Monthly Archives: January 2005

Edit PHP with SciTE

If you edit PHP using SciTE, you should get more productive with it! You can press F5 to run the current program and get output to a console. Most web developers do not associate the console with making web pages, but there are gains in your development speed. No webserver is involved when running the PHP executable [...]
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Fastaval 2005: Rpg convention event of the year

OK, now Peter has set up the website. It is official. Fastaval.dk, the year’s finest roleplaying game convention. All categories. “Avantgarde cafeen” will rock. You can read more about it in plain English, now that I have set up a page of translated information on the Vi Åker Jeep wiki.
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More stuff done with Ruby: Ta-da List

OK, here is web usability gods 37Signals‘ won fluff on their very usable web app for making todo lists online: To Do with Ta-da List: Simple sharable to-do lists. To-do list, todo list, task manager, task list, todo task, easy list, simple todo, free todo list manager. What blew me away is that they made a [...]
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AppleMatters pulls an iPod Shuffle apart

See the carnage for yourself. It is a little scary: the whole added-value Appleness of the unit it *ripped* off. With just bare, dry commentary underneath it.
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Saved by GNU tools

GnuWin32 Packages is the official list of GNU tools for the win32 platform. Some of these tools are pure magic. diff rules, and I felt all broken when my Cygwin install broke, because all my settings in diff were perfect there. Now I don’t even have to open the bash commandline, the tools are on [...]
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Unit test for JS: JSUnit

JSUnit : > JsUnit is a Unit Testing framework for client-side (in-browser) JavaScript. It is essentially a port of JUnit to JavaScript. I talked about another, simpler testing framework, ECMAUnit the other day, but I noted that the above is the one Olav is using. Seems more featureful, and you can run some sort of server [...]
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Roleplaying scenario writing event: Amok i maj!

The scenario writing event Amok i maj is the brain-child of Danish role-playing game superstar Thomas Munkholt. You have three weeks to write a scenario! Do it! Go amok! The inspiration was NaNoWriMo, an annual event.
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Theory of translations

I have begun reading Introducing Translation Studies, by Jeremy Munday, as I am trying my hand at commercial translation. _Dolmetscher_ is the slightly derogatory term for commercial translators. It was coined by 19th century theologian Schleiermacher, who still is a defining influence on translation theories. (Most things that folks in T Studies are doing nowadays [...]
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“Number One With A Bullet”, explained

I was snooping around for the hidden meaning of the term “number one with a bullet”. Its meaning could not only be the movie with the same name. And, of course there was more to the story. The explanation held an amazing one-liner: > Originally posted by KTasha: > the first thing to do is ask him to [...]
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Free fonts for coding

Get them at Proggy Fonts.
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