A weblog about TextMate, the Universe, and Everything
A wonderful video that will be of great interest to mac developers is circulated online. It’s a 2.5 hour long discussion between some of the best independent mac programmers, including the creators of Quicksilver, VoodooPad, Fire, Delicious Library and NetNewsWire. It’s a relatively large download, about half a gig, but definitely worth it. It’s released under a Create Commons Licence, which will make Sameer very happy.
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It’s time to once again rave about my all time favorite editor TextMate. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s how TextMate looks like when I have my thesis project open:
First of all, notice the wonderful coloring scheme. It is fully customizable through the Preferences menu, and there are lots of custom themes made by users. Now look closer. You will notice that the window is slightly transparent! You can adjust the transparency level as you see fit, or disable it altogether.
Take a look at the bottom line the document, full with wonderful information. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday I had the great pleasure of watching the Shakespeare play “Measure for measure”, presented by Illinois Wesleyan’s School of Theatre Arts. It was directed by my good friend Tom Quinn, and it was truly a wonderful experience. Surprisingly enough I understood more than I expected to, and the actors (all undergraduates) did a really excellent job. This is the second play I am seeing produced by our School of Theater Arts, and I must say they are doing a wonderful job so far. Keep it up guys!
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Here’s a wonderful little app called PDFLab that does an excellent job manipulating PDF files and doing all sorts of useful things with them. I used it to merge together a bunch of 1-page PDF files, for easy two-sided printing.
Here’s my new favorite way for flipping a coin: In a command line, type:
echo "`date "+%S"`%2" | bc
and press enter, or even better, from a file in TextMate, type this in a line and press Control-R.
What’ s your favorite way?
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