In Windows XP, Microsoft released PowerToys with a DOSHERE tool that allowed you to open a command prompt in the current window you had open.
In Windows 7, you can hold down the shift key while right clicking a folder to get the same functionality… Cool!
Thanks to windows7hacker for the tip!
Microsoft has a plug-in for Visual Studio that adds a lot of nice little features that I never realized I needed… like triple clicking to select a whole line.
I was introduced to Cyclomatic Complexity at Eric Rimbley’s course at Construx; I was facinated with the topic and found a tool that works with Visual Studio 2010 that gathers this metric: http://www.blunck.info/ccm.html
For the longest time, the only file manager I used on the Mac was the Finder.
I was fine with that and I never thought of needing another program.
My co-worker though uses a program named PathFinder by CocoaTech. After seeing it in action, I thought it would be a great tool for organizing my project files and it does make finding files faster and easier.
So, when I started doing more PC work for my current project, I wanted something similar to PathFinder cause the Windows Explorer is only so-so.
Well, the closest I got to PathFinder was a program called xplorer2 by zabkat.com. It’s actually very useful, and my current file organizer on my workstation.
Although it is very helpful, I wouldn’t say that it’s complete: it’s missing a few features that I like in PathFinder, like right-clicking on a file and being able to copy the full path. However, for everything else, it’s better than the Windows Explorer.
For some strange unknown reason, my iPad was not showing up under the devices section of iTunes after I upgraded to iOS 5.
After much Google’ing, the only information I found helpful had me delete iTunes and reinstall it… which actually worked: How to remove and reinstall the Apple Mobile Device Service on Mac OS X 10.6.8 or Earlier
It saddens me to read about the passing of Steve Jobs, who had been battling cancer since 2004.
Last night, Steve Jobs passed away, leaving a legacy that has affected so many people in a positive way.
Steve Jobs is more than the products he saw delivered during his helm at Apple, NeXT or Pixar. He is the man who kept his ideals close to him and would not compromise his vision for anything less than perfection.
He is an inspiration to so many of us in the same field, reminding us that we should be happy with what we do, being able to look ourselves in the mirror and know that we will live today as if it were our last.
With the words he spoke at the commencement speech in 2005, at Stanford University, he reminded me to keep my core ideals close. To live true to myself.
Importantly, this reminded me that I should stay the path towards programming Zen.
Steve, thank you for your time on this earth… for making a difference to many people.
You will be so dearly missed.
I found this site by accident, sporting the stylish Visual C++ 6 logo: http://www.bogotobogo.com/cplusplus/cpptut.php
It is pretty funny to read the tutorial on multithreading, given how new it was back then to a lot of developers and today, it’s becoming the new norm: http://www.bogotobogo.com/cplusplus/multithreaded.php
On the Mac OS, if you need to know what files are open and by what application and on what disk, you can use the lsof command in Terminal.
Pair that command with grep and you can isolate things like this:
lsof | grep "Snow Leopard" |
This will show you what files are open that have “Snow Leopard” in the name.
This is a very funny video on how a video game should not be implemented:
A while ago I blogged about WebGL.
There are some really cool implementations of this technology at chromeexperiments.com, with a really cool demo of a water simulation and a cute video game.
Thanks to altdevblogaday.com for blogging about this!
