11.29.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:55 pm by Haris
Recently I had the good fortune to visit once again a great chocolate store in Chicago named bon bon. I highly recommend it to everyone. They have an extensive collection of chocolates with the most unimaginable and interesting combinations of spices, from chili to anise to cardamom to green tea leaves. And they look amazing. If you do go, you absolutely have to try their hot chocolates, made by directly melting the same couverture used for their chocolates, optionally adding a lot of spices.
This is what they have to say for themselves:
Run by a free-spirited mother-and-daughter team, ‘bon bon’ elevates the art of chocolate to new levels. Fusing unexpected flavors like rose petals, Chai tea and Ancho chili with chocolate, and then transforming them into distinctive designs such as King Tut, Buddha and the Kama Sutra, Bon Bon has definitely set itself apart from all other chocolate shops.
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11.27.05
Posted in html/css, TextMate at 11:53 pm by Haris
Textmate never ceases to amaze me. This time I was editing an html file, and I used the internal html preview window that it has, and then I left the window open. The miracle that occurred is that as I continued editing, the preview window was automatically updated instantly! Without me even having to save the file! As I was typing! It’s those little touches that make me love it!
Edited to add: I just found out a tip from Tim Door for a great snippet. Just use the following lines for the snippet:
//-${1/(.)|(?m:\n.*)/(?1:-)/g}
// ${1:${TM_SELECTED_TEXT:Comment}}
//-${1/(.)|(?m:\n.*)/(?1:-)/g}
I wish I could show you in a movie what this does, but I can’t. Basically, when activated, it will create three lines:
//--------
// Comment
//--------
And as you edit the Comment part, the length of the dashes increases to match exactly the length of your comment. It’s awesome! Now if only I could figure out how it works…
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11.26.05
Posted in TextMate, LaTeX at 10:33 pm by Haris
I just took my first steps in Ruby by improving on one of the LaTeX commands in TextMate. It’s the command used for creating environments, or it can also be used for plain commands. The way it works is as follows: Suppose the current word, or selection, is name. Then, upon executing the command (current shortcut is Ctrl-<), depending on what name is the current word or selection will be replaced by:
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Posted in html/css, Gregarius at 12:16 am by Haris
I recently started helping out as much as I can with the development of Gregarius, a very neat open source feed aggregator which I use on a daily basis, so I figured I might as well help out with it, and learn some AJAX technology along the way. It is after all where I get all my news from. My first contribution was to put together a piece of code that the other developers had around, whose purpose was to create a button that would hide or show the feeds side bar. I’m happy to say that the plugin is now completed, and you can find it at the plugin repository.
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11.15.05
Posted in Mac OS X, computers at 2:48 pm by Haris
Here’s a pretty good list of open source software for the mac.
Sameer will be very happy about those too (though he probably already knows about most of them). There’s definitely a lot of positive things to be said about open source projects, but I’m probably not the one to comment on that very much. A very interesting read is Neal Stephenson’s little article titled In the Beginning was the Command Line. This is a wonderful read that makes a lot of interesting points. One of these points is that software companies have in effect managed to sell us a series of 0,1 bits, and one could argue how something like that could ever be possible.
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