In the sidebar here is linkto, a thing I wrote a while ago to clean up pasted links. I’ve written a new version that pops up in any page, puts the currently selected text (if any) into the input area, and you can then either see the link (for right-click save-as), go to the link, or cancel to remove the box from your page.
Drag this link to your bookmark bar to get started: linkto.
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C++ doesn’t have real pretty introspection capabilities yet, so sometimes you’re stuck rolling your own stuff that kinda sucks. For example, here’s the most convenient method I was able to find to do runtime iteration of all the classes that implement a particular API. As a bonus, you don’t need to add these classes to any header file to work, you just need to implement the class then add AUTO_REGISTER_BASE(classname) to the end of the implementation file.
Update: Here’s a typo-corrected version, along with a more interesting (template function) factory method.
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No idea what the heck happened to Visual Studio .NET 2003. Things were fine last week, now undo and redo are broken. They’re disabled on the menu and the hotkeys don’t have any effect. Happens on all projects.
Anybody have a suggestion?
Update: huh. fixed itself, after three days of closing and restarting, rebooting, etc. Weird.
Here are the things i like about the Winter Olympics:
For things I don’t like about the Winter Olympics, let’s start with: “Women are too fragile for ski jumping“, add a dash of “it’s just a bunch of boring Northern Europeans” (plus the damn Norwegians and Germans seem to win everything, while my Swedish pals go home nearly emptyhanded—though, kudos on the hockey upset…). Then add the fact too many of the events (including the signature figure skating and all the new “EXTREME” thingies) are judged events rather than real feats of competition. Give me wrestling, basketball, races. How many times can you watch someone do a 1080° jump in the half pipe and still be interested?
I’ve been doing some python webdev using this new web.py toolkit. It’s not bad, but I my host uses apache and apache + fastcgi (for now) means suck. So instead, we used SCGI:
What’s a microformat? Jesus, good luck figuring out from microformats.org. That’s the most useless description of a technology I’ve ever seen.
What is a microformat really? It’s a way of embedding structural information in the id and class attributes of xhtml to map back to an arbitrary xml standard. For example, you can embed vcard in xhtml with hcard. The advantages are twofold. One, the material is then viewable with a stock browser (styleable with css). Second, it can be embedded in other standards like atom that have specific profiles for embedding xhtml.
I just finished helping my wife and sister set up their online catalog, www.twohatchicks.com. They’re making and selling handmade hats and other crocheted items. They’re taking paypal and will ship anywhere in the US, so if you’re interested go send ‘em an email!
(Any fustiness in the site design is 100% my fault. Suggestions? post ‘em here or send email.)
