Dreamweaver CS3 Code Coloring
December 22nd, 2008 | 1 comment
There was a submission about “What makes a good programming font?” on HN today and, as usual, the comments on the submission proved more enlighting than the actual linked post (Hacker news has a great community). From the comments I came across some nice programming fonts; Envy Code R and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. The user who posted about the Vera Sans Mono font also added a picture of it in action here. I liked the syntax highlighting/code coloring of that code screenshot, so naturally I set out to try out something similar with dreamweaver and TextPad. I have to…
msgme: “Exception Error” with external app
December 18th, 2008
The other day I decided to play around with the Msgme SMS platform. My goal was to create a application that lets my wife record the number of hours she works. She just needs something very simple. So my idea was to make a little app that lets her use her cell phone or web browser to indicate start and stop times of when she is working. I was going to tie in the Msgme SMS service to allow her to text “timeStart” or “timeStop”. Msgme allows you to set up keywords that are tied to their SMS number. Then…
A similar story
December 11th, 2008
I came across a story from a fellow in Singapore who dropped his iPhone. His account of breaking the phone read nearly identical to mine. I wonder how many other people are breaking their iPhones as a result of dropping them in restaurants and having the glass hit the table leg. It seems an unlikely event.
Google Talk gets SMS… again…
December 11th, 2008
A while back Google added SMS capabilities to the Google Talk client built into Gmail, but it was a bit buggy so they took it away. Yesterday they announced they again added the feature. The Google talk client in Gmail is getting more and more robust, especially with the addition of video chat a month ago. While all of the new features are really nice, it does leave me wishing that they would add them to the dedicated desktop app or at least to the pop out Gtalk client (which I could then wrap in an Adobe Air app or…