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Living Room / twitter updates from a desktop application with a global shortcut. Possible?

« Last post by urlwolf on December 24, 2008, 09:16 AM »

I'm looking for to do twitter updates from a desktop application with a global shortcut. If possible, I'd like to update facebook and linkedIn as well. Global shortcut indispensable. Do you know of any?

Thanks

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Living Room / Re: 'fit to witdth' feature in opera: any way to replicate it on Firefox?

« Last post by urlwolf on December 14, 2008, 05:09 PM »

Thanks city_zen.
No default zoom is not what I meant, but it's handy nonetheless.
And yes keyconfig was the plugin I was looking for.

Still, the 'fit to width' thing seems to be not there for firefox. Surprising.

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Living Room / 'fit to witdth' feature in opera: any way to replicate it on Firefox?

« Last post by urlwolf on December 09, 2008, 05:13 PM »

I love the 'fit to witdth' feature in opera: Is there any way to replicate it on Firefox? That, and assignable shortcuts (the extension that gave that superpower to FF died with the upgrade to 3.0) prevent me to use FF seriously.

When I hit a site that doesn't work on Opera (with google, you are bound to; the new gmail displays wrong in Opera, and today I couldn't even log into google groups), I open FF... to close it again when I'm done because of the lack of those features.

Any ideas on how to get these working? Thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera 10.0 Alpha 1

« Last post by urlwolf on December 06, 2008, 02:26 PM »

addenum: it may be that I'm using skrommel's speedKeys for the arrow keys and that screws up Opera 10's scrolling. It works fine on 9.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera 10.0 Alpha 1

« Last post by urlwolf on December 06, 2008, 02:25 PM »

But Allen, were you not using M2 as your primary client? (Oh, spell check works finally! ). Have you moved to gmail?

In my install of Opera 10 alpha the windows menu is gone; but you can still tile pages right clicking on the tabs.

The scrolling (one of Opera's best features) is kind of jumpy in 10.

The one gripe I have is that with Opera you never know if you are missing some functionality from a site; they are in fact the most incompatible browser on earth (baring text-only browsers). I don't think Opera 10 will fix this.

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Living Room / Re: does win XP 64-bit suck?

« Last post by urlwolf on December 05, 2008, 11:24 AM »

Anyone has any experience on windows Server 2008? And what prices are we talking about here?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE

« Last post by urlwolf on November 30, 2008, 05:12 PM »

More on the IDE battle:
http://praisecursean...-of-python-ides.html

I'm finding IDEA really great. Their diff is second to none; it makes beyond compare look like a toy. Worth the price of admission just because of that!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE

« Last post by urlwolf on November 30, 2008, 11:53 AM »

The thing with netbeans (and IDEA) is that I never managed to get a decent console working on it. The default one doesn't even have history. That's pretty deal-breaker. But I've seen videos of netbeans with a decent console. I just don't know how to get it to work (in Ruby or Python). If anyone finds out, please post.

There's also a nice stand-alone python debugger here:
http://winpdb.org/download/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE

« Last post by urlwolf on November 30, 2008, 11:51 AM »

There's no perl IDE that I know of that is worth anything.

IntelliJ looks fantastic to understand large codebases. Its dependency feature offers a tree of where a function is called, and a small code preview next to it (nifty!).

It doesn't compare to say pydev because they don't even have a debugger, but I don't discard buying IDEA if they keep pushing the python plugin.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE

« Last post by urlwolf on November 29, 2008, 05:40 AM »

Just for completeness:

boa-constructor.sourceforge.net
Good for doing GUIs. Has anyone tried this? Could be good for NANY2009.

IntelliJ idea do have a plugin for Python:
http://plugins.intel...j.net/plugin/?id=631

This could be promising as many people swear by IDEA.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE

« Last post by urlwolf on November 27, 2008, 04:53 AM »

http://meandubuntu.w...rch-of-a-python-ide/
This is the most exhaustive review to date.
Note that he hates Eclipse + pydev with passion (contrasting with Tinjaw and 40Hz's views here!). Hilarious:

"using the IDE is at least twice as complicated as the program you are trying to write."

He seems to like Komodo edit.

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Living Room / Why Vista's DRM Is Bad For You and other jewels by Bruce Schneier

« Last post by urlwolf on November 25, 2008, 07:14 AM »

Bruce Schneier is a security guru. He's also a good writer:

Why Vista's DRM Is Bad For You
http://schneier.com/essay-157.html

In general, all essays are good:
http://www.schneier.com/essays.html


edit by jgpaiva: fixed link

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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / Re: HowLong2It - GOE Challenge 2007 Entry

« Last post by urlwolf on November 24, 2008, 07:16 AM »

I love this little program!
It'd be great to use one of those gantt charts and show the intevals in days between each key date (I use it for conference deadlines!).

I think it may be hard since this is autoIt and there may be no gantt libraries for it... but it'd be a killer addition. Just seeing the times in a continuum would help.

Also, using gcal integration to substract dates you maked as away in the computation of days left would be killer.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Group windows for easy minimizing/maximizing

« Last post by urlwolf on November 22, 2008, 05:01 PM »

I get broken links for  Window Tabifier. any other place I can download it from?

