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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by justice on September 22, 2008, 03:32 AM »

Cybersearch, integration of site searches within the awesomebar, its so much faster.
Stop or Reload, merges stop / reload button.

After these two, you can remove the searchbox, (and homepage) icons, move all bookmarks fto the side of the awesome bar, then hide all but the one toolbar. very powerful.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Web Developer Tools Needed: Website Downloader and Broken Image/Link Checker

« Last post by justice on September 21, 2008, 06:05 PM »

find broken links on your site: http://home.snafu.de...tilman/xenulink.html XENU!
Let you know then the site is offline: http://mon.itor.us

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gbridge

« Last post by justice on September 20, 2008, 03:35 AM »

This is like hamachi but then as a bolt-on to google talk.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Who Amongst us Plays WoW?

« Last post by justice on September 20, 2008, 03:28 AM »

I played for two years but stopped and have been trying other mmorpg games since. Nothing catches me like WoW did, but I am totally bored / braindead when I've decided to go back in the past after 20 minutes. Also I really don't like the values it promotes, I can expand on some other time that if you don't mind a critical note

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: TextCrawler 1.1 - Search and replace across files

« Last post by justice on September 19, 2008, 07:42 AM »

Great tool!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you keep two computers synchronized? i.e. work + home. If so, how?

« Last post by justice on September 18, 2008, 07:49 AM »

as long as you don't kiss it.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to maintain a reusable updatable code

« Last post by justice on September 17, 2008, 06:16 PM »

The robocopy method is unfortunately necessary because subversion only allows checkouts to empty folders.

-justice (July 21, 2008, 03:15 AM)

BTW, in the latest subversion they added the --force switch to checkout (and export but maybe that one already existed) that allows you to checkout in populated folders which existing files when already existed will be treated as locally modified files. very nice. this means its easy to create a testing 'build' by using svn update on a working copy on a testing server, which was created from svn co --force.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to maintain a reusable updatable code

« Last post by justice on September 17, 2008, 06:07 PM »

You can use the  svn:externals property to specify that a folder in your respository should come from an external repository. so say you have a /trunk/includes/shared structure in repository "test" with another repository "sharedcode" that has shared code, then something like this should do it:

(navigate to /trunk/includes)
svn propedit svn:externals .
(a text editor window opens for you to specify the property)
shared svn://server/sharedcode/trunk
(save and close)
svn update (updates working copy including latest revision from the sharedcode/trunk repository in the /trunk/includes/shared working copy folder)
svn commit -m "added svn:external from sharedcode"

hope i explained that ok.

and from now on all developers have this in their working copy. svn update, checkout, export etc all work with the externals and any change to the /trunk/includes/shared will commit to the sharedcode repository

http://blogs.gnome.o...externals-for-noobs/ might explain it better?

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Developer's Corner / Re: autohotkey arrays

« Last post by justice on September 17, 2008, 12:00 PM »

So with your example if I want to remove one item i have to look through the whole array and check a condition, breaking the loop if condition is true. Hm

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you keep two computers synchronized? i.e. work + home. If so, how?

« Last post by justice on September 17, 2008, 11:57 AM »

http://DropBox. Only 2GB at the moment, but in the very near future 50GB. It just doesn't get easier than this, they solved the problem. You don't have to push a button.

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Developer's Corner / autohotkey arrays

« Last post by justice on September 17, 2008, 07:45 AM »

I'm always fighting with them can you tell me what's the easiest way to maintain a list of strings, add a listitem, remove a listitem, return a listitem? For example I'd like to keep a list of hidden window titles and then unhide one and remove it from the list. Autohotkey makes it really hard, I usually build a concatenated string and split them into an array but then when i want to return a value but am not sure where its position is it's near impossible.

Any ideas?

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Living Room / Re: Flash Toy of the Week: How Well Can you Differentiate Colors?

« Last post by justice on September 17, 2008, 07:02 AM »

Interesting test, wonder if an alternative could be made that spots color blindness.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does anyone use an online snippets manager?

« Last post by justice on September 17, 2008, 06:41 AM »

i'd suggest creating a free subversion repository online and checking out a copy on any machine. I realize this is not what you asked but it's better integrated and more secure / convenient, imho.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to maintain a reusable updatable code

« Last post by justice on September 17, 2008, 04:04 AM »

Just an update, after about 80 tries and two days I had created a post-commit hook for a shared repository that did an update to a server working copy and then committed it for every project that included our shared code. A lot of hassle and now committing shared code was took 4 minutes to come through.

then i learned about svn externals yesterday and in 5 minutes set the same thing up a lot better.

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Living Room / Re: Free (or cheap) simple database app to generate XML files.

