http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/ 2010-06-01T09:17:39-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/ http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-02-10T15:39:37-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/actionscript_arrays?rev=1265834377&do=diff An ActionScript array reference, for Python programmers. ActionScript arrays are widely known to be insane. I have written this short reference in hopes it will help me maintain sanity when I deal with these contrivances. extend >>> x = ["a", "b"] >>> x.extend([1, 2]) >>> x ["a", "b", 1, 2] Alternatives: concat, push.apply. text/html 2010-03-20T23:09:20-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/cookies?rev=1269140960&do=diff Preheat oven to 325ºf. Sift together: * 2 cups flour * 1 tsp. baking soda * 1 tsp cinnamon * 1 tsp. cloves * 1 tsp ginger * 1/4 tsp. salt Cream together: * 3/4 cup shortening (or margerine) * 1 cup white sugar Beat in: * 1 egg * 1/4 cup molasses * Beat until light and fluffy. * Stir in dry ingredients. Shape into small balls and place on greased baking sheet about 2” apart. * Bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown (alternately, 350º for 10 minutes). text/html 2009-06-13T17:41:58-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/doodle?rev=1244929318&do=diff text/html 2010-01-18T10:28:14-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/eclipse_makes_me_cry?rev=1263828494&do=diff Every day I use Eclipse+FlexBuilder, I feel like a small part of me dies inside. Here is a short list of things which fairly consistently make me cry: * There is no keyboard shortcut for 'open project' * The keyboard shortcuts for compare/diff view are terrible * It has no mechanism for skinning * The context-insensitive text completion leave more than a little bit to be desired (eg, backwards completion, a list of completions) * There is no keyboard shortcut for "move to the editor … text/html 2010-02-23T19:37:15-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/hg-merge-diff?rev=1266971835&do=diff moved to <http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MergediffExtension> text/html 2010-02-10T10:52:52-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/home?rev=1265817172&do=diff Welcome to my Wiki! For now I'm just going to post links to things that are already on wolever.net somewhere, but I will expand on this later... I promise. About Me David Wolever, programmer. I write primarily in Python, Flash+Flex for work and learning Erlang for fun. text/html 2009-11-06T10:08:27-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/mac_software?rev=1257520107&do=diff Please note, all software (but SideTrack) on this list is 100% free Must Have * QuickSilver - QuickSilver is, by far, the most useful piece of software I have found. It lets you launch apps with ease, get names and e-mails from your address book, solve math equations... The list goes on. text/html 2009-11-06T10:09:24-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/mercurial_and_eclipse?rev=1257520164&do=diff This assumes that you have Mercurial installed. If not, see Mercurial with public key authentication. Note: this also assumes Eclipse 3.0/Flex Builder. For Eclipse 3.4, see the official installation instructions. Installing MercurialEclipse Start up Eclipse and click Help, Software Updates, Find and Install: text/html 2009-12-02T10:09:11-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/mercurial_with_public_key_authentication?rev=1259766551&do=diff (note: this does not cover the server-side setup... See SharedSSH for more information – look especially at the hg-ssh script) Install TortoiseHG Grab the most recent version of TortoiseHG from <http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/downloads/> (the file should be named TortoiseHg-0.7.6-hg-1.2.1.exe or similar). text/html 2010-01-12T00:38:13-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/new_server?rev=1263274693&do=diff * Consciously setup syslog and logrotate * Some mechanism for blocking misbehaving hosts based on logs * NTP! * Set relatime mount flag * Proper filesystem segregation and quotas * tmp, var, home on different parittions * All config files under version control text/html 2007-07-21T20:09:07-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/old_bits?rev=1185062947&do=diff David * Intel with P4 2.4, no heat sink * A couple really old ones David * One newish one, a few old ones David * An assortment of DDR RAM, some slow, some fastish * A bit of really old RAM David * 10+ disks < 1gb, some work too! * A couple bigger ones might be free text/html 2010-03-12T08:23:08-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/picture_frame?rev=1268400188&do=diff Like many other people, I have wanted to hang a laptop on my wall for quite some time now. Well, this dream recently became a reality! After inheriting an old laptop with a high-quality screen, I went to work to do my custom essay writing and custom essay papers. text/html 2010-03-02T12:26:19-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/pycon-notes?rev=1267550779&do=diff ehcache zookeeper Slony Londiste WAL shippin Tungsten Cassandra HBase Voldemort Hypertable Riak Bigtable paper Dynamo paper high scalability blog <http://about.digg.com/blog/looking-future-cassandra> radiocity/raytrace Renderman => 3d light Yafaray Mantra Other online rendering services? Arnold houdini mantra Look at getting a box with an OpenGL card <http://www.studiorola.com/tutorials/rendering-tutorials/product-rendering-using-yafray-via-blender-3d/> Hosted 3D services? text/html 2007-01-20T02:54:44-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/start?rev=1169279684&do=diff home<strong>You will be redirected to in approximately 10 seconds.</strong><script>url="/~wolever/wiki/home";setTimeout("location.href=url",10000);</script> text/html 2009-12-17T22:32:28-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/swfutil?rev=1261107148&do=diff Download swfdump.jar, along with my patched swfutils.jar: swfdump-8083-patched.zip This is the patch, taken against <http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/tags/3.3.0.4852> revision 8083: Index: modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tools/AbcPrinter.java =================================================================== --- modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tools/AbcPrinter.java (revision 8083) +++ modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tools/AbcPrinter.java (working copy) … text/html 2009-11-06T10:08:24-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/tortoisesvn_howto?rev=1257520104&do=diff This is a draft Tortoise SVN can be downloaded from <http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/>. The installation is fairly self-explanatory. Find somewhere to put the files where they wont be deleted. A good location would be C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Windows Account> text/html 2009-02-11T10:15:55-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/unicode_audit?rev=1234365355&do=diff At the moment, it seems like “proper” internationalization is out of scope for the summer. This is largely because most of the CSS will need to be redesigned to support right-to-left languages. For now, the the goal of this summer is to make sure that The Doctor won't crash and burn if UTF-8 is crammed in every conceivable orifice. text/html 2010-02-02T22:59:46-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/vim-logging?rev=1265169586&do=diff Instead of spending my time speculating about which Vim commands I use most frequently, I decided to hack together a patch which will record every command issued. Changelog New in rc2: * If vim is being run as root and the SUDO_UID and SUDO_GID environment variables are set, the cmdlog file will be appropriately chowned. * Macro evaluations are no longer logged (eg, if register a contains ywwp, 10@a will be logged, but the ten repetitions of ywwp will not). * Timestamps are now logg… text/html 2008-10-18T01:25:18-04:00 http://wolever.net/~wolever/wiki/vim_commands?rev=1224307518&do=diff Vim commands which I use with my vimrc (WARNING: right and left WON'T WORK! Learn to use h, j, k, l -- after about 15 minutes you'll be just as fast). Window Commands :new, :vnew: Open a new window C-[hjkl]: Move window {left, down, up, right} C-<Space>: Maximize current window C-w <Shift>-[HJKL]: Move current window to {left, top, bottom, right}