links for 2008-04-02
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Easy Rails install for OS X 10.4 Tiger
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Useful scripts to help debugging Perl code with BBEdit or TextWrangler
WordPress Upgrade
This evening I upgraded WordPress to version 2.5. All seems good so far, but please let me know if you spot any oddities.
links for 2008-03-29
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I was thinking about this just yesterday: how do I keep my web-based calendar synchronised with iCal. This looks like it could fit the bill.
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A good starting point for learning about the good practice of unit testing your code
links for 2008-03-12
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Useful guide to setting up your Mac as an NFS client: useful for working with UNIX development boxes.
links for 2008-03-11
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A new service that e-mails you your flickr photos from one year ago: nice for reminiscing!
links for 2008-02-20
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Haven’t had a chance to check this yet, but could well be a nice alternative to VirtualPC or Parallels
Things I Hate About Microsoft Word, Part I
If you click on a URL pointing to a PDF document in a Word document, a progress bar appears at the bottom of the application. It says “Word is preparing to load this document:”. The bar then takes a few seconds to fill up, during which you are thinking “okay, so Word is going to load the PDF inside an actual document, right?”. No. Because after the progress meter is completed, up pops the PDF document in your browser.
What on earth is happening in between the time you click a link and when the browser opens? What is Word actually doing that requires a progress bar?