AUG 1, 2008

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2008, 07:58 PM »

New beta version is uploaded -- this is a new build with a completely revamped options dialog.. hope you like it.  Please let me know any issues.  I've not made this available on the updater since i want to hear from some beta testers before i release into the larger population.

Once this passes muster I will start adding more features.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: File extension filter

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2008, 05:04 PM »

in the search directories entries.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Cannot hide status bar on 2.27.01

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2008, 01:23 PM »

you are right; i will try to fix this weekend.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Title bar at Startup

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2008, 08:34 AM »

i'd appreciate a report if this solves it:
https://www.donation...nshotCaptorSetup.exe

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Living Room / Re: Skimp or splurge?

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2008, 07:22 AM »

Great idea for a thread.

Skimp: Wine, Computer Speakers
Splurge: Vacuum cleaner, Kitchen Table

ps. regarding zaine's advice to splurge on a kitchen knife, this Victorinox $20 kitchen knife was recommended by Cook's Illustrated and it rocks: http://www.amazon.co...Fibrox/dp/B000638D32

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Reqst: Hide bottom panel

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2008, 04:23 AM »

What if i just let you drag and hide it completely?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Title bar at Startup

« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2008, 04:07 AM »

I think I actually fixed this a while ago but havent released the new version of screenshot captor.  I will do so this weekend 

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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe

« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2008, 07:51 PM »

dcuhelper.zip has now been updated, download from here: https://www.donation...tware/Mouser/Updater

  v1.03.01 - August 1, 2008 - added -t commandline option
              fixed bug in opening dcupdater page
              improved dialog on updater not installed
              if no commandline options are passed it will try to load .dcupdate file in current dir and check for updates

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UrlSnooper / Re: Why can't I click 'Sniff Network'?

« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2008, 04:21 PM »

all's well that ends well -- your post might still be useful to someone having same problems.  thanks for posting the update that you got it working.

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Living Room / Re: A heartwarming video with a big kitty!

« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2008, 11:43 AM »

Another heartwarming story about a man and a dog.  Don't read unless you have some tissues nearby:
http://ktla.trb.com/...ited,0,5137067.story

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Files created in Application Data and System32 directories

« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2008, 09:48 AM »

it's me being sneaky.. they are created in the app dir and system dir, if one is deleted and the other exists it will be recreated from the other location

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Site/Forum Features / Re: request: "latest post of"-page with only thread titles and new post indication

« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2008, 09:08 AM »

can you explain a bit more about what you wish the page showed, and which url are you talking about starting from?

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Files created in Application Data and System32 directories

« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2008, 08:42 AM »

it is from the donationcoder license key system. the files tell it when you installed the program so it knows when to complain and tell you to visit the site after 6 months to download a new license key.  if you delete it it will be recreated.  kind of annoying i know

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Living Room / Re: The InfoWorld Programming IQ Test

« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2008, 08:01 AM »

This score tells you nothing about how good you are as a programmer.
My finding is that self-taught people are as good as any formally educated coder, except for one major difference:

The formally educated coders often don't obey good coding standards but know that they should be ashamed of it.
The self-taught people often don't obey good coding standards and don't realize they are doing anything wrong.

 

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Living Room / Re: A heartwarming video with a big kitty!

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2008, 05:05 PM »

so cool. 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: YourFonts - Generate a font based on your handwriting

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2008, 03:34 PM »

I agree with your intuition that having users draw accents and then trying to combine them via software is unlikely to yield satisfactory results.

I think having an additional template makes sense.  Another approach might be to have a template where users can just draw any characters they want and specify explicitly what code point each of their drawn characters maps to.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: About signing up to download freeware license keys - READ IN PLEASE

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2008, 01:41 PM »

nploos, here is our help section on using the license keys:
https://www.donationcoder.com/Help/2/

You can also email me directly for more help ([email protected]) or let us know more specifically what the problem is.  Usually that help section clears up most confusions.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR Plugin: FCalc

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2008, 01:27 PM »

you can also do simple sequential operations like this (each one on it's own line):

123
+34
+4
+343
100
-100


in other words if you just do OPERATION VALUE [ENTER]
it uses the last value as the left hand side.

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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2008, 11:15 AM »

i will fix this in next day or two and then try to implement your other ideas through august.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater Feature Requests

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2008, 11:12 AM »

great suggestions, i'm going to try to most or all of these in august.

Speaking of which, I also have a question about adding programs to the "Available for Installation" list. I found out I could do that by making a .dcupdate file with the Local version # of "not installed" but how does it know for sure if the application isn't really installed?

dc updater will always check for installed versions of any program references in a .dcupdate file as "not installed", so basically if a program is installed then the .dcupdate file saying "not installed" will be ignored.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR Plugin: FCalc

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2008, 10:35 AM »

hi cansee.

yes, fcalc needs more documentation.. i guess i originally expected it would just be a sample plugin and someone would come up with a better one.

to assign variables, just do:
a=5
cost=2322.23

etc.

then just use the variables whereever you want.

you can edit the variables from the plugin advanced configuration options.

as for functions available, they are from muparser:
http://muparser.sour...features.html#idDef2

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Living Room / Re: Wikis, word processors, and the writing process

« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2008, 10:14 AM »

Very nice thoughts mike..

I really like your idea of focusing on:

"collect, connect, correct." If you're writing something, just write stuff down as it comes to you, then go back later and group like paragraphs together, and then start revising, and repeat the sequence as needed. Just because you read the text linearly doesn't mean you have to write it that way.

i'd love to see a simple note taking application that was focused on facilitating that workflow.