Nevermind, I found this one (not sure if it's the same):
http://www.codeproje.../WindowTabifier.aspx

It doesn't work with acrobat though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Writing to two folders simultaneously. Possible? Tired of running synch progs

« Last post by urlwolf on November 22, 2008, 08:50 AM »

For those considering mirrorFolder but owning a license of SFFS (Darwin?).  I noticed that SFFS can now do simultaneous writing to two folders with a synch profile that runs in real time (!). So no need to get mirrorFolder just for that. It works well, I'm amazed at SFFS. It's really powerful and my favorite synch tool, although I have posted here often how I shot myself in the foot with it at times.

I still think the interface in SFFS is not the best, but the functionality definitely is top-notch.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE

« Last post by urlwolf on November 22, 2008, 07:11 AM »

@kartal
You get a popup with an error about a dll?
I do now too. (mine is about python25, you may have an older version)
I think it could be related to an incompatibility with tortoise. I reinstalled tortoise HG and started getting this error too.

I found the solution here:
http://code.google.c...issues/detail?id=189

For "all user" installations, PyScripter just tries to load the Pythonxx.dll from the
python path. Mercurail contains a python dll and is on the path. So I can see three
solutions.


a)  Make sure that %windows%\system32 is higher int the path than TortoiseHg(Mercurial)
b)  Install Python25 as a single user installation.  In that case PyScripter will
pick the python25.dll from the installation path.
c) Use the PYTHONDLLPATH flag as you did

Still, I'm going to test netbeans now because I love it.
by the way pyscripter is great to explore someone else's code thanks to the variable description popups!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE

« Last post by urlwolf on November 21, 2008, 02:22 PM »

Before anyone beats me to it: if you are on windows try pyScripter:
http://pyscripter.googlepages.com/

By far the best I have tried:

•       free
  
•       Portable
  
•       Ctrl+scroll moves fast around code!
  
•       Has execute selection
  
•       Tells you the variable type with a pop up, where is defined, whether it's global, etc!
  
•       Fast (not interpreted, delphi)
  
•       Find function, find definition  works
  
•       Has unitTest integration
  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE

« Last post by urlwolf on November 21, 2008, 12:33 PM »

well, netbeans 6.5 was released and there's no support for python.
I've been playing with ERIC and I like it.
But is there anything that supports django too?

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General Software Discussion / Re: cofundos: post a project, they will gather a team, produce OSS

« Last post by urlwolf on November 20, 2008, 01:35 PM »

So this was it, sorry, found it:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9532.0
microPledge: Funding Software by Pledging to Donate Money

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General Software Discussion / cofundos: post a project, they will gather a team, produce OSS

« Last post by urlwolf on November 20, 2008, 01:34 PM »

http://cofundos.org/

This is similar to a website that mouser posted here. THe project died out (I cannot remember the name nor find the thread, sorry!).

This one is different in that it's still active and it produces OSS only. Interesting!

What do you think?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera - An exercise on frustration

« Last post by urlwolf on November 17, 2008, 04:35 PM »

lashiec,

I have disabled that fancy indexing. It works ok without it. you have to go to opera:config and do a search for suggestions or something like that.

But I agree Opera is a far cry from what it could have been and it reeks of bad management.

What worries me even more is that they have managed to corner themselves. They are now officially the most incompatible browser on earth (well, text-only browsers not included). More sites don't work with Opera (fully) than ever before. Their JS engine is not even considered fast anymore. And there are no signs of them really caring. A pity since they demonstrated they are an innovative company.

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General Software Discussion / any way to add tabs to any application (adobe acrobat makes me crazy)?

« Last post by urlwolf on November 17, 2008, 12:57 PM »

I think I've seen this before here, but I cannot find the thread...
Is there any way to add tabs to any application (adobe acrobat makes me crazy)?

Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: phraseexpress: how does it work?

« Last post by urlwolf on November 17, 2008, 12:46 PM »

If I type a word a few times, it still doesn't predict it.
It offers no predictions whatsoever.

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General Software Discussion / Re: phraseexpress: how does it work?

« Last post by urlwolf on November 17, 2008, 07:31 AM »

I agree with TucknDar, ahk is a programming language and phraseExpress is a tool for a specific need.
You can write something similar in ahk (in fact, I started, and abandoned the project).

Anyway I still cannot get PE to work as advertised.
I want it to predict every single word.
Example, if I type now p-r-e it should suggest a list like '1-predict, 2-pretentious...' etc.
Here's a pic of my settings:

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Intro

« Last post by urlwolf on November 14, 2008, 08:27 AM »

quick note...
If you don't have an idea for a project that you can implement in a short time, please consider picking up an open-source project and coutribute to it a feature or two that you would want. Besides being an incredible mind excercise (reading somebody else's code is challenging, but you might improve a lot if you do it well), your end result could be more interesting than a tool that you slapped together by yourself.

For example, I'm considering getting some ruby project and contribute to it. Would that be good for the NANY challenge? Otherwise, I'm bond to do some crappy timekeeping proggie like last year