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SmartMarkUp javascript textarea editor looks very nice. Usually these are too cluttered, and try to be way too clever, for my taste. I like the HTML mode on this one, where it actually sticks in the HTML tag when you click the associated button, rather than trying to display the result of the tag in the editor. Like it's not trying to be for complete idiots. Still I'm not sure this kind of thing is necessary (can't people remember the tag for bold?) but I might give this one a try.
Drew Diller's blog: Fixing IE one band aid at a time. Impressive. I used his dd_roundies.js script recently to get rounded corners in an HTML document even in border-radius eschewing IE.
All I want for Christmas is a Fusion IO 320GB solid state PCI-E disk drive. The numbers here are just insane, with the Fusion IO crushing an 8 disk 15K.6 15,000 RPM SAS RAID 0 array on an Areca controller (which is itself a complete fantasy setup no one would ever run!) These new SSDs really change the game. Too bad the 80GB is $3000 and the 320GB is $14,400 with a 640GB card (drive?) on the way.
Google's Native Client plugin "allows web applications to securely run native code on the underlying platform." Works with all major platforms and browsers. Not ready for prime time yet, but that's pretty interesting stuff. The difference between code running locally and code running "out there" is getting smaller and smaller.
[Updated: changed the command slightly and added stuff about directories]
For my own reference, this is one way to change every file in the current directory (and below) to 644 permissions:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0644
And to change all directories in the current directory (and below) to 755 permissions:
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0755
And to delete all files in the current directory (and below) older than (say) 5 days:
find . -mtime +5 -print0 | xargs -0 rm
And to delete all empty directories in the current directory (and below):
find . -type d -empty -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir
We bought these Espia office chairs in white. We had no chance to try them out before hand, but took a chance on them anyway. And it turned out okay! They look pretty good I think, and they are quite comfortable. Maybe not quite Aeron level adjustable, but they're only $250. It's really hard to find anything that cheap so I'm giving these my thumbs up.
Motorola to bet on Android. If you've ever used a Razr I think you'll agree that farming out the UI and system software doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Here's a great guide to CSS design for people who aren't, and don't want to be, web designers. Very well done. Wow.
Brain works best at age 39. Oh no! Only a few months left!
Of course, as one slashdot comment points out:
... they base their result on a sample of 72 persons within an age range from 23 to 80.Still it's funny because I was talking about something similar last night. Must finish my project soon...
Science at its best.
Jobs made an unusual appearance on Apple's quarterly earnings report conference call yesterday. Here's part of what he said about the phenomenal iPhone sales numbers:
I would like to now highlight two remarkable milestones resulting from iPhone’s outstanding performance last quarter. The first is that Apple beat RIM. In their most recent quarter, Research in Motion, or RIM, reported selling 6.1 million BlackBerry devices. Compared to our most recent quarter sales of 6.9 million iPhones, Apple outsold RIM last quarter and this is a milestone for us. RIM is a good company that makes good products and so it is surprising that after only 15 months in the market, we could outsell them in any quarter.Although they've made a few decisions I personally disagree with (about openness to 3rd party developers mainly,) it's hard to argue with the success. When Jobs initially said the goal was to sell 10 million iPhones this year a lot of people thought he was insane. But they sold 6.9 million just last quarter alone. Pretty impressive.
But even more remarkable is this — measured by revenues, Apple has become the world’s third-largest mobile phone supplier. I know this sounds crazy, but it’s true — as measured in revenues, not units, Apple has become the third largest mobile phone supplier. Let’s look at the ranking — Nokia is clearly number one at 12.7 billion; Samsung number two at 5.9 billion; Apple is number three at 4.6 billion; Sony Ericsson, number four at 4.2; LG, number five at 3.4 billion; Motorola, number six at 3.2; and RIM number seven at 2.1. Pretty amazing.