TextMate Hallowe'en Easter Egg- October 31, 2006 After saying yes to the TextMate update dialog box, the icon changed into a scary jack-o-lantern (seen left) and a window with a spider web. I don't use text editors that much (most of my scripting and text editing happens in a console window), but for notes and modifying existing plain text, it was worth the purchase price. I also love the screencasts, which clue me into some features that make repetitive tasks easier, the most useful so far being the screencast introducing how to use...http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/10/30/textmate-halloween Notes on "Documentation in the Open Source World" at the Free Software and Open Source Symposium- October 27, 2006 My worries about Eric Shepherd's presentation being too focussed on developer documentation were both correct and unfounded. Correct because he only talked about developer documentation for the Mozilla Corporation. Unfounded because everything he talked about applied directly to end-user documentation writing. Some notes here, then a paraphrase of my comment-slash-question at the end. He broke the talk into sections: planning and organizing the five C's of documentation creating...http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/10/27/open-source-world Notes on "Documentation: A Key to Openness" at the Free and Open Source Symposium- October 27, 2006 At the Free and Open Source Software Symposium at Seneca College at York University (not the Markham campus, to my embarrasment), I came in late to the documentation and openness presentation and took some brief notes. Presenter Chris Tyler recommended breaking documentation tasks into beats, which I interpreted to mean have leadersmanagerseditors assign documentation tasks, push them just hard enough to write quality and up-to-date documentation, and not assume that "the community" will...http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/10/27/openness Free and Open Source Documentation- October 26, 2006 Those following my Upcoming.org stream know I'm currently in Toronto (after a vacation in Iceland!). I'm attending Day 2 of the Free and Open Source Symposium, with specific interest in Chris Tyler's presentation on documentation and openness and Eric Shepherd's presentation on documentation in the open source world presentation. Documentation in open source is a bit of a long-standing issue, since many open source tools have the impression that they were built for developers. At Bryght,...http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/10/26/fsoss-documentation (Re-)Documenting My World With Drupal and the Nokia N95- October 3, 2006 After I tell two people an idea, it probably makes sense to publish it somewhere so that someone can go out and implement it. Here are the ingredients: a site powered by Drupal 4.7 Location module for Drupal GeoRSS module for Drupal Aggregator2 module, though its successors are currently in heavy development A Nokia N95. Or any mobile device that combines GPRS, GPS, and a camera and a phone. The phone part is completely unnecessary, but that conveniently limits us to the Nokia...http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/10/03/re-documenting Canucks on HNIC- October 3, 2006 The website for the CBC, Canada's government-funded TV network that takes ad revenue and has as one of its most popular shows an American cartoon, has a list of all the games that they will show as part of Hockey Night in Canada. HNIC is, historically, all of Saturday night during the fall and winter as well as spring during the playoffs, though sometimesespecially the playoffsthose days are weekdays andor Sundays. The listing they show isn't very useful, I found, since they show the times in.http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/10/02/canucks-hnic Les problmes se font jour- October 1, 2006 Karl: “Une communaut jeune est relativement stable, homogne, pleine d'enthousiasme. Tous ces lments permettent son succs. Ceci est valable pour pratiquement toutes les communauts. Et puis lorsque la communaut s'largit en nombre de participants, lorsque la technologie est utilise large chelle, les problmes se font jour. Ils sont souvent de mme nature que ceux que l'on pensait rsoudre.”http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/10/01/problemes |