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More fun with AppleScript - closing tabs in Safari
I go through a lot of browser tabs when I'm working, so I needed to cook up a way to quickly close a bunch of tabs in Safari. Safari already has a way to close all tabs except the current tab, so we just need a way to … -
Hooray for automation!
I just wrote my first AppleScript ever :)The problem: I found myself doing too much pointing, clicking, and thinking to do the following things:Rate the currently-playing track in iTunesTell Last.fm that I "love" the tr… -
On second thought, go ahead and mess with a good thing
A few hours after I finished bitching about IDEs the other day, I remembered PIDA, an IDE that I had used a couple of years ago. I pulled off a couple of successful projects with it back then, but I stopped using it beca… -
Don't mess with a good thing
About a year ago I blogged about EasyEclipse, but I didn't stick with it. I've got a lot of time and effort invested in vim, and I'm pretty productive with it, so I fought the temptation of a shiny IDE and decided to sti… -
Ted Stevens almost got it right.
The internet is not a series of tubes... it's a series of pipes! Yahoo Pipes is a new web application that lets you take data like feeds and search results, merge them, filter them and mash them up in a variety of ways, … -
Hello f*cking world
Via Reddit, here's a link to what is possibly the most vulgar "Hello World" program in existence.It's written in the Fuckfuck language, one of a number of esoteric programming languages fathered by Brainfuck. These lang… -
Worky stuff
I just finished the first bit of AJAX programming that I've ever done - a news page that lets you add sections and rearrange them on the page with drag & drop. If you've ever seen Netvibes or Google's personaliz… -
EasyEclipse
A while back, monsur blogged about Aptana, a web development environment that runs on top of the Eclipse IDE. My reaction to that was to run away screaming. I generally shun IDEs and instead use discrete tools to manage… -
Coders' block
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Evil, thy name is The Python Challenge
Remember "Myst" and those other games from the early 90's, where you'd mosey into a level, find clues, and solve a puzzle to move to the next level? The Python Challenge is like that, but you solve the puzzles with Pytho…
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