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What other reason could there be that Apple’s replaced the mythical battery life claims of the G4 powerbooks with a footnote that says merely “battery life depends on configuration and use”?
I mean, it’s got to be better than the 45 minutes I get on my old ThinkPad, right?
Right?
Please?
Dear Microsoft,
If you decide that a .NET WinForms control, like, say, the CheckedListBox, doesn’t support databinding, how about blocking the damned call to DataBind()?
Sincerely,
Luke’s pants
(This is what I get for trying to do things “properly” instead of just coding a population loop in the first place.)
Technorati Tags: databinding
I knew Google could do math in the query line, like this:
…and I knew it could do currency conversion, like this:
…but I thought it was pretty damned cool that they thought to combine the two operations:
Problem: I want VP’s front page to ping the various weblog directories like Technorati and whatnot. Unfortunately, front page posts are post-dated, which means they don’t show up until the date/time passes a predetermined point. If it wasn’t for this, I could just ping the services on article entry.
What I was gonna do: I could have added a flag to each article, and either run a cron job to periodically scan for published articles that haven’t triggered a ping, or have the site code do a ping on the first read of an article. In both cases, I run a risk of over-pinging (I think I got banned from weblogs.com during an earlier incarnation of the code).
Solution: FeedBurner’s PingShot will monitor my feed for new content and automatically ping the services, with little to no effort to me (I may not even have to repoint my main feed). I like things that are little to no effort.
Signed up.
Technorati Tags: FeedBurner, Blogging
Dreamhost has this nifty feature called one click installs that let you set up a number of common web apps like WordPress, phpBB, Gallery, etc with minimal fuss - it’ll even set up a separate MySql DB for you, all from one form. It’s a great time saver, especially if you just want to experiment.
This works out great for me, since I’m starting to use WordPress as my default scratchpad. It’s not the most efficient way to do things, with a new app for each idea I have, but it works great with desktop clients like ecto.
Today’s brainstorm - I need to track my time on projects and have some kind of record of my accomplishments from day to day. I created a new WP blog just for that (password protected, natch). Now everytime I do a task, I just fire off a quick blog entry with the task in the subject and the time it took in the body.
Ecto too much work for quick jottings? There’s even a Dashboard widget! That doesn’t deal with categories though, and it’d be nice to be able to split up my tasks for easy reporting. (Though I could create a new blog per client… Naw.) We’ll see what sticks.
So there you go - quick and dirty time tracking, in less time than it took for me to write this entry about it!