Hmmm. This looks intriguing. Windows-only.
I have an old paid-for copy of InCtrl5 which I use when I want to track what changes an application makes to a windows-based system. I also use vmware images for both configuration (different versions of windows) and snapshot (quick roll-back to known state) management.
Following up on my post “Whap the Spacebar“, I realised something cool.
I used to use nn to read Usenet news. Now I use NetNewsWire, aka nnw, as my aggregator. Both programs allow me to sit back, whap the spacebar, and cycle through the pending queue of unread stuff.
nn -> nnw (NN for the _W_eb)
heh.
I can “walk around” the part of the blogosphere I am interested in a lot faster with an aggregator than I can with a mile long bookmark list.
Me too. I’m a “whap the spacebar” kind of guy, where I want to sit in front of a screen, hit the spacebar, and cycle through my waiting-to-be-read queue. Can’t do that with bookmark lists.
This is my first attempt to use the lazy web – posting a question in my blog rather than doing the research myself, and hoping someone else posts an answer in the comments.
When I was younger, I remember hearing about something on Blaupunkt radios that the user could set so the radio would switch stations (or interrupt the cassette tape) whenever a traffic report came on.
Whatever happened to that system?
My wife and I saw Spike Lee’s Inside Man this weekend. Intense without being too riveting, intelligent, well written and acted and directed. Very few plot holes big enough to drive a truck through.
Worth seeing.
A must read, in my not-so-humble opinion.
I especially like #2 – Not automating acceptance tests. Elisabeth writes:
But this is one case where the adage “if it hurts, do more of it” is especially helpful. If it’s too time consuming or painful to automate the acceptance tests, it means something needs to change to make it easier
I’ve found it painful to put together automated tests for the mozilla codebase, and I’m looking forward to doing more of that in the very near future.
(after 1.5.0.2 is most of the way released)
CNN/Fortune’s article:
Reviled by workers, demonized by designers, disowned by its very creator, it still claims the largest share of office furniture sales–$3 billion or so a year–and has outlived every “office of the future” meant to replace it. It is the Fidel Castro of office furniture.
Yesterday, I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2. Please let me know if there are any problems.
Today, when the narrator asked the audience why one character won the beauty contest, my four-year-old shouted, “Because she’s really hot.”
I thought buying organic (no-hormone) milk was supposed to prevent stuff like this . . .
In the mozilla.dev.general newsgroup, Jonathan Watt posts about “how off-putting” it can be for someone to install a nightly trunk build without putting their regular browser setup at risk.
On my Mac and my Linux test box, I’ve set up separate user accounts for testing various builds. This way I don’t risk corrupting my main profile, and I don’t have to worry about registry settings and such. On windows, I use vmware images.
What do you do to run multiple builds of mozilla apps on your systems?