Archive for August, 2006

Playing with Deepest Sender

I ran across Deepest Sender, a firefox extension used for posting to a blog, today and thought I’d give it a shot. It supports a small, but reasonable set of blog apps (Wordpress, LJ, … two or three others that escape me at the moment, and I can’t find the list right now..) […]


Home is where .emacs is…

I finally found a way to quickly navigate to my home directory in windows today. Being a long-time (well, 8-10 years) Linux user, when I started working in windows 40 hours a week, I had to adapt a bit, but most of that adaptation meant installing cygwin utilities, bblean, and emacs. Unfortunately, it’s […]


foreach(What?)

I’ve been adapting to Java 1.5 and c# (and c#, with .NET 2.0), all of which feature a new construct: the foreach loop. The syntax is relatively similar to the construct in numerous other languages, such as perl’s:

foreach $var (@list){ # … }

In c# (or java, the syntax is the same), to […]