I’m a long-time fan of Eric Meyer’s S5 browser-based presentation system. (In fact, I’ve been working on a TextMate bundle for it. Though the code to produce an individual slide is very simple, it still can be a bit fussy when you’re producing a lot of them.)
Robert Nyman’s new AJAX-S system is unabashedly inspired by S5, but places slide content in a separate XML file that then gets rendered into HTML by Javascript.
Just a quick followup on the Sony malware situation: they’ve now been spanked by both Microsoft and the Department of Homeland Security. I feel the warm glow of righteousness.
One of the first things that won me over to OS X was the near-instantaneousness with which you could wake a machine up from sleep. For a longtime PowerBook user who had always found Sleep to be a killer feature – even back when waking up took 30 seconds or more – this was a great bonus.
Sleep is known as “Standby” in the Windows world, but for some reason a lot of people prefer “Hibernate,” perhaps because it predates Standby or perhaps because it’s safer – all data is saved to disk, so you’re covered even if you completely lose power.
Warning: this is a long post about… a text editor.
I’m very late to the TextMate party. Like many other people, I heard the buzz when it came out last fall, checked it out, and went away interested but unimpressed.
At the time I knew that BBEdit’s long stint as my primary text editor was coming to a close. For its replacement I wanted an app that felt cleaner; was Cocoa, not Carbon; didn’t have a dozen years of accumulated cruft in the menus; and didn’t have language-specific features that felt tacked-on. For shell tasks I continued to use and enjoy Emacs, but I was pining for a great native editor on the desktop.
My first little bit of TextMate language grammar hacking: PHP.tmbundle 2.0.1, which has two small enhancements over the stock 2.0:
<<<HTML … HTML; heredoc delimiters will be colorized as HTMLEnjoy! Feedback is welcome. Thanks to Textmate author Allan Odgaard for helpful answers to my newbie questions on the TextMate mailing list.
ritesh commented on Thu Nov 10 13:03:27 2005:
this is good.
I’m seeing lots of links to this CNN story about the CIA learning to use publicly accessible information sources. I have one comment, not about the news, but about the language:
Mary Margaret Graham, an aide to Negroponte, told reporters better use of open source information should lead to more effective use of clandestine intelligence gathering as well.
(Emphasis mine.)
The term “open source” is being used here – not just by the reporter but, as far as I can tell from the context of the article, by the Federal government – as a synonym for “publicly accessible.” Not the same thing, of course.
I’m working up to a longer post about my recent conversion to TextMate, which appears to be total. For the moment, though, just a quick note about a couple things I’ve added to the TextMate wiki: a rough guide to bug reporting (adapted from a mailing list reply from TextMate author Allan Odgaard), and a recipe for doing lookups in 10.4’s built-in dictionary (based on code from John Gruber).