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Scan Mode for iTunes Script

So I was hacking on some Android stuff this weekend and I was immediately distracted by constantly having to flip the song on iTunes party mix DJ bullshit marketing name for shuffle mode. What I wanted was the equivalent of seek mode on car stereos. Where you basically press a button and every 10 seconds, [...]

What I Learned Today: Ack and Ephemerides

Been so busy there’s barely been any time to think about blogging. Today’s edition of What I Learned Today covers two totally separate topics. The first is: Ack Ack you say?! Yes. ack. Ack is a command line utility that searches through files for patterns of text. It’s like grep except…it’s more friendly, has some [...]

Why Git Rocks

I’ve been a longtime subversion user and before that Visual SourceSafe (ew gross), but at the new jobby job, it’s all git all the time. Being very used to the pretty awesome TortoiseSVN and ZigVersion gui clients for svn, I’ve been a bit hesitant to really dive into git, not really knowing what to expect [...]

Changing My Name

Zac([kh]|hary)$ As Afshin says, it’s pronounced “Zack Dollar”.

Python String Interpolation

AKA string formatting, AKA Putting values of variables into strings, AKA that thing you do with the funny symbols to get the values of variables inside strings. At the most basic level, most programmers find that at some point they need to insert the values of a whole bunch of variables into a string. The [...]

JavaScript, the Good Parts

This guy is so great. First JSON message failed because of JavaScript limitation on not allowing reserved keywords as name part of object literals.

Software: You’re Doing It Wrong

Here’s the interface for managing users in a version of postNuke that we are running on one of our websites: 40,000+ items in a dropdown box FTW! The HTML for this weighs in at around 2MB by itself. I hope this is fixed in a more recent version.

Reporting Services Epic Fail

Microsoft gives the big up yours to people trying to use Visual Studio 2008 for creating Reporting Server projects on SQL Server/Reporting Service 2005. This bit one of my developers in the ass today. I firmly believe that Microsoft’s heyday will be remembered from a end user perspective as Windows XP SP2, and from the [...]

Google Reader Shortcuts

These stats on Google Reader’s keyboard shortcuts are pretty interesting but what would really be great is a way to reliably open up the original item in a new tab. The ‘v’ shortcut seems to act differently depending on the item and I can never quite figure out why this happens. Often times the original [...]

Code on the Road: Navigating The Minefield that is Visual Source Safe

Code on the Road: Navigating The Minefield that is Visual Source Safe: “comment” Dudes, it was time to move to Subversion two years ago. Get going!

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