« Last post by justice on September 16, 2008, 08:12 AM »

Google base?
http://www.google.com/base

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General Software Discussion / Looking for a second task holder?

« Last post by justice on September 16, 2008, 07:42 AM »

I've got a lot of tasks running simultaneously, and have moved the task bar to the right of the wide-screen so I can read the window titles better. However when I have over 12 windows open it becomes annoying. I've used hide to system tray software in the past but I've got over 15 system tray icons already. So what I'm looking for is a 'drawer' that can hold my windows out of sight, and a way to hide windows to it and restore them from it.

idea:
taskbar = primary tasks;
taskdrawer = secondary tasks such as winamp, things i'm not working on;
system tray = for the rest.

I've started on a autohotkey script to do this but it's a bit more complicated than i thought (restore individual window, autohotkey is crap with arrays). Any software out there that can fill the gap? Bonus points for keyboard shortcuts. i don't want to use a virtual desktop manager

Actually its similar to my PutAside program but I want to hide windows even though i'm working on the same task, not all of them..

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Locate32 Plugin for FARR by Okke

« Last post by justice on September 16, 2008, 07:22 AM »

Great idea. I'd love to have a go at it but I've got too many things on the agenda atm. But i'd try and use ASP.NET as the coding then will be trivial and it could be bundled with cassini meaning it can be installed on a desktop or something and forgotten about, and work with IIS if tis a server using xcopy deployment of Asp.net. Screwturn wiki has similar deployment options.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drop Box lands

« Last post by justice on September 16, 2008, 03:21 AM »

Next week, you’ll be able to buy a 50GB Dropbox for $9.99/month, or $99.99/year. Don’t worry — the free 2GB accounts will always be free, and you can keep the amount of space you had in the beta. Stay tuned for more on this.

-http://blog.getdropbox.com/

I hope there's a middle way, 20GB for $5 or something, or even 10GB for $3, spending $10 a month on a web service I still can't get around to.

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Developer's Corner / Re: stackoverflow.com - programmers Q&A site by jeff atwood + joel spolsky is public

« Last post by justice on September 15, 2008, 06:27 PM »

(And once a guy writes a UI design book, never let him design an actual UI people will be using. Those modal-looking text entry "dialog boxes" that dim the rest of the browser window are soooo inconvenient and un-Web-like, I think.

-tranglos (September 15, 2008, 02:13 PM)

He didn't design the UI they outsourced it (can't find the entry on the codinghorror blog about it)

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Developer's Corner / Re: stackoverflow.com - programmers Q&A site by jeff atwood + joel spolsky is public

« Last post by justice on September 15, 2008, 10:14 AM »

As far as I understood it's not jsut a question and answer site (although it sort of functions like one), the goal is to create a repository/ reference of best solutions to programming problems, and its a mix between Wikipedia / experts exchange and yahoo answers.

For example answers and questions can be edited by other people if this improves the reference value.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TaskTome: Powerful Task Organiser

« Last post by justice on September 11, 2008, 10:11 AM »

Yes I'm liking the uncluttered interface very much. It's the opposite of TodoList

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General Software Discussion / TaskTome: Powerful Task Organiser

« Last post by justice on September 11, 2008, 04:17 AM »

Found this program via Lifehacker and freewaregenius, thoguht some of you would be interested

taskTome is a personal information manager which allows you to maintain a list of events, tasks, notes and financial information. taskTome is light-weight program that displays the information that you need to keep track of without cluttering it up with un-needed features and controls, while still allowing you complete control over the information - including the ability to search, format, print, export and customize data.

Features

The main features of taskTome are:

View appointments and events in a monthly calendar,
Maintain a task list with comments,
View and edit rich-text notes and documents,
Manage finances with bank/cash balances.

-http://tasktome.shanemca.com/index.html

from Lifehacker
I'll let you know how I get on with it, if interested.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Review: 10 Things I Learned From Spore

« Last post by justice on September 09, 2008, 07:34 AM »

It's very very good. When you find yourself adapting your creature and strategy to increase your changes and you realise that other animals use the same strategies you know it's good[tm]. I dreamed about it in my sleep.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Best way to sync programming projects?

« Last post by justice on September 09, 2008, 07:29 AM »

I agree with f0dder. You keep a complete history and snapshot of every version of your app you ever had using version control. yeah but if you're on windows i recommend http://www.visualsvn.com/server/ over doing it yourself. You run through one wizard and it's all set up and the options are clear.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Font managers reviews and opinions

« Last post by justice on September 09, 2008, 06:56 AM »

Yep it has its issues and that's why the pc version is not available for download from links although you and i have both found out how to download it