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Trading Places with Indian Outsourcers

Jun 30 2008 Published by under English,Software

This is the best show I’ve seen on this topic, besides the movie Outsourced. Definitely worth watching!

Roger Spurlock (from the Supersize Me movie) explores what the the US job outsourcing experience is like on the other side.

Outsourcing has changed our planet.

This was done on the “30 Days” series on FX hosted by Morgan Spurlock. It was very entertaining and thought-provoking for the guy who went to India, the Indians themselves and, of course, those of us watching.

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Keyboard navigation for TextMate stacktraces

Jun 29 2008 Published by under Apple,English,Mac,OS X,Ruby,TextMate

Keyboard navigation for TextMate stacktraces

Put this script at the end of /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/script/webpreview.js.

document.addEventListener('keypress', function(e){
    var key = e.keyCode
    if (key != 63233 && key != 63232) return
    links = document.getElementsByTagName('a')
    for (var i = 1; i < links.length; i++)
        if (links[i].title == 'focused') break
    if (i == links.length) i = 0
    links[i].title = null
    if (key == 63233){
        if (i == (links.length - 1)) i = 1
        else i += 1
    }
    if (key == 63232){
        if (i <= 1) i = links.length - 1
        else i -= 1
    }
    links[i].title = 'focused'
    links[i].focus()
})

Incredibly useful when I am running my tests!

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Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac

Jun 25 2008 Published by under Apple,English,Mac,OS X,Software

Top Ten Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

1. ⌘ + l = focus address bar
2. ⌘ + d = bookmark current page
3. ⌘ + k = focus google search bar
4. ⌘ + f = find
5. ⌘ + g = find next
6. ⌘ + t = new tab
7. ⌘ + w = close current tab
8. ⌘ + shift + t = reopen accidentally closed tab (Best one ever!)
9. crtl + tab = tab through tabs
10. crtl + shift + tab = tab backwards through tabs

Bonus for Delicious Extension users:

⌘ + Shift + . = pulls delicious page if you have delicious firefox extension installed

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Introducing Chit – the only Cheat Sheet you’ve ever need

Jun 21 2008 Published by under English,Mac,OS X,Ruby

It was yesterday, one news in my GitHub feeds which really has got my attention:

defunkt started watching chit 1 hour ago

Who is defunkt anyway? Chris Wanstrath, the guy who sits behind ErrTheBlog, GitHub, FaceBox, Cheat and lots of other cool stuffs.

So, there has to have something really good in Chit! I took a quick look into it and found Chit is really Awesome!

Chit

Chit is a command line cheat sheet utility based on git.

AUTHOR: Robin Lu. Thank you, Robin!

FEATURES:

Chit was inspired by ‘cheat’ by Chris Wanstrath. You can use chit to access and manage your cheat sheets easily.

There are several differences between ‘cheat’ and ‘chit’. By using chit, besides the wonderful features of ‘cheat’, you get:

1. Git powered cheat sheet repository. You can specify where you get the sheets and where to share them.
2. Your own private cheat sheets. Everybody has some project related or smoe cheat sheets which are not mean to public. You can also put them into chit
3. Directory support. You can group cheat sheets by directory now.
4. One less letter to type.

REQUIREMENTS:

rubygems (You already have, don’t you?!), git (sudo gem install git) and hoe (sudo gem install hoe)

INSTALL:

sudo gem install robin-chit -s http://gems.github.com

USAGE:

To get a feeling about chit:

$ chit chit

To get a cheat sheet:

$ chit [cheatsheet]

If it does not exist, a new one will be created and waiting for your editing. Leave it blank and quit the editor if you don’t want to add a new one.

To edit a cheat sheet, use the—edit switch.

$ chit [cheatsheet] –edit

To add a cheat sheet, use the—add switch.

$ chit [cheatsheet] –add

During editing a cheat sheet, empty the content will get the cheat sheet removed.

A prefix ’@’ indicates the cheat sheet is in private mode. A private cheat sheet is kept in another repository.

To get a private cheat sheet:

$ chit @[cheatsheet]

The prefix ’@’ works the same for both—edit and—add.

