I was told yesterday afternoon that I had been nominated to become a dojo committer! I was really excited. It was something that I'd been interested in possibly doing, but didn't really think that it would happen as quick as it did.
The guys in the dojo community are very easy to work with and helpful. I'm very excited to be a part of this project.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Dojo 1.1.0
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Cool OSX (Leopard?) Shortcut
OK - so I'm waiting for people to yell at me saying that this is completely old news, but I found a really cool (and useful) shortcut recently. Completely by accident.
Holding down the Apple key while clicking on an application in the Dock will reveal that application in the Finder. This is really useful - and guess what? It even works in spotlight! The only reason that I was keeping quicksilver around was so that I could quickly "reveal" items in the finder, but now, all that's needed is to activate spotlight, type in the item you want, and hold the apple key when pressing enter on the item.
I think it's cool, at least...that's all that matters, right?
Holding down the Apple key while clicking on an application in the Dock will reveal that application in the Finder. This is really useful - and guess what? It even works in spotlight! The only reason that I was keeping quicksilver around was so that I could quickly "reveal" items in the finder, but now, all that's needed is to activate spotlight, type in the item you want, and hold the apple key when pressing enter on the item.
I think it's cool, at least...that's all that matters, right?
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Microsoft/Yahoo
I was reading an article at Roughly Drafted today (http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/02/07/why-does-microsoft-really-want-yahoo/) - and one thing totally hit me that I hadn't thought about before. If Microsoft is actually successful in their bid to buy Yahoo!, then what *is* actually going to happen with all their duplicate services? Do we get Hotmail or Yahoo! mail? Who's search backend will actually be used to power both sites? Will they continue to maintain differently branded portals?
It seems to me like it's a horrible waste of resources to keep both systems going separately - however, at the same time, it would be a waste to discard the brand positioning of either company.
It seems to me like it's a horrible waste of resources to keep both systems going separately - however, at the same time, it would be a waste to discard the brand positioning of either company.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Dojo Book Dashboard Widget (for Mac OSX)
I have been wanting a dashboard widget that indexes the pages for the Dojo Book so that I can quickly access items without needing to pull up the pages...well, I finally caved and wrote one myself. You can get it from http://www.toonetown.com/projects/downloads/DojoBook.zip
This was thrown together, quite literally, in about an hour - using Dashcode. I even used a custom-built version of dojo to generate the tree widget in the dashboard widget. I was pretty impressed with how easily it all came together - the biggest pain was getting the list of links in to the tree.
Now, the hard part will be keeping it up to date.
Let me know if you find this useful - and if you have any suggestions for improving on it.
This was thrown together, quite literally, in about an hour - using Dashcode. I even used a custom-built version of dojo to generate the tree widget in the dashboard widget. I was pretty impressed with how easily it all came together - the biggest pain was getting the list of links in to the tree.
Now, the hard part will be keeping it up to date.
Let me know if you find this useful - and if you have any suggestions for improving on it.
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