Archive for July, 2007

• 07.17.07 HTML Indexing Gets Better posted in Web Design

  I started discovering more and more mistakes in the original HTML indexing bundle. I ended up rewriting a lot of it and adding a lot of new functionality. It now recognizes a plethora of different formats for anchor tags, including empty anchors before headers, inside of headers, anchors with link text, etc. And there’s a new auto-indexing command that creates a hierarchical index. There’s even one that scans for headers and adds the anchor tags FOR you. It can’t get much easier than that. Let me know if it works. The docs from the bundle follow, download link at the end…

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• 07.16.07 My weekend with XSLT posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I just spent a very long weekend teaching myself XSL. I don’t mean long as in more than two days, but long in that I didn’t sleep and played with this stuff for hours straight. Days straight, actually. Too long. What I’m really trying to figure out is how to get this to apply to my current design. I can now fully see the power (and limitations) of xml and XSLT, but I don’t have a lot of applications that require such a technology. So here’s what I put together…

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• 07.13.07 HTML Indexing Bundle posted in Web Design

  The HTML Indexing commands have evolved into a full bundle for TextMate. For those of you who told me the original commands saved you some time on your last project, this should make the next one a breeze. The shot on the left shows a quick preview of the new auto-index with summaries command, which scans for all anchors and pulls the first 10 words following them to create an index using a definition list with even/odd classnames on the lines for styling. Download is at the end of the post. Here’s a rundown from the included help file…

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• 07.13.07 News from CulturedCode posted in Web Design

  It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from them, but CulturedCode has released a new version of XyleScope and has plans to release a GTD-based ToDo manager called “Things”…

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• 07.11.07 Quick HTML Anchors in TextMate posted in Web Design

  I had to make a couple of long indexes today, so after a couple of tries and some input from the TextMate list, I came up with a pair of commands for creating named HTML anchors in TextMate…

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• 07.07.07 Path Finder Update posted in Geekery

  Path Finder has been updated to 4.7.1 with a bunch of fixes and features. First of all, Subversion support is no longer experimental, but considered stable. I’ve been using it since the last release with good luck and enjoy having it built into my GUI file manager. The move-to-trash delay has been significantly decreased, and the “Open With” menu is finally sorted by application name. For a full list of changes, see the Path Finder changelog.

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• 07.05.07 Help Make Jott2iGTD Rock posted in Geekery

  Are you using Jott2iGTD? If so, let me know what you would improve. The next release is a complete rewrite with some huge leaps in functionality. The script will be transferrable to handling advanced, natural language task creation from any form of email, including SMS, webmail, other transcription services, etc. So let me know what you’d like to see!

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• 07.05.07 FlyGestures is Free posted in Geekery

  If you, like me, do occasional laptop work without the aid of your 12 button mouse, head over and grab FlyGestures, some nifty OS X software which just became freeware. You can set up simple mouse gestures to do just about anything you’d like…

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• 07.04.07 Projects In The Works posted in Geekery

  I’m kind of taking the 4th off and spending some time away from the radiation production factories that are my offices, but here’s an update on the projects that are underway…

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• 07.02.07 Jott2iGTD Context Keyword Fix posted in Geekery

  I got reports and confirmed that Jott regularly mistakes “context” for “contact”. I didn’t want to have the script automatically replace contact because it may be an important word to use in a task description. The keyword has been changed to “do at” followed by the context name. The only caveat is that Jott will interpret this to “due at” on a regular basis, which the script compensates for, but you’ll need to make sure you say “due by” if you’re putting a due date into the task description or notes. The script does not currently handle due dates or start dates due to the complexity of translating dates and the need for an external library like chronify to make it work well. There’s another minor release on the download page.

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