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Firefox 3: thoughts and impressions.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, nerdly
Well, I did my part.
I just installed the latest Firefox as part of download day.
My first thoughts (I haven’t looked at ff3 since and early beta…)
- I miss my bookmarks that all got deleted (meh.)
- I miss(ed) firebug. (getfirebug.com v.1.1 v.1.2 works just fine)
- I miss(ed) firecookie (http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firecookie/firecookie-05-beta/ v0.5 seems to work fine)
- Firefox no longer crashes fatally every time I close it. (seriously, every single time I closed it)
- Startup and shutdown are INCREDIBLY fast compared to ff2.
- I miss my themes… and mozilla.org is a little swamped right now, so I can’t get a new one. However, the default theme is really not bad at all.. I just miss my old one.
We’ll see how well it deals with being left running…
hopefully I’ll never see memory usage of 1,268,300k ever again.
I’ll update with more as I remember things.
Update:
I upgraded to ff3 on my macbook.
- Colorzilla needed to be upgraded ColorZilla v2.
- Bookmarks transferred just fine…
my life as a sitcom.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, nerdly
So, I’m getting married…
For some reason there are a bunch of people that share my and my fiancees names, so I was unable to get dylanandsarah.com or any variation on that… out of frustration, I found a URL that fit my mood.
myfuckingwedding.com
awesome.
in a fit of brilliance, my wife-to-be suggested dylanlovessarah.com. Acquired and set up. Rock.
in a fit of general stupidity, I had extra invitations printed (in comic-sans…) that told people to rsvp @ myfuckingwedding.com… to send to my friends who would undoubtedly find it as hilarious as I do.
Today we found out that at least one of the “informal” rsvp cards was inadvertently sent to one of Sarah’s cousins.
Hilarity ensues.
Sometimes technology is too much for me.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, nerdly
Like when I IM twitter in response to an SMS I just reveived from twitter.
To respond to the person sitting 8 feet away from me.
(and then blog about it.)
-d.
google product consintency.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, google, nerdly
I use reader. A lot. I love it.
I also use gmail, which I also love.
I hate going to gmail quickly reviewing my unread email and hitting shift-a and not having it mark everything as read.
I have done so at least five times.
today.
Anyone know of a greasemonkey script that ports the reader keyboard shortcuts to gmail?
-d.
charts w/ the google chart api.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, nerdly, programming
What if there was something that could merge a sad love for data (and the display thereof) and a disturbing affinity for the web and its development.
What if.
What … t f
Oh hell yes. A relatively simple API that will generate a simple .png of a chart based on data you pass it. Awesome.
so, I had some fun playing with it today.
It’s pretty damned easy to use and puts together some pretty nice results…
not too shabby, right?
Harper suggested I write a php wrapper for the api.
I told him it almost wasn’t worth it since the API is so easy to use. However, being the sad, lonely man that I am, I spent my friday night playing computers.
So, after playing with the API for a couple hours, I have some issues…
- No support for negative numbers. None. WTF?!
- Bar/Line charts only support numbers <=100
check it out:
Lame.
But, there are ways around most of these…
all data needs to be converted to a percentage. So, 1000|100|10|-10 would become 100|10|1|-1.
Negative numbers are still an issue… some people over on the Google Chart API Google Group were talking about adding a second set of data to mimic the x-axis to get the display of the negative number to kinda work.
I decided not to bother with that just yet.
So, I started working on a PHP wrapper for the API that took all of these things into consideration…
…which I should have kinda working this weekend.
-d.
first week down.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, work
well. first week at the new job is done.
I can’t possibly express how excited I am for the time ahead.
There is really nothing quite like new and interesting challenges to make me excited about work.
awesome awesome awesome.
-d.
new job
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, work
so, yeah….
i’ve finished up the fourth day of my new job.
its kinda weird to be busy.
and kind of exciting.
more to be posted sometime when Im not about to fall asleep.
-d.
the end is nigh.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, work
tomorrow is the end of my current tenure at this job.
i’ve been here for a long time (about 26.6% of my life right now…), so it’s kind of bittersweet.
good people will be missed.
new and different things starting soon.
werd.
-d.
sleep, or lack thereof.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general, nerdly
Couldn’t sleep last night… shocking, I know.
Rah tried to help with the following
“Try to think of 100 colors.”
it helped for about 3 seconds while I wrote this in my head:
public string[] ListColors(int numColors)
{
ArrayList colorList = new ArrayList();
for (int curColor = 0; curColor < numColors; curColor++)
{
string newColor = Convert.ToString(curColor, 16);
newColor = FormatHexColor(newColor);
colorList.Add(newColor);
}
return (string[])colorList.ToArray(typeof(string));
}
private string FormatHexColor(string newColor)
{
string retStr = "#";
int leadLength = 6-newColor.Length;
for (int a = 0; a < leadLength; a++)
{
retStr += "0";
}
retStr += newColor;
return retStr;
}
yeah, I’m kinda lame..
caved.
Posted by admin | Filed under general, welcome
i caved in.
i has a blog.
more to come.
blarg.
-d.