Monthly Archives: December 2006

Cross platform tooling – the best of two worlds

By emil | Published: December 31, 2006
I have recently been working on a project where the target operating system is Windows XP. Since I do not have a Windows XP installation, I started writing code on Linux and since it worked fine in the beginning, I continued doing so throughout the development phase of the project. At a later stage when [...]
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Code Prettifier

By emil | Published: December 31, 2006
I have now completed a web based syntax highlighter that can prettify any code that is already available on the net (like via WebCVS/SVN, or just plain uploaded files). It has support for Java, Python, C++ and Ruby among others. To use it, simply enter a URL to some code you want to be highlighted [...]
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Pretty code

By emil | Published: December 30, 2006
Something I have wanted for a long time is an efficient way of highlighting syntax for an arbitrary file. Like uploading a file to some server and then execute a query like this: http://myserver.com/scripts/highlight? url=http://www.someserver.com/MyClass.java& language=java& showlines=false And it would generate a clean HTML-output with the code highlighted and pretty. Since I have not found [...]
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WoW = World of Waiting

By emil | Published: December 29, 2006
I recently started playing World Of Warcraft more seriously (my last attempt ended at level 2 :-) ). Now I’m considering leaving it because the time to log in increases for each day. Between 17:00 – 23:00 it is almost always 30 – 40 min of waiting before one can select character. I’d better code [...]
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Hot fix in Aperture

By emil | Published: December 28, 2006
Before I ordered Aperture I was researching about how it handled hot/dead/stuck pixels. My DSLR has developed a few nasty ones during the last year. During my research I came across this article “Apple Aperture Hot Pixel Hell” that states that Aperture will be useless to most photographers until this issue is resolved. I agree that [...]
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Testing MarsEdit

By emil | Published: December 28, 2006
This is just a test of the software MarsEdit. I have searched for a blog posting app for Mac OS X for a while now and this one seems to be a keeper …
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