detour1999 » nerdly http://detour1999.com i r nerd. Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 the new version of PDT is awesome. http://detour1999.com/2009/01/02/the-new-version-of-pdt-is-awesome/ http://detour1999.com/2009/01/02/the-new-version-of-pdt-is-awesome/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:35:51 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/?p=44 PDT Project.

One thing that I should remember to do (in addition to my tech-i-use page) is get the RSS feed for releases… then I wouldn’t have been three days late to the PDT 2.0 party.

I’ve moved one of my dev machines to PDT 2.0 (eclipse 3.4) and so far it’s pretty cool (it fixed my issue that I had been having with PDT 1.0 (eclipse 3.1[?]).

I’ll report back when I’ve used it a little more, but my first impression is that it is as good as the old one, and Eclipse loads in almost no time, relative to how it used to be.

Also, I’m using the “press-this” tool for wordpress, it’s pretty nice.

excellent.

-d.

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I must say, I am incredibly impressed. This is an amazing administrative section that really allows me as a user to have less of a barrier to blogging.
Hopefully, that means that I will do it more…

Also, I now realize that I had some drafts saved from a while back. Ha! Who knew? I’ll try to finish up those and post them asap.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/12/28/new-wordpress/feed/ 0 being without internet http://detour1999.com/2008/12/25/being-without-internet/ http://detour1999.com/2008/12/25/being-without-internet/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:17:07 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/?p=37 is a pain in the ass.

I am on vacation for the first time in ages, and for the first time in longer than I can remember I have been mostly without internet.

So, I had to do something about that.

Using this sweet app, these directions and FoxyProxy I am now writing this on my laptop on the blazingly fast 3g connection of my G1 (~400K down/~150K up)

(in reality, all internet feels slow to me now that I am used to the 100MB fiber @ work. However, I still use the shared 56k line at my parents when I’m there, and I’m happy to know that I’m significantly faster than that…)

so, happy xmas to me, I’ll be able to code and waste time on the internet on the train this weekend.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/12/25/being-without-internet/feed/ 1 Phones and such. http://detour1999.com/2008/09/26/phones-and-such/ http://detour1999.com/2008/09/26/phones-and-such/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:33:09 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/2008/09/26/phones-and-such/ I got an iPhone a while back, and I must admit that it is one of the nicest examples of consumer electronics I have ever used.
I’m writing this post on it right now. I never would have dreamed of writing a blog post on my old mda (even with its full qwerty keyboard…) it was just too slow and cumbersome.
All that being said, I went ahead and preprdered a G1 android phone the other day. I doubt that it will replace the iPhone. But it will be incredibly nice to compare them side by side. (and, admittedly, I’m a he’ll of a lot better at java than I am at objective C, so that will be fun, too.)
I look forward to writing more on the subject, once I get the G1 in my hands.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/09/26/phones-and-such/feed/ 0 Firefox 3: thoughts and impressions. http://detour1999.com/2008/06/17/firefox-3-thoughts-and-impressions/ http://detour1999.com/2008/06/17/firefox-3-thoughts-and-impressions/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:06:40 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/?p=25 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…

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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.

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I haven’t touched gChart in months.

Realistically, I’m not going to…  I’m just way to swamped at work.

If someone wants to take over, lmk.  I’ll gladly add you to the project.

Otherwise…  who knows.

-d.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/05/09/gchartphp-sometimes-life-gets-the-best-of-you/feed/ 4 Sometimes technology is too much for me. http://detour1999.com/2008/02/21/sometimes-technology-is-too-much-for-me/ http://detour1999.com/2008/02/21/sometimes-technology-is-too-much-for-me/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:53:50 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/2008/02/21/sometimes-technology-is-too-much-for-me/ 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.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/02/21/sometimes-technology-is-too-much-for-me/feed/ 1 google product consintency. http://detour1999.com/2008/02/12/google-product-consintency/ http://detour1999.com/2008/02/12/google-product-consintency/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:23:19 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/2008/02/12/google-product-consintency/ 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.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/02/12/google-product-consintency/feed/ 0 gChartPhp – progress of a sort. http://detour1999.com/2008/01/06/gchartphp-progress-of-a-sort/ http://detour1999.com/2008/01/06/gchartphp-progress-of-a-sort/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:15:53 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/2008/01/06/gchartphp-progress-of-a-sort/ Real quick:
I had less time than I wanted to to work on gChartPhp this weekend.
In that time I fixed a couple bugs (bar chart bar width calculation for one…) and got x-axis labels working.

I plan to get y-axis labelling working asap. The plan is to allow you to put labels for the y-axis, or just specify how many y-axis labels to have and let it calculate what those are.

That will have to wait until tomorrow.

Also:
Dhaval Patel did a bunch of work to version 2 of the code and got a lot more working. I have been stupidly busy and haven’t had a chance to even look at it, but I will probably put that code up (fully credited, of course) on google code when I commit the axis labelling stuff tomorrow.

So, not as much progress as I was hoping, but progress nonetheless.

-d.

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