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January 30th, 2007

Best Javascript IRC Chat Room

Here’s the biggest one, the folks seem helpful:
Javascript IRC Chat on Freenode


Or you can find a lot more options with this search.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Other, Web Services, Searching Better at 2:35 PM MST

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January 27th, 2007

Quick Searches and Answers

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but you may still find them useful.

Basics of Web Design from Scratch
The best website I’ve found so far explaining the fundamentals of graphic design for websites.

Google Calendar Quick Add Firefox Extension
Quickly add new appointments to Google Calendar? I haven’t tried it yet.

Google Calendar - Add Event with just URL
I’d like to use this information to create a bookmarklet that will add whatever page I’m viewing as an event in Google Calendar. Can I make a form with date pikcers in Javascript, or should I just switch to writing a FF extension at this point?

Google Help Center: How do I create an event via SMS?
Did you know Google Calendar could do this? If I ever get a QWERTY keyboarded cellphone I’ll take it up on this. Has anyone tried this yet?

Google Calendar Understands More Natural Langauge than You’d Think
A few booksmarks ago I said I needed a complicated javascript form for my proposed quick add bookmarklet, forget about it! This would be a fun feature for me to program someday, this bit of natural language understanding.

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) in Python
You’ll never see Particle Swarm Optimization explained this well again. Go learn!

Ionic’s ISAPI Rewrite Filter for IIS
Is this a good free product for getting Apache’s mod_rewrite functionality in IIS?

Overview of Anti-Spam tools for Wordpress
Looks comprehensive. Lots of options. Askimet isn’t working for me anymore.

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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Uncategorized at 4:30 AM MST

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January 23rd, 2007

Quick Searches and Answers

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but you may still find them useful.

GNU Source-highlight - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Another syntax highlighter for your website, no numbered lines.

Cheetah Templating Quickstart tutorial
Here’s the heart of how to use Cheetah, a Python HTML templating system. I was browsing through their docs for 10 minutes until I found this page.

GoldMine Release Notes - All the Versions
This page should list all of the GoldMine release notes. I don’t think it makes you log in but who knows with GoldMine!

web.py | Google Groups
Running web.py under IIS. Will it really be this easy?

Pause Bash Script so I can Review Output - Ubuntu
If using Gnome Terminal. open up a new terminal window. Go to the “Edit” menu and click “Current Profile”. Click on the “Title and Command” tab. In there, there is a setting called “When command exits”. Change it to “hold the terminal open”.

what’s your preferred subversion client? svn - Ubuntu Forums
This thread may help you track down a good GUI SVN client for Ubuntu. Golly, I miss the tortoise SVN from Windows.

programs/kdesvn - AlwinsWorld
I’m going to reccomend kdesvn as the best GUI SVN client for Ubuntu. It seems to work even in Gnome. I also installed kompare and now the diffs are gorgeous!

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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Uncategorized at 4:30 AM MST

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January 17th, 2007

Quick Searches and Answers

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but you may still find them useful.

dp.SyntaxHighlighter - free JavaScript syntax highlighting
This looks like a great way to get super sophisticated code highlighting and formatting in your blog. Although I may have an even better Python specific solution in a few months …

When to use drag & drop (some informal research results)
The answer: Only when the spatial relationship between objects is important. e.g., having the user position or sort a list. Users found it inefficient to drag things onto a “stage” instead of just clicking them.

Finally the RSS authentication question is addressed
I’ve been wondering for a long time how to offer RSS for users of a password protected app. There are no good answers here but at least people are talking about it.

MediaWiki Software Does Have Fine-Grained Access Control!
Prevent anonymous editing (even reading!), require email confirmations, and more for your own MediaWiki installation.

Hacking TiVo: 23 Tips to Turbocharge Your DVR | Satellite Sweeper
Can Tivo really be made to do all these things? Well it certainly can’t be any harder than setting up MythTV :-(

Openoffice.org Label Templates for Ooo Writer free
How to print shipping labels in Open Office. For your Avery 5160/8160 you’ll want the first file download.

Create a Macintosh Aqua Sphere using Photoshop - Tutorial
How to create a shiny/glossy sphere.

Web 2.0 Design Kit | Photoshop Lab
How to make reflections in Photoshop.

The Logos of Web 2.0
Ever wondered what font to use in your new web 2.0 logo? Or do you just want to see a veritible museum of web 2.0 logos?

Miles’ Blog ? The Web 2.0 Secret Weapon
What colors to use on a web 2.0 website.

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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Uncategorized at 4:30 AM MST

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January 14th, 2007

Google Reader doesn’t Refresh When You Tell it to

I’ve been noticing for a while that Google Reader is very delayed in showing me updates to feeds. I always figured it was my fault somehow, perhaps the specific feeds I was subscribed to?

But this thread and many others like it has everyone complaining of this problem. The best I can discern is that Google Readers refreshes feeds only on its own schedule (possibly as little as once every three hours!) and hitting the refresh button above the feed does nothing.

It was pointed out that this could be a bandwidth issue as in a lot of webmasters would get unhappy if (millions?) of Google Reader users were always hitting refresh and actually having Google re-access the feed. But I don’t want to hear excuses, I want an RSS reader that works! Timely updates are the killer app of RSS readers, get it fixed!

Can anyone reccomend a better web based RSS reader?

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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Other, Web Services at 3:21 PM MST

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