http://blog.bogojoker.com 'My humble abode'.sub(/ab/,'c') Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:14:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I requested a feature to make the few edit summary suggestions clickable. I, like many developers, don't normally let my keys leave the keyboard. However, this was one case where I felt making those suggestions of "corrected spelling" and "fixed grammar" should automatically be inserted. Well the suggestion was ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/09/stack-overflow-edit-summary-quicklinks/ I ferociously make use of Spaces and Exposé. To utilize them I use QuickSilver, Cmd+Tab, the Dock, special Mouse Buttons, but most of all I use the Hot Corners! Occasionally, when I wake my Mac Book Pro these features won't work. No reason given, just when I ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/08/spaces-expose-hot-corners-dashboard-broken/ This took me far too long to do, but its because no one explained it correctly to me. I'm frustrated enough that I'm not going to go back to those other websites and see if I just overlooked something. Instead I'm going to put it right here. You don't ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/07/command-line-svnignore-a-file/ That right there is the only tag cloud that I have ever found interesting. The cool part is that you can generate those tag clouds and with a lot more jazz at this really great service called Wordle. How I Did It For those interested on how I got all the ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/06/my-blog-is/ I was asked today to remove the first 6 characters from every line in a document. It was known that each line contained at least 6 characters. For me, that means a find a replace. Here is how I did it (in a number of different ways). ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/06/sotd-remove-the-first-n-characters-from-a-line/ You've seen it before, but you may not know what it means. Wikipedia describes CDATA as meaning "Character Data" which makes sense. w3school goes one step further and points out that this text should not be parsed by the XML Parser. The general idea is when you ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/06/why-cdata-matters-in-xml/ Yah, this week is all about solving problems. I run into a lot of them, but it gives me something to blog about. But hey, if I can spend 20 minutes writing down a solution to a couple hour problem that I had, then I could save you ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/06/installing-ruby-187-on-mac-os-x-1053/ I seem to have had some really bad luck doing what I thought would be very simple. I finally arrived at a solution that I really don't feel is optimal, but it works and I'll monitor it for a while and hope that it continues working. (You'll know ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/06/a-blogdomaincom-that-works/ I ran into an interesting problem today. I had an array of objects that I wanted sorted on a certain property. My obvious thought didn't work! (Update: I got a comment below from Peter Michaux who points out a nicer solution, it is included here:) // Array of Objects var ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/06/javascript-sort-an-array-of-objects/ This one was news to me but it just made my day (and not a minute too late)!. I used to have so much trouble copying and pasting code from the Firebug (now Firefox 3 compatible) console. The paste used to have no formatting or indention and sometimes ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/06/firebug-feature-open-with-editor/ In this blog post I'm going to give praise to Brian Ameriage, the developer of the Flow FTP Program available for Mac OS X Leopard. I'll quickly go through some of the ways that Brian has impressed me over the short time I have known him over the web. 1Flow I ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/06/brian-amerige-some-praise-to-the-developer-of-flow/ I have had the idea to write this article for a long time. But this morning I came across Allan Branch's blog post titled "It isn't always about you..." containing the following message: I read many blogs and follow or have followed a number of people on twitter. I think ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/06/give-some-appreciation/ I have come across a number of programmers who don't know what dotfiles are. Thats a shame. Every programmer should know common dotfiles and actively seek to add aliases, functions, and other tidbits to increase their productivity and make the shell more usable. I recently went on ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/06/dot-files-for-your-shell-and-even-ruby/ I've never been a "Txter." I'd much rather call my friends or have them call me. Its a pain to have to search for this small letters, push keys 1-4 times, search for shift, etc. Its a pain ever time I have to text. Hopefully this ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/06/ruby-can-help-you-txt/ With all of my recent interest in Ruby I have been overwhelmed by the number of really awesome rubygems. I have talked about some and I will talk about even more in the future but I felt it would be important to learn how to make my own ruby ... http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/05/building-a-ruby-gem/