The cheat sheet can be in a path. For example:

$ chit mysql/select

will get the cheat sheet ‘select’ under mysql.

To show all the cheat sheets:

$ chit [all|sheets]

To show all the private cheat sheets:

$ chit @[all|sheets]

To search cheat sheets begin with ‘name’, use the—search/-s switch

$ chit name -s

SHARE:

Thanks git, shareing cheat sheets has never been such easier.

After the first time running chit, chit will create 2 local git repositories:

  • ~/.chit/main, which will pull out the default cheat sheets repository from http://github.com/robin/chitsheet
  • ~/.chit/private, which will be empty and wait for you to fill it out all your private goodies

After that, they are all yours. You can use git to do all the fancy things: push to a shared server for your team, push to github repo share with us, pull from some other shared place…

WANT TO KNOW MORE:

Chit GitHub Repository

Chit GitHub Wiki – Most of this post is copied from here.

chit – 基于git的cheat sheets工具 – Only if you can read Chinese

chit – cheat sheetsnowa forked chit and added custom repository config support – It was wrote in Chinese too.

Cheat + Git = ChitChris Wanstrath @ GitHub

WHAT’S NEXT?

Chit and share your sheets!

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How Obama reinvented campaign finance

Jun 20 2008 Published by under English

How Obama reinvented campaign finance, originally uploaded by dgray_xplane.

So, social networks can help you make real good money.

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Mondrianum gets a update!

Jun 19 2008 Published by under English,Mac,OS X

Mondrianum is one of my favorite color pickers on Mac OS X, as it brings all the goodies from Adobe® kuler, the best color themes sharing community!

The last version of Mondrianum, 1.0b5 had exired on June 14, even it is still a freeware now. So two authors did a quick update and sent an apology out, which I think is great.

You can download the latest version from their site, and this version could be used until Sep. 30, 2008. I believe they will release another before that day.

The most interested part for me is not the post or software itself, it is the comment! One of the visitors left a comment said “I love your product and what you are doing… For the heck of it I slightly edited your statement to make the english flow a little more ‘natively.’”

What a lovely reader! I wish I could have some of them too!

Anyway, before they could update the post, I did a quick diff on them:

So, my dear readers, if you find anything wrong in my posts, please leave a comment. I would love to fix it!

Thanks! :)

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How to keep your subscriber on the mailing list

Jun 18 2008 Published by under English,Software

Microsoft’s ’500′ way:

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3 Million and still counting – Firefox 3 Download Day

Jun 17 2008 Published by under English,Software,Toronto

Download Day

Download Day - English

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Using Zoomii to find your books on Amazon

Jun 15 2008 Published by under English,Software,Toronto

I’ve noticed Zoomii from the time Chris Thiessen did his presentation on Democamp 14. It was so impress and inspiration!

As Chris said, “Zoomii” is the closest the one which gives you the shopping experience like a real bookstore. Which I think is true. Take a minute on watching the video he created, I believe you will agree with me too.

Something else you might interested in:

  • Chris has built this totally on his owner using Java and JavaScript.
  • Chris has built this from zero. By zero, I mean he even built the web server for this instead of using Tomcat or others. I’ve asked him why, he said it was not that hard to create a web server and he only implemented what he really want, so the performance is pretty good.

Anyway, Zoomii is pre-open now, give it a try and you will like it. :)

Some updates:

Chris Thiessen – “Post-Launch Blog Posts

StartupNorth – “Zoomii – Book Browsing” – Jonas Brandon

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LearnHub & The Mullet Strategy

Jun 11 2008 Published by under English,Ruby,Toronto

John just posted a new article: LearnHub & The Mullet Strategy

I think it is hilarious!

Version 2 of the LearnHub homepage got out the door today, and was covered by TechCrunch: LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network. With this we’ve crystilized our homepage strategy around everyone’s favorite hairstyle, The Mullet

I first heard the term used in this way in an article about The HuffingtonPost in the New Yorker: Out of Print. The term caught my eye because it was funny, memorable, and accurately describes our project.

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